Also, frankly I find many who dis MSers to be jealous folk. Plain and simple. But aside from that, one could almost argue that the hotel and airline programs are the cheaters, not us.

Someone should start a class action suit saying something like, They marketed to everyone to go out and get all these high bonus CCs and spend money to get miles (little guys and big MSers alike mind u) and then just as we were doing that--with realistic redeption goals in mind, they upped the anti!

"Sign up for card x! Spend $$$$ on it and that's enough for two free tickets/nights whatever!"

And then, suddenly it is really just another big bait and switch