Comments by "Taxi Rob" (@taxirob2248) on "Mentour Now!" channel.

  1. Next episode: Who will take over the whistleblower assassination department?
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  2. Iran misidentified a plane leaving their own airport, which just happened to be from a state that is an enemy of their largest weapons buyer... ok, sure, whatever
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  3. if it is privatized, then the union is exempt from Taft-Hartley provisions against government employee strikes. Jussayin.
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  4. The US isn't Canada though, just ask any right winger why we don't have single payer healthcare in the US and they'll gladly remind you of that.
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  5. Correlation isn't causation. Mean wages were rising before he took office.
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  6.  @larrydugan1441  you just tipped your hand. You have nothing at all to say about it, because you don't know what you're talking about.
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  7.  @larrydugan1441  healthcare as an employee benefit is an input cost for their employers, so it is very relevant when we are talking about privatization as current government employee plans are better than most private ones. And what's wrong with healthcare in Canada exactly? Got some anecdotal long wait time stories for us? I can find just as many about Americans with private insurance, including people I know personally.
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  8. we're already operating under the NAFTA replacement that HE negotiated, so what was the point of threatening Mexico and Canada? P.S. you should read what the president of Mexico said about their interaction, it's completely different from what Trump tweeted out.
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  9.  @davidbondy2250  it also doesn't guarantee she will remain pro-labor. She could just be another grifter. She said she supported the PRO Act, but it was passed before she got into the House, and she only served one term.
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  10.  @JC-PSC  the entire Canadian business environment is different. We don't have NHS down here in the US, so employees often have to choose between decent wages OR good benefits. If the ATC union is broken, they're screwed.
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  11. I sense he has something else entirely in mind
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  12. So do I.
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  13. I remember the first time he was in office, he said he wanted to do something about the way navigation works in terms of actual hardware. That would be cool if it worked, it would reduce the workload of both pilots and controllers, at least theoretically. Sometimes I watch your accident analysis videos and I'm dumbfounded by how many different systems in the plane AND on the ground that a crew has to interact with during a typical flight.
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  14.  @richardditchburn3853  but it happens in the US too, so all complaints about it are meaningless. Privatization goons insist we have it better down here, and it is certainly NOT the case. Hospitals only have so much capacity, period. That is true in the US, Canada, China or Somalia. And down here, doctors in private practice or specialized fields will only see you if you have THEIR insurance. That creates artificial wait times.
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  15. Tupelov has a couple proven designs but nobody wants to do business with Russia
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  16. Thanos wasn't wrong tho
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  17.  @vividthespis  the topic is privatization, and it's not something you can wave a magic wand and have happen over night like childish "libertarians" think it is. The unions can strike the moment it happens, since they will no longer be public employees. So, benefits better be top notch: that means they will be FAR more expensive than they are in countries with single payer healthcare.
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  18. that's not what killed MD though
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  19. and he hasn't even met his own contract requirements. Moreover, he's announced a new hypersonic suborbital passenger plane... SABRE, anyone?
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  20.  @sayorancode  no, the hybrid ramjet-engined hypersonic plane that's been in development for a couple decades now. I believe Reaction Engines is working on it, but there is no commercial demand for it. So, once again Musk is trying to invent something that's already been invented.
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  21.  @andrasbiro3007  you lose all credibility when you talk about Hyperloop like it's a real thing. Furthermore, Musk is also talking about a hypersonic high altitude plane that would make using Starship for passenger service completely irrelevant, not that it ever was relevant or viable to begin with.
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  22. better than $55B for... you know... that one guy...
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  23. it's mercantilism bro, wasn't that in your Econ books?
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  24.  @unconnectedbedna  Keynesian vs. reactionary populist trade policy in a nutshell
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  25.  @Hugh3rd  you make a good point about healthcare, but for some reason I got attacked for making the same point in regards to privatization of ATC. Single payer healthcare helps all businesses by leveling the playing field when it comes to employer funded benefits.
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  26.  @rapunzel1701  you respond with projection, how sadly predictable
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  27. Boeing can spin off its military aircraft production as a separate division if it comes down to that. Maybe they can bring back MD as a brand name, too? Either way, what matters relative to government contracts is who OWNS our military suppliers, not where their ancillary facilities are located. In the early 80s, AMC had to spin off AM General to keep their joint venture with Renault because it involved a stock swap.
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  28. angry retort followed by strawman!
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  29. I'm in construction, wanna guess where a big share of our engineered wood products and sheetrock come from?
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  30.  @dinkobg6831  everyone but you seems to understand that it doesn't work. Did you ever stop to think about all the products we get from China, and how many YEARS it would take to ramp up production in the US to replace them? Or, why we get stuff from China in the first place? Any idea how much those same products will cost when built at a US living wage? Because there won't be any immigrants to do the work according to Trump, and so the workers will be able to name their price. $100,000 economy cars, $10,000 refrigerators, etc.
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  31.  @tomriley5790  bingo
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  32. if you like dirty air and water, move to China.
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  33.  @johannes6721  OR have they actually changed their habits?
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  34. You can try to hide from politics, but it knows exactly where you are.
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  35. Sane and rational people don't vote for rapists, you can console yourself about that however you like.
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  36.  @NormAppleton  well I'm HERE, aren't I?
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  37.  @DaD8801  Trump touches a lot of things he shouldn't...
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  38.  @ChrisFarrell  I think the time for tariffs passed when a Republican president established trade with Red China in the first place. If we ever wanted to use them to enforce human rights in their country, we totally blew it. Otherwise it's all sour grapes, an admission that the US is failing at making stuff.
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  39.  @Seriously_Unserious  you can't protect something that does not exist. Did you even read my prior comment? I pretty clearly explained why it won't work and you're an idiot for believing it will.
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  40.  @Seriously_Unserious  you can't protect something that doesn't exist.
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  41.  @Hugh3rd  please read ALL my comments. The USA is not Europe or Canada. I explained why the USA is different.
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  42.  @SonicCommenter  hey dumbass, the US has already lived through this, if you weren't a complete idiot maybe you could Google it. The OLD union was broken up SPECIFICALLY because they went on strike, and the Supreme Court ruled that they couldn't BECAUSE they were government employees, IDIOT.
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  43.  @SonicCommenter  pretending you know how US labor laws work is adorable, fucko
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  44.  @SonicCommenter  It's almost like you paid no attention to the railroad strike here in the US. And since you didn't, I should point out that the workers got what they demanded.
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  45. so he's not a Republican?
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  46.  @anonymousanonymous-ok3nn  yeah that won't work at all. Good luck though.
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  47. you lost me at "Americans hate the FAA." You got a source for that?
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  48. PLEASE stop with the hydrogen propaganda already. While fuel cells are great for large scale prime movers and fixed structures, hydrogen as a flammable fuel is a bad idea for everyone involved. Not only will end users incinerate themselves, but extraction, compression and storage of hydrogen is a series of accidental mini nukes waiting to happen. It won't be H2 users blowing themselves up, it will be whole communities feeling he effect s of general Western stupidity.
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  49. if traffic control is privatized, then the unions are allowed to strike. They will no longer be government employees.
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  50. hypersonic will never be a thing, and AICC was in a deal with Antonov to build a second AN-225
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