@ TheSkiingPilot:
Firstly, the FAA license is too easy.
What qualifies you in making such a statement? Do you hold an FAA license yourself? Obviously not, otherwise you wouldn't be writing such a nonsense!
I hear the airline industry in America isn't doing too well at the moment, with jobs being hard to find, and with pay being very poor. Morale is not a strong point for pilots over in America either.
Again, what qualifies you in making such a derogatory statement, particularly regarding the moral of US pilots?
I'm a US pilot and flight instructor myself, and I must say I feel rudely assaulted and offended by such a post! Who or what do you think you are?
If you show as little respect towards others in the cockpit as well, you should seriously rethink your intension of becoming a professional pilot, since this kind of behavior is anything but professional!
And by the way, I happen to hold an EASA ATP (frozen) myself, so I know both systems the EU and the US. Both system have advantages and disadvantages, but don't degrade one system over the other, especially if you only know one system!