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FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It
coondoggie writes "The term sequestration has certainly become a four-letter word for many across the country — and now you can count business and regular traveling public among those hating its impact. The Federal Aviation Administration today issued a blunt statement on the impact of sequestration on the nation's air traffic control system, which this week begain furloughing about 10% of air traffic controllers for two days or so per month. It reads as follows: 'As a result of employee furloughs due to sequestration, the FAA is implementing traffic management initiatives at airports and facilities around the country. Travelers can expect to see a wide range of delays that will change throughout the day depending on staffing and weather-related issues. ... Yesterday more than 1,200 delays in the system were attributable to staffing reductions resulting from the furlough.'"
U.S. Democrats and Republicans spent the day using the FAA's statement as political fodder rather than working on resolving sequestration.
U.S. Democrats and Republicans spent the day using the FAA's statement as political fodder rather than working on resolving sequestration.
The Republicans got what they wanted: Spending cuts. Who gives a flying fark through a rolling doughnut how badly it was implimented? Now we all have to suffer because a bunch of fat bastards in suits can't behave any better than children. A better idea would have been to pass a law saying that if they couldn't agree on a budget they'd all be fired.
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No, the pubs never intended to compromise or balance the budget. They just want to choke the beast no matter what the people actually want or need.
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If the dems agreed to REAL cuts (not cuts from projections, which are not real cuts) that would be one thing. The problem is, I havent seen the democrats agreeing to any cut to anything!, not even mil. spending which we expect from them! no
by your logic, if one side is worse then then other (while I argue both sides suck major cock) then the bad side would be obama, who has spent trillions in 5 years(, has not closed gitmo - when he promised he would do so in his fist year its year 5) has driven up the costs for most americans in regards to healthcare and to top it ooff claims he has the right to kill any american at any time for any reason, yet charges REAL terrorists as if they are normal americans
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
The problem is, any time you have government, you have an incentive to be inefficient. There's little accountability beyond a couple of years and it is very unlikely that your term will end prematurely unless you get involved in some sort of major scandal.
With the TSA and FAA there is no real reason to improve safety because there's no competition. There's no reason to avoid slowdowns and bottlenecks because there's no competition. What needs to happen is that the TSA needs to be fully privatized and security needs to be dealt with on the airport/airline line, this would increase safety and reduce headaches. The FAA needs to have most of their responsibilities delegated to competing firms with certain standards (the competing companies need to have common protocols but should compete for which airports will hire them). Only then can air travel be saved.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
The only reason we are "spending more" this year is because mandatory entitlement programs (unaffected by the sequester) are included in the federal budget.
Technically, we haven't had a 'federal budget' in years. Harry Reid won't allow a sensible one to come to the floor of the Senate. He only allows Obama's jokes to be entered, which event the Democrats can't bring themselves to vote for.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
The sequester is not bunk - any time you mess with an agency's funding, it will cause issues. (Plans get made in advance, hiring and other spending gets committed to, etc.) However, there seems to be an aspect of a "statue of liberty" play here. In this context, this does not refer to a football play, but to a (possibly hypothetical) Park Service tendency to respond to budget cuts by closing the Statue of Liberty, instead of some remote park entrances in the back-of-beyond.
Statue of Liberty plays are used because they get people's attention, which the FAA has certainly done.