Trump should be concerned. That will reduce the park’s value when he tries to sell it off to developers.
The leopards shall feast on face!
You do realize that a) what you’re proposing for air traffic controllers would mean that the government develop a contracting scope of work; issue a request for proposals; evaluate the proposals; award the contract and monitor the contractors’ performance; and all of that would have be done by federal employees; and that b) that process would take many months, if not years, while the problem of air traffic controllers not being paid is an immediate problem; and c) some federal contractors are not being paid for their work during the shutdown, but unlike furloughed federal workers, most of these contractors are not still required to go to work so that your solution would be worse than the current state of affairs because now we have air traffic controllers at work who aren’t getting paid, but your way would result in no air traffic controllers actually showing up for work; and that d) even if the job was done by contractors, their work and payment for said work would still be done by federal workers?
So to recap, your solution to an immediate crisis of air traffic controllers not getting paid is to introduce a months long process that has to be carried out by federal workers (which could not be done until the government reopens) that would result in the job function currently being carried out by people not being paid, but at least still showing up for work to not be carried out at all.
Do you ever think before you post?
Thinking slows down his writing.
Miami airport to close terminal as gov shutdown continues
Airports are starting to close, y’all.
There was an air controller strike during the Reagan administration. I wondered at the time why he didn’t use military aircraft controllers.
The National Archives are closed. I’m researching the 1964 Wilderness Act for my MA thesis and need access to those documents. It’s a small thing in the grand scheme of things and personally it’s an inconvenience to me, but that’s a lot of people that aren’t working or being paid.
The National Forests are closed as well. That’s a huge part of our local economy.
- They already have responsibilities; and
- There are not enough of them.
According to this Wiki article, he did.
Bolding mine.
The article goes on to state that it took 10 years before staffing returned to pre-strike levels. Do we really want to go through this crap again?
Most of them are in their early twenties with only a couple of years of training. That’s fine for the military but not really good for Atlanta or Chicago.
It can take upwards of year of training for even a good controller to move to a new airport.
What a coincidence, there seems to be a bug going around. First it got the TSA workers, now the ATCs? Jesus, it seems to be spreading.
Conservativism slavery in a nutshell. Didn’t they tell us for 50 years this is the sort of thing which would happen if the Left took over - that the capable would be forced to work, while the “looters” and “moochers” would take the day off? Looks like “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need (maybe)” is conservative policy now.
Maybe the CDC should look into it. Oh wait…
ETA: Never mind, it turns out the CDC is funded.
There would be a brief disturbance, but the private sector is capable of keeping planes safe in the air. They already do 99.9% of that job as designers, manufacturers and maintenance providers.
… paid for, and regulated by, the US government.
And I’m planning on leaving for vacation tomorrow morning. Fuck.
Really?? The designers, manufacturers and maintenance providers are qualified in air-traffic control?!? Who knew…
:smack:
Any idea of how many mid-air collisions and fatal crashes might happen during this “brief disturbance”? What would, in your humble opinion, be can acceptable amount of fatalities?
It’s different, though! It’s the Private Sector! And, you know… FREEDOM!
Free-DUMB! It is our worship word! You will not speak it!
I’d sure hate to get one of these: Federal workers get $0 pay stubs as shutdown drags on.