What I want to know is they never lay off “administrators” and office workers.
‘Cause I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t miss most of them.
IBD Editorial Debunks LaHood’s ‘Flight Delays’ Lament About Sequestration
By Tom Blumer | February 26, 2013 | 07:15
Doing the kind of reporting the establishment press would be doing if it were something other than the collection of presidential supplicants it has become, an Investor’s Business Daily editorial Monday evening completely refuted outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s claim that a $600 million “cut” (really “a reduction in projected spending”) would hurt the Federal Aviation Administration so badly that flight delays would be an inevitable result. One suspects that similar analyses of other agencies would also reveal that the fears expressed by “President Armageddon” (the Wall Street Journal’s recent nickname for President Obama) have little if any basis in fact — if one bravely assumes that the administration isn’t hell-bent on inflicting the maximum amount of visible pain if sequestration indeed comes to pass.
As I’ve said often, there’s far more of what really amounts to legitimate fact-based reporting (as opposed to White House stenography) in IBD and Wall Street Journal editorials than you’ll find in most of the establishment press’s so-called “straight news reporting” on the same topics. As far as the FAA is concerned, IBD shows that all the agency would have to do is redeploy its existing resources — something which obviously should have been done long ago — and should ultimately privatize the entire operation, as Canada has successfully done (bolds are mine):
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/category/people/baarck-obama#ixzz2M0v827Ij
Exactly, they don’t want the taxpayers to realize that they really don’t need a lot of the things their money is confiscated to pay for.
It’s exactly the same reason PBS pulls the “we’re going to kill Big Bird” stunt everytime their funding is threatened. It’s an incredibly stupid idea given the other things that can be cut, but it generates an emotional response against the proposed cuts.
Few things scare people more than the thought of being trapped in a fire and burning to death. So saying that firemen will be laid off will have a much larger impact than saying budget analysts will.