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US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say

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Re: US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say

#21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course the deep state would have a well-crafted and equitable contingency plan.

> the deep state What does this even mean?

A term for unelected federal employees that have enough autonomy that they carry on what they're doing regardless of which party is in power.

Which sounds kind of ominous but really, it's just the civil service.

Re: US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course the deep state would have a well-crafted and equitable contingency plan.

> the deep state What does this even mean?

I used it tongue in cheek. It is a right wing pejorative for career government employees.

Re: US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say

#24

Ironically this might be one of the most green actions the US has ever made

In 2001, they grounded almost all air traffic for about three days. It would take take a while for this move to catch up to that.

Re: US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say

#25

Ironically this might be one of the most green actions the US has ever made

In 2001, they grounded almost all air traffic for about three days. It would take take a while for this move to catch up to that.

Don't we have more daily flights than compared to 2001?

Re: US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say

#28

I'm in favor of cutting air traffic at night.

I suppose some people must enjoy being woken up by an explosion of jet engines in the middle of the night. Victims are blamed for having ears and living within 50 miles of an airfield. Some airports do seem have "curfews", say from 1 to 5 a.m., so you can get 4 hours of sleep. How generous.

While we're cutting budgets, I'd like to cut the budget for constant and unnecessarily loud sirens for emergency vehicles as well. "Oh great, there's another emergency.... somewhere..."

It is a shame that the EPA doesn't actually enforce any noise pollution regulations.

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