Meet the “Coffee Party.” Whose most important redeeming quality seems to be, well, that they bill themselves as “an answer to the Tea Party, a year-old protest movement that’s steeped in fiscal conservatism and boiling-hot, anti-tax rhetoric.”
And what is that “answer”? A gathering together of salt of the earth folk like John Purser, a “humble” man who we’re told prefers “the simple life.
I had a two-room house on an old dirt road and they sucked the value out …
But John has a problem:
At 69, he lives in a two-room house on a rural dirt road in Carroll County, drives a 26-year-old Ford pickup and takes odd jobs to get by. […] He doesn’t need much. Never has. But Purser, who worked in maintenance for Delta Airlines for 30 years, has seen the little security he might have had — his retirement money, for example, and his home’s value — fall apart in recent years.
Saaay… How much WAS it worth?
Cain’t you read, dummy? It durn well just up and FELL APART!
The house?
NO, dag-nabbit! The value of the house!
I’d guess a two-room shack on a rural dirt road wouldn’t have much value in it to lose. Say… Maybe it used to be on Malibu and those Tea Party People moved it!
Not just the house! His retirement money, too!
Yeah. There’s that. Thirty years as a mechanic for Delta. Top-of-the-line carrier. Retirement gone, too.
(From Avjobs.com -emphasis mine: ed)
Wages and Benefits
Aircraft mechanics generally work 40 hours a week on eight-hour shifts around the clock and overtime work is common. The basic airline mechanic’s starting wage is dependent on the size of the company, location in the United States or other part of the world, experience, and type of aircraft worked. There are also increases in salary for longevity, licenses,held, line work, or shift work… A lead airline mechanic with an A & P certificate and 10 years experience can expect to make in excess of $73,000 per year when salaried or $45.00 per hour in shift positions.
Yeah. I can see why John would be sub-letting from Lil Abner.
Well, this all sure does hang together. Yessiree. If this story goes on much longer Halliburton’s going to pop up in it somewhere. Obama isn’t the only one who thinks we’re stupid. The ad agency they hired for this movie thinks so too.
Jeff’s entire Protein Wisdom post is HERE.
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