Commentary: If I were to write a letter to President Obama reference
the decimation his policies have had on business aviation and the
aviation vendor industry it would be stated as below.
Dear President Obama:
While
attending college I became fascinated with flying. My money earned
while working in factory jobs paid for flight training and college to
become a business aviation pilot. In a sense I assisted the aviation
community by circulating dollars so I may prosper and the industry may
grow.
Eventually I married, had three children and raised my
family successfully all due to having a life time career in aviation as a
business aviation pilot.
Within aviation one must flight train,
spend time in hotels while on business, purchase fuel for aircraft and
other expenditures that add to the survival of the aviation vendor
support industry. During my aviation career, to flight train and remain
current, I spent over three hundred (300) nights in the same hotel at
one training facility location throughout my career. This does not
include the other one hundred fifty (150) nights each year I was away
from family for employer work related business.
Govt aviation
contracts when sent to Mexico, Brazil, China and other countries
diminish my forty years of surviving the ups and downs of my aviation
career. You are taking away food and purchase power from a skilled work
force. You are circulating our aviation dollars to other countries. You
are driving a stake into the hearts and souls of those who are proud
Americans. Those who have sacrificed time away from family, strive to
reach professional excellence and came out on the other end of life
feeling a sense of pride and accomplishment. Your verbal and business
aviation policy attacks have negated the successes business aviation has
worked hard to achieve.
Aircraft manufacturers use vendors to build aircraft for final assembly. This means jobs and families survive and prosper at these vendor locations.
With
your admonishment of business aviation, taxation policies, demagoguery
of flying business jets, your non support of attending Las Vegas conventions
and along with business aviation expenditures you dislike is not
supporting our economy. Now you ask my industry to pay for government
budget miss management, government over spending, government FAA
regulatory intrusion and a special $100 flight tax is unacceptable to
everyday workers both skilled and unskilled.
Our standard of
living is reduced at each anti aviation statement made and our buying
power is being reduced. Mr. President those of us in business aviation
are hurting and our families are hurting.
The 8.5% unemployment
rate your administration states is fictitious and your administration
knows this. You have not counted those who's benefits have expired,
self-employed persons not working, contract workers, freelance pilots,
independent business owners who's customers have vanished.
The
aviation industry was founded in America. It is part of Americas fiber.
The industry is not asking for GM bailouts, pension saving government
gimmicks. The administration now admits taxpayers will lose $14 billion
in the auto bailout. The aviation industry does not require a government
bailout. Simply put, the aviation industry is asking you to support the
spirit and dreams of men and woman that made this industry great
through hard and smart work. We desire our jobs to return.
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