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I will not volunteer for a pay cut. I will not volunteer for scaling back any benefits. Because our political leaders don't have the guts to cut everywhere else. They're too busy emailing photos of their dicks to each other. And when they're not doing that, they're looking out for themselves. Out

I'd be perfectly willing to take a pay cut, loose some benefits, etc. if and only if Congress takes a chainsaw to the rest of the federal budget and eliminates stuff that we have no business paying for such as National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, Amtrak, farm subsidies, etc. and did a serious crackdown on Medicare and Social Security Disability fraud. Unfortunately, we servicemen and women will take it in the shorts while the taxpayers continue to be soaked for billions in Medicare fraud and wasteful stuff. I can stomach the sacrifice in my pay and benefits to reduce the deficit for the good of the country. Afterall, I'm ready to sacrifice my life if need be. What I can't stomach is having to make that sacrifice on top of all the hassles of military service while Congress continues to waste vast, vast sums of our tax money to ensure they get re-elected.

Ok here is one issue with the scanner, CP finds out we have one and they assume we know everything thats going on, and they quit calling. Between phone calls, customers returning vehicles and the radio they can't always catch when a crew is down. We do do have a flying schedule and know when they "should" be on the ground. I have called CP myself and asked them *why* they did not call, the answer I get is: "don't you have a scanner, you should have heard them land." This is my issue, it's CP's *job* to call us. When crews don't get picked up or are late being picked up, who gets blamed? No worries though.