US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
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US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
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Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#2What is Trump's endgame here? Everyone stranded for Thanksgiving, poor kids going hungry, all for...what, exactly?
Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#3Remember, the pain this is causing everyone means less to the people in power than does the benefits of this shutdown (to them). We can argue about what those benefits are all day long, but they wouldn't be refusing to have discussions with the Dems if there were not some benefit, be it political power they can wield, or whatever.
Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#4It's wild ATC isn't funded by use fees instead of being appropriated by congress. Seems like a good opportunity to provide some mechanism so the government has to shit or get off the pot, because if the government won't do the job the airlines would surely be glad to pay for the service themselves.
Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#5What is Trump's endgame here? Everyone stranded for Thanksgiving, poor kids going hungry, all for...what, exactly?
To own the libs, apparently.
Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#6What is Trump's endgame here? Everyone stranded for Thanksgiving, poor kids going hungry, all for...what, exactly?
Their goal, since they 80's, has been to make government look incompetent so they can privatize it and use as a weapon against their adversaries (who they argue want "big government").
Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#7What is Trump's endgame here? Everyone stranded for Thanksgiving, poor kids going hungry, all for...what, exactly?
Their goal, since they 80's, has been to make government look incompetent so they can privatize it and use as a weapon against their adversaries (who they argue want "big government").
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Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#8why are traffic controllers government employees at all? wouldn't it be better for the government to maintain a standards/licensing body and only have a couple on staff as a "traffic controllers of last resort" during emergencies?
when an traffic controller quits, what job can they go to? clearly not another airport
Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#9What is Trump's endgame here? Everyone stranded for Thanksgiving, poor kids going hungry, all for...what, exactly?
Trump has no remaining mental powers and is not orchestrating this shutdown.
Re: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
#10Curbing air traffic at major airports by 10% -- seems like this change alone would cause enough upheaval and disruption to everyday operations that it would offset any incremental relief from slightly lower traffic volume.