GOP To FAA: Drop Dead

[Synthaholic]

GOP To FAA: Drop Dead


The Republican House went on vacation without reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, furloughing 4000 federal workers and stranding tens of thousands of workers who can’t continue already-started construction projects. They are holding reauthorization hostage to provisions that would weaken workers’ collective bargaining rights. This is going to cost $1.2 billion in lost passenger tax revenue. Even Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is blasting the GOP’s negligence.

“We’re getting ready to leave for a month. We should not shut down the FAA because of a rider put on the extension of the FAA legislation that has not been negotiated,” Hutchison said.


“It is not honorable for the House to send an extraneous amendment” on a funding extension, she said.

 

[Full-Auto]

GOP To FAA: Drop Dead


The Republican House went on vacation without reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, furloughing 4000 federal workers and stranding tens of thousands of workers who can’t continue already-started construction projects. They are holding reauthorization hostage to provisions that would weaken workers’ collective bargaining rights. This is going to cost $1.2 billion in lost passenger tax revenue. Even Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is blasting the GOP’s negligence.

“We’re getting ready to leave for a month. We should not shut down the FAA because of a rider put on the extension of the FAA legislation that has not been negotiated,” Hutchison said.


“It is not honorable for the House to send an extraneous amendment” on a funding extension, she said.

Maybe you shouldnt have arbitrarily changed the rules.

 

[editec]

AS the Amercian empire is slowly drained of its vitality you can expect that the services that were formerly paid for by the FED will degrade.

Get used to the steady erosion of civil society because this is going to be what's happening, I think, for the rest of your and my lifetimes.

 

[Lovebears65]

They need to privatetize the FAA anyway

 

[mal]

AS the Amercian empire is slowly drained of its vitality you can expect that the services that were formerly paid for by the FED will degrade.

Get used to the steady erosion of civil society because this is going to be what's happening, I think, for the rest of your and my lifetimes.

Need a Tissue, Shitpack?...



peace...

 

[Oddball]

Anybody notice how many aircraft have just been dropping out of the skies since the FAA was shut down?

Nope...Didn't think so.

 

[R.D.]

hostage ..oy

new drinking game word

 

[Patrick2]

Anybody notice how many aircraft have just been dropping out of the skies since the FAA was shut down?

Nope...Didn't think so.

DRAT! You beat me to it!

But I have been crying my eyes out about the taxpayer money spigot temporarily turned off for thousands of overpaid government drones.

 

[Divine Wind]

Anybody notice how many aircraft have just been dropping out of the skies since the FAA was shut down?

It only takes one midair to ruin your entire day.

Pilots fly airplanes so, unless their union goes on strike, they'll continue to fly, but without Air Traffic Control (ATC), it will be like all the street lights and traffic signs in a large city evaporating overnight. It'll create huge delays, but not necessarily any accidents.

 

[Rat in the Hat]

GOP To FAA: Drop Dead


The Republican House went on vacation without reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, furloughing 4000 federal workers and stranding tens of thousands of workers who can’t continue already-started construction projects. They are holding reauthorization hostage to provisions that would weaken workers’ collective bargaining rights. This is going to cost $1.2 billion in lost passenger tax revenue. Even Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is blasting the GOP’s negligence.

“We’re getting ready to leave for a month. We should not shut down the FAA because of a rider put on the extension of the FAA legislation that has not been negotiated,” Hutchison said.


“It is not honorable for the House to send an extraneous amendment” on a funding extension, she said.

If these jobs and construction projects are so important, why don't they make the airlines pay for them? After all, they are the ones profiting from them, not the American taxpayers.

 

[Rat in the Hat]

Anybody notice how many aircraft have just been dropping out of the skies since the FAA was shut down?

It only takes one midair to ruin your entire day.

Pilots fly airplanes so, unless their union goes on strike, they'll continue to fly, but without Air Traffic Control (ATC), it will be like all the street lights and traffic signs in a large city evaporating overnight. It'll create huge delays, but not necessarily any accidents.

ATC funding is not being cut. It's only planning and construction employees.

 

[Oddball]

Anybody notice how many aircraft have just been dropping out of the skies since the FAA was shut down?

It only takes one midair to ruin your entire day.

