Sorry Joe but I have to disagree with you.
I did not mean to give the impression I would automatically pass selection for RA should I choose to apply. I am not one of those people that assumes if you turn up at RA HQ with 30k then a job offer will be an automatic thing.
I have flown with pilots from RA (in the GA environment) and from that I gleaned they are professional well trained people.
However it does come down to,simple economics. Perhaps I should have qualified my comments with the additional information that I read economics for three years at uni so have a reasonable grasp of the fundamentals.
If you look at the basic supply and demand model there reaches a points where the costs get too much and the demand dries up (giffen goods etc excluded).
So I stand by my assertion that if people don't like it then they do not have to apply or they can leave.