Yes, I Do. But your arguement is the same as the people who don't vote for the President of the USA and then complain about how the President is not doing the job the way they want him to do it. So you have "some members in good standing"(70 out of 1500+), they have a right to complain. The ones who aren't members don't have that "right" in my opinion. From what I have read here, USAPA has, and still does, go to bat for ALL pilots, regardless of the east/west thing. You, or they, might not like the way they do it, but they have represented the west pilots.
electric, the only affected pilots would actually be those on the west who are 58 or older, and in good standing.
How's this one for additional consideration = Gallileo was actually correct..and the world does indeed revolve around the sun...and not merely around your merry little band. I'll not even offer any futile question as to what you can not understand in that statement... 
"and those protests have fallen on deaf ears"??? If you say so, but you're first assuming said "protests" to be of a valid nature that'd be received by any prudent person as being even marginally rational, and not simply nothing but ravings, "misrepresentations" (to put it mildly) and pure propoganda. Have a good evening....(resets the snooze alarm)...
Spoken like a true newly furloughed ex-Mesa pilot..who became a "pilot in 1979"...
It's not date of hire(DOH) but birthdays (DOB)that determine things?