Pilots fly airplanes so, unless their union goes on strike, they'll continue to fly, but without Air Traffic Control (ATC), it will be like all the street lights and traffic signs in a large city evaporating overnight. It'll create huge delays, but not necessarily any accidents.

ATC isn't affected, dude....And thanks for letting the overall point fly clean over your head.

 

[Patrick2]

Anybody notice how many aircraft have just been dropping out of the skies since the FAA was shut down?

It only takes one midair to ruin your entire day.

Pilots fly airplanes so, unless their union goes on strike, they'll continue to fly, but without Air Traffic Control (ATC), it will be like all the street lights and traffic signs in a large city evaporating overnight. It'll create huge delays, but not necessarily any accidents.

That's absurd - the ATC system is manned, the people layed off are desk jockeys.

 

[Divine Wind]

ATC funding is not being cut. It's only planning and construction employees.

Agreed, hence why no airliners are "falling out of the skies".

It looks like the airlines are cleaning up a bit from this:

ww.marketwatch.com/story/some-fliers-could-benefit-from-faa-shutdown-2011-08-02]Some fliers could benefit from FAA shutdown - MarketWatch

That number of entitled passengers is expanding quickly because congressional lawmakers are in the process of leaving for their own holiday until early September, and there are no plans to extend the FAA’s authority before then.

But even if you are one of the entitled, getting your refund could be a bit tricky.

In the past, people entitled to a refund would go to the IRS, just like for refunds for income tax. This time, the agency would prefer the fliers go to the airlines instead.

Airline officials are miffed by this, noting that they are technically a middleman facilitating the tax from their customer to the IRS, and that passengers wanting a refund should go to the government.

 

[Oddball]

GOP To FAA: Drop Dead


The Republican House went on vacation without reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, furloughing 4000 federal workers and stranding tens of thousands of workers who can’t continue already-started construction projects. They are holding reauthorization hostage to provisions that would weaken workers’ collective bargaining rights. This is going to cost $1.2 billion in lost passenger tax revenue. Even Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is blasting the GOP’s negligence.

“We’re getting ready to leave for a month. We should not shut down the FAA because of a rider put on the extension of the FAA legislation that has not been negotiated,” Hutchison said.


“It is not honorable for the House to send an extraneous amendment” on a funding extension, she said.

If these jobs and construction projects are so important, why don't they make the airlines pay for them? After all, they are the ones profiting from them, not the American taxpayers.

Because you need several hundred federal bureaucrats to leech off the system....Y'know, those "saved jobs" thingies.

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

Because of this nonaction, the FAA is not authorized to collect federal taxes. The average intake is $200 million per week. Not sure we are in a position to turn that kind of chump change down.

 

[Trajan]

Lahood can task funds anywhere he wants form the dept. of transportation cine like you know, the FAA is in the dept. of Transportation.

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

Lahood can task funds anywhere he wants form the dept. of transportation cine like you know, the FAA is in the dept. of Transportation.

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[freedombecki]

GOP To FAA: Drop Dead

The Republican House went on vacation without reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, furloughing 4000 federal workers and stranding tens of thousands of workers who can’t continue already-started construction projects. They are holding reauthorization hostage to provisions that would weaken workers’ collective bargaining rights. This is going to cost $1.2 billion in lost passenger tax revenue. Even Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is blasting the GOP’s negligence.

“We’re getting ready to leave for a month. We should not shut down the FAA because of a rider put on the extension of the FAA legislation that has not been negotiated,” Hutchison said.

“It is not honorable for the House to send an extraneous amendment” on a funding extension, she said.

lol. Gas prices have more than doubled under the current administration when gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico was suspended, and no makeup such as drilling at ANWR was requested to fill the potential poorhouse prompter.

Republicans had no say in this administration's pox on the oil patches of America, plus the administration has done nothing to make energy affordable for the masses in whose behalf it says it makes superior decisions.

Let's see some superior decisions in favor of the little guy with regard to lower gasoline prices. It's back to four bucks in some areas of this nation.

 

[Trajan]

Lahood can task funds anywhere he wants form the dept. of transportation cine like you know, the FAA is in the dept. of Transportation.

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what don't you get? the faa is part of the dept. of Trans.