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Flying the Government Skies
The 4% FAA spending cut that somehow delays 40% of flights.WSJ.COM 4/24/13: As travellers nationwide are learning, the White House has decided to express its dislike of the sequester—otherwise known as modestly smaller government—by choosing to cut basic air traffic control services. We wrote about this human- rights violation on Tuesday in “Flight Delays as Political Strategy,” but the story gets worse the closer we look.
Start with the Federal Aviation Administration, better known as the Postal Service without the modern technology. Flyers directly fund two-thirds of the FAA’s budget through 17 airline taxes and fees—about 20% of the cost of a $300 domestic ticket, up from 7% in the 1970s. Yet now the White House wants to make this agency that can’t deliver what passengers are supposedly paying for even more dysfunctional.
Ponder this logic, if that’s the right word: The sequester cuts about $637 million from the FAA, which is less than 4% of its $15.9 billion 2012 budget, and it limits the agency to what it spent in 2010. The White House decided to translate this 4% cut that it has the legal discretion to avoid into a 10% cut for air traffic controllers. Though controllers will be furloughed for one of every 10 working days, four of every 10 flights won’t arrive on time.
The FAA projects the delays will rob one out of every three travellers of up to four hours of their lives waiting at the major hubs. Congress passed a law in 2009 that makes such delays illegal, at least if they are the responsibility of an airline. Under President Obama’s “passenger bill of rights,” the carriers are fined millions of dollars per plane that sits on the tarmac for more than three hours. But sauce for the goose is apparently an open bar for the FAA gander.
Anyone who doubts that obama and leftists view average Americ ans as nothing but serfs to control need look at this to understand just how petty selfish and tyrannical obama and th left truly are.
Only a far leftist would stoop this low. We should expect something like thist, he parades people across the stage to promote Obama Care, he uses Sandy Hook to push gun laws that would not have prevented the shootings, he has no compunction about lying to his “true believers”. Tom, Rich and Greg are great drinkers of his Kool Aid.
The Wall Street Journal reports FAA head Michael Huerta likes to talk about the “difficult choices” he’s making to satisfy the federal sequester’s modest spending restraints. At least that’s what he says when he’s not claiming that the furloughs of air-traffic controllers are unavoidable. Well, which is it?
Huerta acknowledged under questioning that, in fact, his agency does have some discretion to prioritize and move funds to higher priorities from lower ones. But DOT claims it has already used this flexibility and still can’t avoid cuts to air-traffic control.
Meanwhile the Department of Transportation’s website announced a $474 million grant program that promises to “make communities more livable and sustainable.”
Also Mr. LaHood’s website on Monday also announced that “DOT launches Women in Transportation History online exhibit.”
No doubt all the female passengers waiting for a flight out of LAX will be ecstatic.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324874204578438913145965432.html
Not in the WSJ, I also learned that DOT and FAA have NOT CUT their program of hiring community organizers!
This program is equal to the amount needed to prevent the loss of even 1 hour of any Air Traffic Controller!
Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers and the planes still flew on time. If Reagan could use the military to fill the gap, obummer should be able to do so.
have you notice that when OBAMA get angry like he was
on his failed gun control not pass,
shortly after he come up with his SEQUESTRATION devastation on some part of AMERICA,
now it’s the grounded planes creating a big hassel to the people, he now is content with his revenge,
he seem to need one revenge each time he is frustrated,
does it look like the MUSLIMS anger, I see some similarity, same anger from the core,
deep enough to hurt the people,
what was the last anger on? ah yes he turned criminal illegals loose in the public place,
we can make a list of all his anger connected to disater somewhere. check it up,
another time he pick on the MILITARY AT WAR,
cutting their breafeast, remember? and more of