Gentlemen, I'm happy to accept that there is a percentage of ATC's who are loudly and viciously anti this proposal. That's fair enough. I won't attempt to quantify that number because I have no idea, except to guess fairly confidently that it is less than 100%. By itself that should tell ThrillMan that even if it's beyond his imagination, some ATC personnel think that in the overall scheme of life we are not doing badly. That,, ThrillMan, is the other viewpoint you apparently can't conceive of.
There are clearly points such as the FPC nonsense which have to be addressed. I'm not suggesting a blind capitulation to everything, rather a gentle suggestion that general pay increases at least equivalent to CPI are difficult to argue against without betraying an outraged ego, especially when you are well into the $100K bracket.
But please don't let such philosophies distract you from your rage, nor let it detract from the actual point in my previous post. Ignore it at your peril.