OUT GO THE FIRST CLASS/BUSINESS CLASS SEATS

There is no question airlines see the future a lot differently than those idiot optimists who are trying to tell us the worst is over and good times are just around the corner. Not only are they parking up planes by the ship load, they are gutting the ones still remaining in service to make them all “cattle” class. Just like we now do for domestic flights, filling up on Starbucks and McDonalds before we take our seats, international travelers will board long haul flights with a lunch box (if it passes security screening) of home made sandwiches! Anyone weighing over 200lbs will have to pay for an upgrade for two, possibly three seats to provide comfort for those around him.

Yes, thanks to this global recession perpetrated by Wall Street and China’s rise as a world power, the world has moved to the lowest common denominator. Once we used to laugh at third world countries with their domestic fleet of ancient dilapidated old aircraft, with natives herded into the mains cabin to be seated like sardines in a can and come 2009, Americans will be treated no differently. Yes, we have come a long way from those pre World War Two Pan Am Clipper Class seaplanes where the entire meal was prepared on board and every passenger was waited upon and treated as royalty. Mind you in those days the waiters were called Flight Hostesses. Today we know them as Cabin Attendants!

We will just have to get used to the fact this country is downsizing and downsizing means so many things we took as granted, like the option to fly better than coach class has been taken away from us. I happen to like a 500 horse power V8 under my hood, but if Pelosi gets her way, within five years we will be just like those poor miserable inhabitants of France driving around in Peugeot, Citroen, Renault and Mercedes Benz two seater A Cars or more likely foreign-made electric golf carts. Just like the wealthy women of New York a few years back had to stop wearing their fur coats for fear of being attacked by paint bombers, I suppose I will have to get used to the risk of those loony greenies vandalizing my American-made “gas guzzling” Pontiac G8 as Pelosi, Barney Frank and their smoked salmon socialist buddies outlaw what was part of my American dream; to be able to drive a car with some grunt!

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