FAA workers are screwed. With the debt-limit deal out of the way - it's time for Congress to resolve the FAA funding impasse right? No. Instead of figuring out a way to restore full funding to the agency in charge of making sure our airplanes don't fall out of the sky - and also figuring out a way to get 4,000 furloughed FAA employees back to work - Republicans are going on vacation.
That's right - they're taking 5 weeks off - meaning the FAA will be sputtering along through Labor Day while Republicans yuck it up in their home districts. With the FAA shutdown - airline safety inspectors are working extended hours without pay - and $2.5 billion in transportation projects are on hold - meaning another 100,000 construction workers are out of a job too. Not only that - as Republicans scream about deficits - our government is losing out on $200 million a week in uncollected airline ticket taxes.
Let's hope it never happens - but if a plane goes down this month - call Speaker Boehner.
-Thom
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