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Airport towers get temporary reprieve
Airport towers get temporary reprieve............. (edition.cnn.com) Más...No question about it. We sat down at the end of last year and did what we always do and that was to look at our budget for the new year (A BUDGIT, IMAGINE THAT)!. We are spending over 4% less in 2013 by things like negotiating better rates for utilities, insurance, where and how we purchase groceries, tradeing a gas hog vehicle for a used econo car, eliminating a lawn service, and renegotiating our mortgage. How simple would it be to cut federal spending by 3%? The federal government reminds me of my storage shed. If I get rid of the usless junk I never use, more useless junk fills it up again! Gotta go now, I actually have to produce something to get compensated.
More Government Propaganda ......*yawn*
I work at a contract tower slated to close on April 7th. When I was here 25 years ago as an FAA controller (before the tower was contracted out),we had 10 controllers, a supervisor, and a manager. Now, in contractor world, there are 5 of us, one of whom is the Manager who is REQUIRED by the FAA to spend 20 hours a week doing paperwork downstairs. We make $10,000-25,000 less than an FAA controller. This is the most efficient contracted-out operation in the government, and they want to close it down.Go figure. Everyone needs to contact their Congressman NOW, before it is too late. Safety WILL be negatively affected!
Obviously the FAA leadership should be impeached if they can't do the job on $16.8 billion this year as opposed to "only" $16 billion last year. If public safety is impaired and this shown to be a political gambit, they should be charged criminally.