Flight delays: Congress and its priorities

[J.E.D]

Flight Delays Deal Has Other Sequestration Victims Asking Congress, WTF?

Victims of sequestration lashed out at Congress on Friday, after lawmakers moved swiftly to address long lines at airports while leaving other cuts, primarily those affecting low-income Americans, unaddressed.

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"It's perplexing that we're saving programs that are inconveniencing others, but we're not saving programs that are saving lives," said Ellie Hollander, president and CEO of Meals on Wheels, which estimates that, because of sequestration, seniors will be getting 19 million fewer meals.

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"The sequester is really obvious when you are standing in line at an airport," explained Sue Nelson, vice president of federal advocacy at the American Heart Association. "I was waiting in line myself. People that you think never heard the word 'sequester' were using it in line. The problem with the National Institute of Health is, you are not going to die tomorrow because of a sequester cut. What it will mean is some cure for heart failure or a disease that could have been available in your lifetime may now not be."

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"This is an issue that we have been trying to raise in every avenue we can find, having our doctors and patients call congressional offices to explain what an emergency it is for us and patients in terms of access and continuity of care," said Dr. William Nibley of Utah Cancer Specialists, based in Salt Lake City. "We haven't gotten much of a response. Then there is a little news about delays and all the sudden there is legislation and debate. That's frustrating to us. We think cancer patients and their access to care is an issue that is critical. Those patients feel like their care is super-critical and it's being ignored."

"I would invite anyone in Washington to come look my patients in the eye and tell them that waiting for a flight is a bigger problem than traveling farther and waiting longer for chemotherapy," he added.

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"If this wasn't just poor people's programs affected most, there would be national outrage," said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. "It places the cuts on the most vulnerable and the least visible."

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama insisted on his Brutal Sequester.

Obama <3 Sequester



I'm glad the grow ups are back in charge

 

[editec]

Now please don't even utter the phrase CLASS WARFARE because it will simply confuse the terminally stupid who post here.

They really and truly cannot understand why this is a perfect example of CLASS WARFARE manifesting in our government spending.

 

[J.E.D]

Obama insisted on his Brutal Sequester.


I'm glad the grow ups are back in charge

Please...

So, when are the 'grown-ups' going to start caring more about the poor than long lines at airports?

 

[Truthmatters]

sociopaths

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama is a madman.

 

[boilermaker55]

The ones with money get to eat there cake and have it too.
Typical right wing hypocrisy. Then they will flock to the doors of their church or place of worship and pretend they are good religious people.

Flight Delays Deal Has Other Sequestration Victims Asking Congress, WTF?

Victims of sequestration lashed out at Congress on Friday, after lawmakers moved swiftly to address long lines at airports while leaving other cuts, primarily those affecting low-income Americans, unaddressed.

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"It's perplexing that we're saving programs that are inconveniencing others, but we're not saving programs that are saving lives," said Ellie Hollander, president and CEO of Meals on Wheels, which estimates that, because of sequestration, seniors will be getting 19 million fewer meals.

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"The sequester is really obvious when you are standing in line at an airport," explained Sue Nelson, vice president of federal advocacy at the American Heart Association. "I was waiting in line myself. People that you think never heard the word 'sequester' were using it in line. The problem with the National Institute of Health is, you are not going to die tomorrow because of a sequester cut. What it will mean is some cure for heart failure or a disease that could have been available in your lifetime may now not be."

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"This is an issue that we have been trying to raise in every avenue we can find, having our doctors and patients call congressional offices to explain what an emergency it is for us and patients in terms of access and continuity of care," said Dr. William Nibley of Utah Cancer Specialists, based in Salt Lake City. "We haven't gotten much of a response. Then there is a little news about delays and all the sudden there is legislation and debate. That's frustrating to us. We think cancer patients and their access to care is an issue that is critical. Those patients feel like their care is super-critical and it's being ignored."

"I would invite anyone in Washington to come look my patients in the eye and tell them that waiting for a flight is a bigger problem than traveling farther and waiting longer for chemotherapy," he added.

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"If this wasn't just poor people's programs affected most, there would be national outrage," said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. "It places the cuts on the most vulnerable and the least visible."

 

[CrusaderFrank]

He's trying to get even more Americans killed. His family can enjoy a safe flight, why doesn't he want the same for the rest of America?

