[Doogle]

..the Odumbo way

[mlocher]

I wonder how many other agencies could be furloughed?

[concerned about politics]

So? It's Romadon. Oboma needs the time off. You don't expect them to work on a muslim holiday, do you? Get real.

[DustyMoment]

The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers have left town for a month without resolving a partisan standoff over a bill to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.

And, trust me, the airlines couldn't be more thrilled with the Congresscritters

(I wonder how many Congresscritters flew home on vacation for free?)

[Glenn]

The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion

That's exactly how the government looks at it.

[bvw]

If only they had defunded the TSA. Where the FAA was cocaine the TSA is crack. Very destructive.

[EGPWS]

If it wasn't shown time and time again every day that 0bama is so patriotic that he would NEVER do anything to harm his country of birth one would think that will all the destructive issues coming out of the White house that it were by design.

But we know better...

[concerned about politics]

I don't care about the loss of tax revenue. This is a good thing. Without slave labor, big spending government can't survive.
Take away everyone elses money, and the democrats will have some explaining to do when their promised freeloader checks fail to show up in the mail.

[AD from SpringBay]

UNITED STATES – The citizens are likely to not have stolen from them more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers have left town for a month without resolving a partisan standoff over a bill to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.

[microgood]

I think this is bunk. The airlines are continuing to collect the tax because they know that the jerks in Congress will want it back - probably with interest.

[Monitor]

Starve! The! Beast!

[newzjunkey]

This is all about making it EASIER to unionize by only requiring just a majority of employees voting instead of the whole workforce.

It's amazing the Senate GOP are holding the line on this.

[KeyLargo]

- Big Government - http://biggovernment.com -

FAA Shutdown Because Dems Want to Protect Pork

Posted By Capitol Confidential On August 3, 2011 @ 8:29 am

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has basically been shut down [1] thanks to the Senate Democrats addition to pork. 4,000 FAA employees have been furloughed until further notice. 70,000 construction workers must now sit on their hands as all airport construction has halted. And the federal government is loosing $200million a week in airline ticket taxes because they are not authorized to legally collect the tax.

[2]

What has led to this massive shut down? Senate Democrats refusal to curb a wasteful government subsidy of $200 million known as the Essential Air Service (EAS) program [3].

As of last Friday, the FAA has lost its authorization to spend money and levy fees because Congress couldn’t come to an agreement on a transportation bill. House Republicans are currently purposing a temporary transportation bill to last through September allowing time for the two parties to come together on a larger agreement. Included in the bill is a provision that would curb the EAS program.

The EAS program was originally created in 1978 as a subsidy to help out small and rural airports as the government stepped back from regulating routes and fares. The program was intended to last 10 years. Over three decades later, the program is still in existence serving over 140 airports; its budget keeps exploding and now the program functions only to subsidize routes that would have been abandoned year ago.....

http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2011/08/03/faa-shutdown-because-dems-want-to-protect-pork/print/