Delta pilot: $100,000 to $150,000 per year. Non-pilot Delta employee: $25,000 to $45,000 per year. Standing side by side with a pilot in the unemployment line: Priceless!

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Get over it: three words for the Delta pilots that will change their lives. All airline employees should be grateful for the jobs and benefits they do have instead of complaining about what they don’t have. If they stopped living in the past and would work together with a positive attitude, perhaps their once great airline could return to profitability. Being angry at management and fighting your company will take it to non-existence like Pan Am, Eastern, National and others. Let’s see, you are angry, bitter and resentful of past management and you are going to show them and get even. Think about it: they are all gone with their millions and living well. What you are doing is similar to YOU taking poison and waiting for THEM to die. If you strike, you will be taking yourselves and thousands of good Delta employees, retirees and others dependent on your company for their income, all down with you. Now, that will really show them, won’t it?

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Since the Delta pilots had their “practice strike” last week, I hope they also practiced eating out of trash cans, because that’s where we are ALL heading.

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My husband is in his forties and employed by Delta. He’s taken out student loans and has been pursuing another degree online for the past year in order to change careers. I have gone back to work. We’re sacrificing our family time and money to prepare for a future without Delta. If you’re unhappy with your job and feel you work harder and are not getting paid as much as the next guy, do something about it! I have no sympathy for those of you who blame others and make excuses for the choices YOU have made.

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I find that people who refer to the anti-immigration crowd as racists should do their research. Hispanic is a culture, not a race. There are only three races: Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid. People who come from Mexico, Central America, or South America are a mixture of these races. The indigenous Indians were Mongoloids that migrated into North America and South America. They mixed with the Spanish and other Europeans that conquered these continents, and the Africans that were brought in for slave labor. The Hispanic people are very diverse and cannot be lumped together as just one type. However, they are not an individual race. Maybe the anti-immigration crowd just want for the laws to be obeyed. If your facts are wrong, then your opinion is not worth anything.

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You don’t need to stick a fork in Sheriff Johnson because he is Dunn.

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The “At least I didn’t whip him” comment by our sheriff (talking about the finance director) was shocking. It shows someone in power who is either losing his temper or is arrogant about the proper use of his authority. But he has done some many favors for so long that he will weather this storm. The argument that if earlier commissioners didn’t challenge the sheriff, then Dunn is just a troublemaker, is nonsense. The earlier commissioners just didn’t have the stomach to challenge the sheriff. Dunn does. But Dunn isn’t doing this for the right reasons. His idea of fiscal conservatism is the Taj Mahal courthouse. He has bulked up a lawsuit budget, spending hundreds of thousands in bloated lawyer fees suing everyone else in Fayette County. Dunn is an ego maniac, yes. He wanted to be a one star; he incredibly wanted to be a congressman. But the fact that he is power hungry does not mean he isn’t right about the drug money. Randall and Bruce can’t give over an accounting because they know that it will show bad accounting and improper activities. Yes, the Corvette top was one of those drug money stories that we remember from way back when. “They say” our drug agents need to be confidential, but the real reason is to block the public from an accounting of these funds. Why? Because they can’t afford to let the public know. So, their best strategy is to trash on Dunn. Old Fayette will back Randall. Just look at who wrote a glowing review inside Bruce’s book: Dr. Sams. Look for Dunn to be painted as a pushy outsider and get beat. Randall is way too connected to lose this battle.

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When people stay in political offices too long it never fails that they grind inevitably into power struggles and often graft and favoritism. It doesn’t take long in the immediate Atlanta area as it is considered a right of passage, but in Fayette County it has taken many years. In order for a true democracy to work continually it is necessary that the officeholders serve a term or two and then get out. Otherwise inheritance of jobs is expected.

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So the Harmony Village residents aren’t so harmonious, huh? What a shock. But fire-bombing? And our wonderful police chief says he needs another nine heroes in order to effectively patrol neighborhoods. Hey, Chief, a suggestion: rearrange your priorities so that your boys are highly visible in the ghetto rather than double- and triple-teaming every car they stop for walking on a white line, hoping for a DUI or a drug bust. Oh, yeah, that would eat into revenue, wouldn’t it? I guess the reality is that this is and always has been the mayor’s top priority for PTC’s “finest.” Otherwise he’d have directed his chief to change his focus a long time ago.

