House ends air traffic controller furloughs
By scorpiobabes
@scorpiobabes (7225)
United States
April 26, 2013 12:10pm CST
Okay, the House ended another group of furloughs in an effort to ease the length of delays. That's nice.
Didn't they conveniently forget that it was their inability to pass a balanced budget that caused the sequester to occur in the first place?
Does anyone else see the irony here? Instead of working on the overall problem, they are dismantling the issue piece by piece. Obviously someone got caught in a too-long line, complained to the right person, and suddenly the problem goes away! How on earth do they think it'll be paid for?
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
26 Apr 13
Actually the House hasn't had any trouble passing budget bills. They've passed several since republicans got control in 2010. The problem is the senate. They're the ones who haven't passed, or even WRITTEN a budget bill in over 5 years.
The thing about the furloughs are that they never had to happen. Obama spent so much time preaching doom and gloom to bully republicans into doing what he wanted that he had to back it up when they called him bluff. Now he could have saved money any number of ways, but he wanted Americans to suffer, so republicans could be blamed. As a result, he decided to furlough air traffic controllers to travelers, many of whom are wealthy and influential, would suffer and demand something be done.
Trust me, the government wastes plenty of money each year, but when budgets are cut, the waste stays and important things are cut. That way the government convinces people that it needs more money.
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@scorpiobabes (7225)
• United States
26 Apr 13
Everyone except those directly affected by the furloughs KNEW they didn't have to happen, but the people with the most power aren't doing anything about the status quo-the registered voters of the United States. WE have the power to vote the Senate and House out of office, yet we continue to let them keep their jobs.
A real boss would have fired them by now-time to send them back to the real world!
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
26 Apr 13
Well the problem is that everyone agrees congress sucks. However, the vast majority of those people think that THEIR congressman is just fine and it's the other 434 of them that are the problem so everyone keeps voting morons into office and blaming the rest of the country for the other morons.
@AidaLily (1450)
• United States
27 Apr 13
The republicans preached the same doom and gloom about anything that goes on. When they are called out on their crap it is suddenly a retraction, I don't remember that, etc. To blame only the president when you have 535 republican and democrats in congress that are both to blame for this mess is just ridiculous.
The problem with the House making budget bills is that the majority doesn't seem to do anything for the people. They are republicans (and some democrats) who have their own interest one way or the other which doesn't sit well for most people. The fact that Obama said he would cave on social security doesn't sit well for most people.
Take social security for example. This has been called a handout and more to people who many years ago were told to pay into this system and if they were unable to save for retirement they would get the money. Then take the fact our congress put their grubby little hands into it.
You guys do realize that some of our deficit is because they owe money to the American people right?
We are over 16 trillion in debt and China the biggest holder in U.S. Debt over any other country and they roughly own 1.2 trillion give or take a bit.
That brings you down to 14.8 trillion owed and nearly everyone in America willing to let these idiots from both parties come up with bills and such to vote on that would most liking eliminate or minimize the debt they owe to Americans. Just point this out, any average joe who did this and they'd be tried and spending time in jail.
And Taskr36 you are right. Everyone believes their congressman is just peachy and the rest are the problem. It also carries over to voting. If the sitting president can't do anything, people vote in the other party and then have the audacity to wonder why nothing is getting done. Of course nothing is going to get done. You voted in the other party that has a completely different set of corporation paychecks.