 

[J.E.D]

He's trying to get even more Americans killed. His family can enjoy a safe flight, why doesn't he want the same for the rest of America?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

He let our Benghazi Consulate get massacred on 9/11 Anniversary, he was too busy trying to eliminate the Second Amendment to pay attention to terrorists so we got whacked against at home in Boston and now he trying to turn flying into a crap shoot.

Can we get rid of this fucking madman in the White House?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Why can't Obama run a competent operation? Why?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

sociopaths

Totally. Obama's a Madman and Biden is just plain nuts

 

[jon_berzerk]

Why can't Obama run a competent operation? Why?

that reminds me when obama wondered aloud

in front of his adoring crowd

"why cant we be more like China"... "why"

--LOL

 

[CrusaderFrank]

FoxNews should interview people at airports and ask them how they feel that the President cares so little about them

 

[Oddball]

Now please don't even utter the phrase CLASS WARFARE because it will simply confuse the terminally stupid who post here.

They really and truly cannot understand why this is a perfect example of CLASS WARFARE manifesting in our government spending.

Exactly.

The super rich don't have to suffer missed connections and other fallout from flight delays, as they fly in private aircraft...It's the middle class flying commercial who are forced to suffer.

Why does Oboingo care so little about the middle class?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Now please don't even utter the phrase CLASS WARFARE because it will simply confuse the terminally stupid who post here.

They really and truly cannot understand why this is a perfect example of CLASS WARFARE manifesting in our government spending.

Exactly.

The super rich don't have to suffer missed connections and other fallout from flight delays, as they fly in private aircraft...It's the middle class flying commercial who are forced to suffer.

Why does Oboingo care so little about the middle class?

Was delayed an hour into and out of Westchester yesterday because the private planes all insisted on 5 minute window between flights

 

[J.E.D]

Now please don't even utter the phrase CLASS WARFARE because it will simply confuse the terminally stupid who post here.

They really and truly cannot understand why this is a perfect example of CLASS WARFARE manifesting in our government spending.

Exactly.

The super rich don't have to suffer missed connections and other fallout from flight delays, as they fly in private aircraft...It's the middle class flying commercial who are forced to suffer.

Why does Oboingo care so little about the middle class?

Where have you been? Congress altered the bill and Obama is likely to sign it. So, there goes the right's latest fabricated lie about Obama being personally responsible for flight delays.

Now if only Congress would care so much about cuts to Head Start, cancer screenings, Meals on Wheels and more programs that the poor and elderly rely upon.

 

[Oddball]

*snert*....Head Start and Meals on Wheels.....

 

[J.E.D]

*snert*....Head Start and Meals on Wheels.....

Yeah cuts to programs that aid the poor is hilarious. Now go catch your flight. Congress made sure that you don't have to wait in a long line.

25 Head Start Providers Lose Their Service Areas; Sequestration Looms for All - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Head Start programs across the country are struggling with how they can make the required 5.3 percent cuts to their programs forced by sequestration. It is estimated that as many as 70,000 children nationwide will lose access to Head Start, and 14,000 staff will be laid off. Many programs are attempting to minimize the numbers of student slots that will be cut, but their options are limited.

In Florida, Hillsborough County’s Head Start program is looking at a cut of $1.4 million, forcing it to close four playgrounds and delay purchasing vehicles, hoping that some late-action legislation may forestall the need for other cuts.

Sequestration Cuts Will Stall Meals On Wheels

The Meals On Wheels number is based not just on funding for home-delivered meals, but also funds for "congregant" meals served in group settings and funds for nutrition-service incentive programs. The association estimates the three funding sources add up to more than $800 million; sequestration's 5.1 percent cut will subtract roughly $41 million, which Meals On Wheels says amounts to 19 million meals.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Now please don't even utter the phrase CLASS WARFARE because it will simply confuse the terminally stupid who post here.

They really and truly cannot understand why this is a perfect example of CLASS WARFARE manifesting in our government spending.

Exactly.

The super rich don't have to suffer missed connections and other fallout from flight delays, as they fly in private aircraft...It's the middle class flying commercial who are forced to suffer.

Why does Oboingo care so little about the middle class?

Where have you been? Congress altered the bill and Obama is likely to sign it. So, there goes the right's latest fabricated lie about Obama being personally responsible for flight delays.

Now if only Congress would care so much about cuts to Head Start, cancer screenings, Meals on Wheels and more programs that the poor and elderly rely upon.

Progressive are totally mindless zombies