Originally posted by Woundsinger

We had asked for the USA assistance long before this but at that moment in history it was not in the USA’s best interest..
So we fought on largely alone..

If I’m not mistaken the US Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act about the time of the Battle of Britain allowing $7 billion of weapons and supplies to Britain. Not enough for ya? Remember that $7 Billion of weapons in 1940’s dollars.

I don’t know what you attempted to accomplish by bashing the US involvement in WW2. Considering it was a war that never took place in the USA, wasn’t within 1000’s of miles of our homes for the most part, we did quite a bit.

Or we can turn it around? Where was Britian when Poland was invaded? How about France and they are only a Channel away?

Not much accomplished by that is there? Second guessing the actions of old men 60 years ago does nothing. Bashing a country now for it does even less. Grow up!

The Fat Cat’s are still getting fatter. The bonuses are still there but not as big. If you’re putting 30% of your employees on the street, there shouldn’t be any bonus for anyone.

Great collection of links. Thanks for sharing.

(that movie is great:D )

Now that is one LOUD livery.

Re: Bagdad’s airport looted

Originally posted by Hand87_5
the allied troops looted and trashed

Last time I checked the US isn’t the only “allied” force. The Allies won WWII so I guess if you want you can give us the entire credit for that too. :rolleyes:

The highest paid in the US is a 777 captain at Delta at roughly $319 US per hour for a 12 year captain in 2004. Now it’s tough to say what someone’s salary is at a particular pay rate as there are many other factors that determine how much someone’s annual salary will be. A rule of thumb is you take the hourly pay rate and multiply it by 1000. That puts the Delta 777 captain at about $319,000 a year.

At the other end of the pay scale a EMB-145 or CRJ First Officer can be found making $18,000 US a year. Quite a difference. The small jet operators can have their captains making $45,000 a year or less.

Before airline deregulation here in the US back in the 1970’s an airline captain could afford to buy a new Cadillac every month. That would be similar to a captain making $40,000 a month or nearly $500,000 a year today. That doesn’t happen at all.