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I saw the road repaving schedule for Peachtree City. Some of these streets do not require paving at this time. Take a look for yourself. I suppose this money is like the sheriff’s drug money: spend it now on one item or lose it? Spend it to keep our economy going. Or, maybe it is like the Iraq war money: don’t account for it in the budget, just add more after committed. Sell the notes to the Arabs and the Japanese.

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The fact that the movie theater in Fayetteville finally got so dirty and stinking that it made the front page of the local paper isn’t all of that story. Oh, it is all of the story as far as supposedly cleaning it up goes, but it brings up two other aspects: did it just get dirty one weekend and someone from the health department said, “Oh, there is a theater we hadn’t seen before,” or, didn’t they have a license to sell food. Even if they didn’t sell food, is it allowable to have a rat-infested germ hall where people pay to congregate? Also, ever notice that those so-called conservatives who pretend to not want any government intervention in business are the loudest yellers when something like this happens? Normally they would say, “People will quit going if it is dirty.” Kids don’t even know smells and dirt anymore, I’m afraid. They are dropped off and picked up.

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Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Reed, both a drag on their respective parties. We all know some Democrats are not as loony as Cynthia, but that does not keep the GOP from presenting her as the poster child for the Democratic Party. As long as she is off the intellectual reservation, anything she does will only drive more people toward the GOP. Her primary faults are arrogance, blaming everyone except herself, and demonizing her opponents. Sound like someone else? Like Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Reed may not have committed a crime. However, every time he tries to explain his actions, he only puts more of his foot in his mouth. He did not know where the millions of dollars came from. He did not know his friends would commit crimes that would send them to jail for six years. To moderates in the middle this just sounds just like the kind of excuses Cynthia is offering. For the good of both parties they need to resign and let honest people take over.

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After watching high school baseball in Fayette and Coweta counties and around Atlanta, one thing is obvious: the feeder programs in PTC aren’t very good. Kids come up through the PTC Little League system that have no clue on the fundamentals and strategy of the game. The kids that want to play the game at anywhere above a basic level are being shortchanged by the PTC Rec. Department and forced to find other programs and facilities to suit their needs. Look at the rosters of local high schools and see where the real ballplayers come from: travel ball programs and private facilities like Home Plate and The Dugout Club. Why are we forcing the most dedicated and highest performing players out of town? By the way, these well-rounded kids also tend to be very strong students and peer leaders, so you “anti-athletics” folks can take your opinions and your wussies-in-training somewhere else. Offering recreational sports is a fantastic idea and should be available to all that want to play. However, don’t force everyone into the same mold; let the sky be the limit for those who want to shoot for the stars (or at least launch a screamer in the gap for a stand-up double!).

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Eric Maxwell running a clean campaign? Ha! It’ll never happen. Look at the string of campaign abuses he has been involved in. Like the residency flap with his buddy Rick Viall. What does he do as soon as declares? He takes a cheap shot at the commissioners. No, don’t expect Maxwell to anything different from any other garden variety slimy lawyer/politician.

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It is time to stop all of the foolishness at the government of the United States such as the show that the Senate put on last week about immigration (pretending to have a hard-worked-out bill, knowing they had nothing) and do a lot of things quickly: Change the party in power in November, it must be done; reinstate the military draft without any exceptions, even medical ones; man our entire border, all around using the best technology; fine and incarcerate any employer hiring an illegal person who will eliminate their jobs and they will go home and re-file (if they aren’t listed in Washington as legal by SS number, then they are illegal); drop all of the red tape health issues for doctors and medicine and issue medical cards; set administrators, doctors, etc., costs for public doctors; allow private doctors who can only take private money no insurance money; get the heck out of the Middle East and tell them to stick their oil; elect Hillary as soon as possible.

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Has anyone except me noticed the mad rush to create jobs in the institutions paid by tax dollars, yours and my dollars, and of course some of theirs? Want to know why? Because the so-called “service jobs” (jobs that don’t produce a product to sell other than money) are about full. There is no where to turn except the tax dole to create new jobs. Manufacturing is now a smaller part of our economy. We have gone from a farming economy, to a manufacturing economy, to a “service” economy, and now we are going down the slope of a tax economy. Europe went through all this over 1,000 years; we learned how in 250 years. It is a way of redistributing wealth for most people without producing something for it. Just look at our local head counts over the last 20 years. It no longer is acceptable just to keep up with inflation, we must add 10-20 percent more to the tax payrolls every year or so. The saddest part however is the culture created in these institutions: it is worse than Delta and General Motors. Go to any extreme to continue the culture until bankruptcy.

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