“a blessing for lawmakers who fly out of the nation’s capitol.”
Wrong. Punitive action against the rest of the taxpayers of this country. TYRANNY.
From the Wall Street Journal:
The White House claims the sequester applies to the budget category known as “projects, programs and activities” and thus it lacks flexibility. Not so: This is a political pose to make the sequester more disruptive. Legally speaking, the sequester applies at a more general level known as “accounts.” The air traffic account includes 15,000 controllers out of 31,000 employees. The White House could keep the controllers on duty simply by allocating more furlough days to these other non-essential workers.
Instead, the FAA is even imposing the controller furlough on every airport equally, not prioritizing among the largest and busiest airports. San Francisco’s Napa Valley airport with no commercial service will absorb the same proportion of the cuts as the central New York radar terminal, which covers La Guardia, JFK and Newark International, as well as MacArthur, Teterboro, New Haven, Republic and other regional fields.
Anyone who has flown in or out of those terminals knows that they are hardly models of efficiency, and one reason is the pre-modern U.S. traffic control system. The FAA still uses ground radar and voice-based communications that were the best technology the 1950s had to offer. Many planes are now equipped with advanced avionics that enable more direct and precise flight paths, but they aren’t allowed to fly these faster, safer routes because the FAA can’t track their navigation methods.
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the servants have taken over the farmhouse
(all animals are created equal, but some more equal than others”)
time to vote all the pigs out
the servants have taken over the farmhouse
(all animals are created equal, but some more equal than others”)
time to vote all the pigs out!
Good for thee but not for me.
The tyrants are lining up at the public trough. We carry the water while the pigs drink it.
“if the speaker has the opportunity to save anyone from Obamacare, he will.””
He best understand it’s save everyone or nobody. He desperately needs to understand that. His job is not a lifetime appointment.
When I think they cannot possibly get any less honorable or more self-serving, they pull another bonehead move like this. It is truly astounding.
Do they think we’re not watching?
They are becoming the catalysts for a sea change. It’s only a matter of time.