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question everything

(47,271 posts)
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:18 PM Apr 2013

Senate approves plan to end FAA furloughs

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate approved a measure on Thursday aimed at ending budget-related air traffic controller furloughs that have been blamed for widespread flight delays this week.

A bipartisan agreement giving Transportation Department budget planners new flexibility for dealing with forced spending cuts cleared the chamber unanimously.

The House was expected to take up the proposal on Friday.

The plan additionally would allow authorities to protect 149 control towers at small and medium-sized airports that are slated for closure for budgetary reasons.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/politics/faa-delays-congress/index.html



This, of course, is the result of the sequester.

I wish they did not. Let members of Congress test first hand the results of their (in)actions. They are planning to leave D.C. Friday for Spring break - or something.
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Senate approves plan to end FAA furloughs (Original Post) question everything Apr 2013 OP
They are so full of crap!!!! mucifer Apr 2013 #1
Why didnt they raise taxes on the wealthy ? lunasun Apr 2013 #2
Days off SamKnause Apr 2013 #9
Indeed! City Lights Apr 2013 #16
Horrible! tofuandbeer Apr 2013 #3
Because the dems are on vacation every other week, too and don't want to wait in line. mucifer Apr 2013 #4
Washington has a spending problem, cut everything, no, wait, you mean it will cut services Thinkingabout Apr 2013 #5
FFA furloughs, but not headstart programs. I guess senators fly, but can afford sending their Mass Apr 2013 #6
And Section 8 Housing vouchers question everything Apr 2013 #7
They need to get rid of the rest of the sequester while they're at it meow2u3 Apr 2013 #8
This bill should not be passed RayStar Apr 2013 #13
Robbing Peter to pay Paul? LTG Apr 2013 #10
What, no Catfood For Grannies amendment? DeSwiss Apr 2013 #11
I resent having to subsidize the most environmentally destructive transportation system available. Kolesar Apr 2013 #12
Truly telling caraher Apr 2013 #14
Veto! earthside Apr 2013 #15
Thank you, Steny Hoyer, for opposing the bill question everything Apr 2013 #17

mucifer

(23,374 posts)
1. They are so full of crap!!!!
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:26 PM
Apr 2013

It's all about them. Most of them don't give a crap about anyone else who is suffering.

They take vacations 3 times a month. No way they can wait in a line.

tofuandbeer

(1,314 posts)
3. Horrible!
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:28 PM
Apr 2013

They want the sequester to be successful, so they are going to eliminate the things that affect the rich. GRRRRRRR!
Why didn't the Dems stand up?

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
5. Washington has a spending problem, cut everything, no, wait, you mean it will cut services
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:31 PM
Apr 2013

And our offices gets bombarded with calls, nope Washington doesn't have a spending problem, they now have a service problem, hurry and turn the money back on. They are frauds, clowns.

Mass

(27,315 posts)
6. FFA furloughs, but not headstart programs. I guess senators fly, but can afford sending their
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:35 PM
Apr 2013

preschoolers to fancy pre-schools.

question everything

(47,271 posts)
7. And Section 8 Housing vouchers
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:40 PM
Apr 2013

There was a story locally about a woman who was ready to finally move to an apartment and that is now on hold.

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
8. They need to get rid of the rest of the sequester while they're at it
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:43 PM
Apr 2013

If not, it's proof positive that Congress cares more about the rich being inconvenienced by flight delays than the poor being threatened with starvation, disease, and death.

RayStar

(417 posts)
13. This bill should not be passed
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 06:40 AM
Apr 2013

Until Congress is ready to do away with the entire sequester, let them be inconvenienced by waiting on an airplane flight. Head start and meals on wheels need relief also.

LTG

(215 posts)
10. Robbing Peter to pay Paul?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 03:00 AM
Apr 2013

If I'm reading the article correctly, they aren't reinstating any funding. They are simply telling the Transportation Department to leave the FAA alone and make greater sequester cuts elsewhere.

So, this means bigger cuts in the Transportation budget in other areas? Wonder who or what gets to feel even more pain?

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
11. What, no Catfood For Grannies amendment?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:17 AM
Apr 2013

It should be clear to everyone that the OWNERS of the USofA demand that their drones -- those who travel to hither and yon in order to peddle their boss's plastic wares, and carry out their boss's financial chicanery and otherwise serve as their flunkies and do their every bidding -- be allowed to get to and fro via the airline system they themselves own, in order not to inconvenience THEM. Or make THEM lose money.

Aside from the regular security irradiations they're exposed to, and the occasional anal probes they suffer from suspicious TSA authoritarians, they should allow Oligarchy Drones safe and timely passage.

Pharaoh saith: ''So let it be written, so let it be done......''

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
12. I resent having to subsidize the most environmentally destructive transportation system available.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:54 AM
Apr 2013

Charge the users: business jet owners, vacationers flying to Spring Break vacations, and every business traveler. A few dollars on the millions of flights every year could get aviation to pay its own way.

caraher

(6,276 posts)
14. Truly telling
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 08:47 AM
Apr 2013

I have flights scheduled in mid-May and I was expecting that to really suck because of the sequester, but hoped that the annoyance it would cause the wealthy might prompt broad movement to a sane resolution of the budget standoff.

But nooo... I should have expected this craven, selfish act since it only goes to show whom they truly represent. I'll be glad not to face long flight delays, but that's the very least of the evils of the sequester.

earthside

(6,960 posts)
15. Veto!
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 08:58 AM
Apr 2013

The Repuglican House is so craven that even they will probably pass this bill.

Pres. Obama should announce right now that he will veto this selfish legislation.

But he probably won't.

What a bunch of hypocrites.

"Headstart and Meals-on-Wheels ... screw you, but my flight home for my fundraiser better be on time!"

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