The congress has reacted quickly to the FAA's (and possibly the administration's) ploy to inflict pain on the public in order to force a political solution to the nation's economic problems.
The Senate
passed a law allowing the FAA to use funds designated for other purposes to pay
the air traffic controllers and to keep the planes flying. This took some of
the wind out of the administration's sails. Some have commented that the FAA
always had this authority and I guess the congress is forcing the issue. I
wonder which public service the FAA will now claim is missing $250 million
dollars in order to inflict more pain on the public. Of one thing you can be
sure: The last people to feel the pain of layoffs will be those who do the
least and are paid the most: the bureacrats.
More than the
quote from Congressman Lankford, I love the rebuttal better.
In a reflection
of the political undercurrents, another House Republican, Rep. James Lankford
of Oklahoma, said FAA employees "are being used as pawns by this (Obama)
administration to be able to implement the maximum amount of pain on the
American people when it does not have to be this way."
The White House and congressional Democrats vociferously dispute such
claims.
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