STOP the emails
04-21-2016, 02:15 PM
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STOP the emails
It is time to collectively get together and visit our reps, either in Washington or their state. There are enough of us that we should be able to band together a few hundred and picket, protest, or whatever you want to call it. I am advocating for this on other forums as well. If we want to keep our hobby we have to stop emailing, stop the letters, and quit entrusting the AMA. We have got to get off the keyboards, out of our last chairs, and literally go see them in person.
It is up to us so let's start this into some form of direction, plan and act on it together. Other groups do similar and get want they, now it is our turn.
It is up to us so let's start this into some form of direction, plan and act on it together. Other groups do similar and get want they, now it is our turn.
We'd all end up getting clubbed like seals and dragged away for our blubber ..... Eww ....
04-21-2016, 02:30 PM
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And that is exactly the attitude that will get our hobby abolished. I know you were more than likely joking but it is time to stop and get real.
I not only would make a trip to Washington but bring my trailer and push my biggest aircraft ahead of me in the streets with a sign attached "This is not a drone but a model aircraft".
I not only would make a trip to Washington but bring my trailer and push my biggest aircraft ahead of me in the streets with a sign attached "This is not a drone but a model aircraft".
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04-21-2016, 02:40 PM
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And that is exactly the attitude that will get our hobby abolished. I know you were more than likely joking but it is time to stop and get real.
I not only would make a trip to Washington but bring my trailer and push my biggest aircraft ahead of me in the streets with a sign attached "This is not a drone but a model aircraft".
I not only would make a trip to Washington but bring my trailer and push my biggest aircraft ahead of me in the streets with a sign attached "This is not a drone but a model aircraft".
04-21-2016, 02:46 PM
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I do not mean a literal protest but a legal, permitted, show of solidarity, assembly at the steps. Imagine the press if a couple hundred, to several hundred, of us showed up with our good stuff and best behavior to peacefully voice our concerns. I would have to imagine our reps as well as the FAA would have to reconsider their position on modelling after our faces and objection's are posted all over the news circuit.
04-22-2016, 06:16 AM
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And that is exactly the attitude that will get our hobby abolished. I know you were more than likely joking but it is time to stop and get real.
I not only would make a trip to Washington but bring my trailer and push my biggest aircraft ahead of me in the streets with a sign attached "This is not a drone but a model aircraft".
I not only would make a trip to Washington but bring my trailer and push my biggest aircraft ahead of me in the streets with a sign attached "This is not a drone but a model aircraft".
04-22-2016, 11:32 AM
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How about we start by not voting for those who haven't met a regulation or tax they didn't like? They ones calling for regulations on hobbies and sporting activities, and even more taxing the half of the people that are already paying the tax bill while the other half gets more than they paid in all together back every year at tax time.
They are all members of the same party that want the above, but everyone is determined to keep electing them because they falsely assume the other party are these evil rich white people that only want to give rich people more money, because they believe everything they hear, even though that entire premise is based on focus group tested talking points to get people to do their will.
They are all members of the same party that want the above, but everyone is determined to keep electing them because they falsely assume the other party are these evil rich white people that only want to give rich people more money, because they believe everything they hear, even though that entire premise is based on focus group tested talking points to get people to do their will.
04-22-2016, 01:29 PM
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How about we start by not voting for those who haven't met a regulation or tax they didn't like? They ones calling for regulations on hobbies and sporting activities, and even more taxing the half of the people that are already paying the tax bill while the other half gets more than they paid in all together back every year at tax time.
They are all members of the same party that want the above, but everyone is determined to keep electing them because they falsely assume the other party are these evil rich white people that only want to give rich people more money, because they believe everything they hear, even though that entire premise is based on focus group tested talking points to get people to do their will.
They are all members of the same party that want the above, but everyone is determined to keep electing them because they falsely assume the other party are these evil rich white people that only want to give rich people more money, because they believe everything they hear, even though that entire premise is based on focus group tested talking points to get people to do their will.
It's not politics . It's money . It's the fact that a politician can take in more PAC money in one month than he/she would make in 20 years of "honest" work , and that money skews the system away from what's right to what's paid for .
AND BOTH PRESENT DAY POLITICAL PARTIES ARE GUILTY !!!
As a not so rich* old white guy I am planning on voting for the only self funded candidate in the race , but I've no blinders on to the fact that the party he's hitched his wagon to ain't squeaky clean in the latest regulatory flurry . The Patriot act ring any bells here ?* pretty much the middle rung of the ever so disappearing middle class !
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05-02-2016, 09:26 AM
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