GOP Blames Obama For Delaying Flights

GOP Blames Obama For Delaying Flights


The delays, which were attributed to the furloughing of Federal Aviation Administration employees, forced waits of more than two hours at New York City and Washington D.C. airports.

Before some morning flights could even land, Republicans were quick to place the blame on President Obama. On Twitter, GOP aides pushed the hashtag #ObamaFlightDelays. Calls came from several top offices for the president to use his authority to redirect the cuts, and some members and campaign committees accused the administration of trying to make a political point at the inconvenience of everyday travelers.

A month-and-a-half after the mandatory budget cuts were initiated, Monday's response was the sharpest round of sequester-related attacks by Republicans since they collectively bemoaned the ending of White House tours.

Yet since those White House tours ended, the economic ramifications of sequestration have been felt in many, and more substantive, ways. Private cancer clinics have denied Medicare patients, Head Start has closed its doors to students, and military students have lost their tuition assistance. That no hashtag campaigns were birthed from those cuts left ample space for pushback.

Barack Obama and his family cost the taxpayer $1.4billion per year, according to a recently published book.

This means paying for hundreds of Secret Service agents, travel in the secure space of Air Force and funding a team of doctors to follow Mr Obama around.
Read more: Obama family 'costs taxpayers $1.4BILLION per year' | Mail Online

So if Obama and his family just reduced by $140 million a year that would keep all the air traffic controllers working.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the union that represents about 15,000 civilian controllers employed at FAA facilities,
confirmed on Sunday that the furloughs had begun. The budget cuts required by the federal sequester
led the FAA to require controllers to take one day off without pay for every 10 work days.
FAA Cuts Threaten to Worsen Air Delays - WSJ.com

One day out of 10 is equal to 1,500 controllers. At $100,000/year salary that equals $150 million or about 10% of Obama's $1.4 billion cost to tax payers!!!
 

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