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Subject: Re: Alaska Tax on Cruisers & Companies! Posted on: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:04:37 MDT

Hi Dennis,

I assume you chose to live where you do, so quitcherbitchin' or move
somewhere else!

Tobie>>>>on an Island in the Pacific

"Dennis P. Harris" wrote in message
news:v3dif2527e6qahj6s9su1tqgqlqkfh8foa@4ax.com...
> On 1 Sep 2006 08:25:36 -0700 in rec.travel.cruises, "-hh"
> wrote:
>
>> I find it absoultely incredulous that anyone even has the audacity to
>> complain about a 5% increase in the price of a [bleeping] luxury item.
>> Anyone who thinks that they have an "inalienable right" to a vacation
>> should go talk with their ancestors who survived the Great Depression.
>>
> what's worse, they also think that they have an inalienable right
> to fantastic service from folks who make starvation wages, to
> take helicopter flights that create continual noise for the local
> population so they never can have a quiet day all summer, to just
> walk out into the street in front of oncoming drivers, and to
> constantly ask how high above sea level they are when they just
> got off the bleeping ship.
>
> it's too bad we didn't make it 10 times as much. maybe then the
> level of pax might drop enough to restore some quality to the
> pseudo-experience that the cruiselines markets as shore
> excursions.
>