[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Left is salivating over sequestration cuts.

Nancy Pelosi is calling Republicans “the E-Coli crowd” — that safe food and water for children is threatened.

Targeted Obama cuts, designed to draw the most votes will be the Democrat Party reelection campaign strategy -— helped along by the MSM biased reporting.

August 7, 2012 AP 7PM, NPR: “....the sequester could mean 100,000 children lose their place in Head Start while food safety and workplace safety inspections are reduced. The National Institutes of Health would have to curtail research,”.... Source

[Amagi]

Get rid of the absolutely useless TSA.
Auction off the human irradiation machines on eBay.
Shift the funds from TSA to FAA specifically to fund Air Traffic Control.
That was easy.

[tcrlaf]

PIE is an airport stuck in another era.

TPA International is the big airport, and all of the majors are there. Sarasota serves the South Bay area. PIE is left as being the third choice, currently served only by Allegiant, (and a couple of once-a-week Canadian Charters) without air service to the top 10 destinations.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s small, quick and convenient if you are going to the beaches, but that’s it.

[Vince Ferrer]

Move the controller’s jobs from the FAA to the cities then.

[Buckeye McFrog]

closing this airport would save the rest of the world from Scientology

[Darth Reardon]

“If St. Petersburg-Clearwater International were to close, officials there said the bay area would take a big economic hit. According to a 2010 state report, the airport generated $924 million in economic activity and 8,200 jobs while serving more than 360,000 passengers. “

And all of those jobs and all of that economic activity would simply be lost. None of it would move the seven or eight miles right down interstate 275 to the Tampa airport.

[GonzoGOP]

If St. Petersburg-Clearwater International were to close, officials there said the bay area would take a big economic hit. According to a 2010 state report, the airport generated $924 million in economic activity and 8,200 jobs while serving more than 360,000 passengers.

OK Basic math. 360,000 passengers divided by 365 days in a year gives us 986 passengers per day. Divided by the 189 people that a 737-800 can carry and you end up with 5-6 flights a day. I'm thinking they can squeeze those in at some other airport.

As for the employees, I don't see how you need 8,200 people to service 5-6 flights a day. Not if you are trying to run an airport. On the other hand if you are trying to pad union rolls with hundreds of do nothing jobs it would seem to be the way to go.