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Congress takes aim at shrinking seats, legroom on airplanes
The Federal Aviation Administration would be required to set new minimum requirements for seats on airplanes under legislation to be considered in the House this week, possibly giving passengers a break from ever-shrinking legroom and cramped quarters. (www.yahoo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I hope they look at the dangers of deep vein thrombosis aggravated by tighter seating
The lack of leg room on long haul aircraft is the prime reason I detest flying overseas these days. I'm only 6'1" and find it very uncomfortable so I can only imagine how bad it is for taller people.
Let's address handicap peoples needs for extra room.. and the size of average Americans.
Would be great for Congress to take up this issue, but Congress is driven by big money (Political) and the Airline Industry has huge amounts of Political Money. Study's have shown that Seat Pitch minimums needs to be addressed. Congress will be on the side of the Money so I do not see this issue being addressed.
I have 21 trillion reasons to think Congress ought to spend their time taking aim at shrinking the federal deficit. Besides, those are the same people who said deregulation would solve everything-fast forward to the present day where 4 companies control 80% of the routes in this country.
You can thank the Repugnant's for most of that 21 Trillion and unbridled capitalism which has created virtual monopolies in every industry. Megamergers for "efficiency".... yes absolute efficiency in making maximum profits at the expense of the Consumer with little to no competition and to the detriment of Workers with little choice of alternative employment in a given industry. Companies no longer have to compete for workers when a worker only has a couple corporate choices for employment. No competition equals lower pay.
"W" started a war with Iraq based on a complete lie which has easily added 6 Trillion and counting to the deficit. Wars equal huge profits for the Industrial Military Complex aka corporate welfare, Repugnant style corporate "profits". Like Cheney’s former company Haliburton which decided to go into the "catering" business... to feed ALL our troops in Iraq through a NO BID contract. It was the first time in history that the Military did NOT feed itself!
Trump & the Repugnant's just became the the FIRST Administration to add 1 trillion dollars in a SINGLE year to the defict!! The current Repugnant tax scam will add 10 trillion dollars to the deficit and they are planning part Deux to add more to the deficit, of course only to the benefit of those making over tens of millions per year. It's now legal to write off 100% of your private jet.
If you look at the deficit charts over the last 40 years, the Democrats routinely have lowered the deficit while they're in the office and the Repugnant's have increased it.
Clinton was the last President to run a budget surplus but of course most people don't know that because all they know is about is a certain blow job.
Obama inherited an absolute mess from "W", a near depression; but, over his 8 years consistently LOWERED ANNUAL spending and the annual deficit.
The Repugnant's are the actually the spendaholics and the Democrats are now the conservatives but with the Repugnant disinformation machine running at Full Tilt with unlimited campaign money thanks to the Repugnant Supreme Court appointments voting to allow the Citizens United ruling allowing those unlimited campaign donations by the richest entities in the world (yes even foreign entities and governments can now buy our elections) you can count on more deficits and you can count on the middle class being eliminated if it already isn't. Yet counter-intuitively the middle class keeps voting the Repugnant's in office.
You can't fix stupid and the Repugnant's are doing their best to keep people stupid including siphoning off money from the public school systems to fund charter schools which of course is code language for religious schools.
Okay enough for a reality check and an actionable education lesson, now most of you can go back to your political delusions.
"W" started a war with Iraq based on a complete lie which has easily added 6 Trillion and counting to the deficit. Wars equal huge profits for the Industrial Military Complex aka corporate welfare, Repugnant style corporate "profits". Like Cheney’s former company Haliburton which decided to go into the "catering" business... to feed ALL our troops in Iraq through a NO BID contract. It was the first time in history that the Military did NOT feed itself!
Trump & the Repugnant's just became the the FIRST Administration to add 1 trillion dollars in a SINGLE year to the defict!! The current Repugnant tax scam will add 10 trillion dollars to the deficit and they are planning part Deux to add more to the deficit, of course only to the benefit of those making over tens of millions per year. It's now legal to write off 100% of your private jet.
If you look at the deficit charts over the last 40 years, the Democrats routinely have lowered the deficit while they're in the office and the Repugnant's have increased it.
Clinton was the last President to run a budget surplus but of course most people don't know that because all they know is about is a certain blow job.
Obama inherited an absolute mess from "W", a near depression; but, over his 8 years consistently LOWERED ANNUAL spending and the annual deficit.
The Repugnant's are the actually the spendaholics and the Democrats are now the conservatives but with the Repugnant disinformation machine running at Full Tilt with unlimited campaign money thanks to the Repugnant Supreme Court appointments voting to allow the Citizens United ruling allowing those unlimited campaign donations by the richest entities in the world (yes even foreign entities and governments can now buy our elections) you can count on more deficits and you can count on the middle class being eliminated if it already isn't. Yet counter-intuitively the middle class keeps voting the Repugnant's in office.
You can't fix stupid and the Repugnant's are doing their best to keep people stupid including siphoning off money from the public school systems to fund charter schools which of course is code language for religious schools.
Okay enough for a reality check and an actionable education lesson, now most of you can go back to your political delusions.
What does this have to with how hard is going to be squeezing your butt into an airplane seat?
Ok, so after insulting just about everyone, why don't you get out there and run for office and fix the world. Clearly you think you can better than anyone.
Seat width and pitch are health and safety issues, something well within the proper realm of a regulatory agency in a vibrant capitalist economy. Requiring wider seats to reflect the growing waistlines of passengers and increased pitch to avoid DVT and similar issues, plus assuring passengers can have a strong chance of evacuating an aircraft in the terror and confusion of a major accident seem very reasonable goals—and what a responsible agency would seek.
Government agencies do not function like private enterprise. See “Bureaucracy” by Ludwig Von Mises to understand why we in the private sector have expectations in conflict with the structure and authorities of an agency. Short answer for here: In general, Agencies need the cover of their supervising body (Congress here) to take any controversial action.