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Still no word on closing down the EPA due to “budget cuts”, huh?
But wouldn't it be a mixed message if they close the control towers in Los Angeles and everybody referred to the place as Ex-LAX??? "We have no control"
I really don’t care anymore. As long as the TSA is stop around to grope and humiliate me, I’m not flying anywhere.
Not one person off of welfare. Not one middle manager cut. No one off of unemployment. Perfect.
I hear that Air Traffic Controllers at ATC centers will cut controllers 60% in time and wages. Clinton cut 10% across the board to all agencies and never had that impact.
I am a pilot and I can tell you right now there are 100’s of airports that currently have control towers that will operate just fine without them.
why can’t we cut:
The $100m to Egypt
The $$$$$$$$$$ to Pakistan
The $$$$ to Africa
Obama and the gov would love to have a plane crash and then blame it on the sequester fake crisis
Ridiculous.
The whole sequester amounts to a 2% reduction in the federal government’s spending INCREASE.
They’re still getting 98% of the scheduled spending INCREASE.
I’m sure airports can be totally privatized . I haven’t thought about this but I know private hospitals, private schools will actually work unlike their government counterparts. and I also think private roads would work better ( less traffic). there is nothing the gov does better than the free market. only need gov for military and border control , that’s it.
One of them is in my town and we are pissed.
I don’t get it. Bush gave us the $1.7 trillion bank bailout. Yet, Obama has continued to spend $1.7 trillion every year but not for bank bailouts. So, where is the money going.
The mighty is falling. Soviet Russia had some 1300 airports in 1989 and only about 170 by 2001. Sequesters do wonders, isn’t it?
I say we make some dressing and bake Big Bird.
/johnny
Federal Spending for 2013 will exceed Federal Spending for 2012.
There are NO CUTS in Federal Spending, year to year.
This is BS - these towers have been on the chopping block for at least ten years - in addition to being inefficient and costing more than the service they deliver is worth, most are run by outside contractors, and by closing them now the government hopes to reopen them later with unionized public employees - the big lie goes on and on......
Truth is the left does not want targeted cuts they always opt for chaos which is what they are doing now. Our side does not talk about any of this as usual.So we lose yet another argument to the left that has beat us politically every time.
The sequester requires agencies to make across-the-board cuts and does not allow them the flexibility to make targeted cuts. Congress and the White House would have to agree on a bill to replace the sequester if they want to make the cuts more targeted. Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/284213-cantor-obama-offering-false-choices-on-sequester#ixzz2ONNQ5xgQ Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook
I understand that these towers were slated for closing. They are run by third party providers.
The unions want to reopen them with government employees.
Chaching.
Never let a crisis go to waste.