RE: House GOP bill would cut FAA's budget 5 percent (HuffPo/AP 9/9/2011)
Now, before you go bellyaching and tooting your horns about the public safety and other abstractions of that sort, I would just like to say to you libs that I concur wholeheartedly with the GOP's approach to this meddlesome agency, the FAA. As a driver of automobiles who considers every stop sign in the Great State of Texas an unbearable infringement of his sacred personal liberties, I can empathize with all the hard-working commercial and private airline pilots out there who are faced with a perpetual stream of orders issued from a bunch of round-spectacled bureaucrats sitting comfortably up in some elitist controller-tower connected to the airport by government fiat. 5% isn't much, but it's a start, I say.
Yes, all government is bad and it's always the problem, not the solution. Because you know, if you're an airline pilot, the most dreadful thing that could possibly pass into your ears is one of those bespectacled bureaucrats' voices intoning, "Hello Captain, I'm from the government and I'm here to help you land that double-decker jumbo jet you've been flying for the last seven hours." Right! As if some guy sitting in a control tower is going to know anything of use to a busy, weary pilot tasked with transporting two or three hundred souls from one end of the globe to another! If you believe that, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that Acorn wants to sell you. You libs never learn!
Signed,
Baggasaurus Tex
(Name changed to prevent a punch in the snout)
Dear Tex,
ReplyDeleteBut, but, but, didn't you know? Human sacrifice is good for you! At least the cephalopod and the saurischian are on the right side of the Pleistocene divide.
Octo,
ReplyDeleteWasn't able to comment on your new post -- there's a problem with the comments field. Anyhow, I can't understand why it isn't illegal to charge people for something that's free. One patron walks into the DMV and buys a card for 28 dollars, and the next one gets it for nothing?
Dino,
ReplyDeleteIn business law, I believe a commercial establishment that charges a different price to different customers would be in violation of any number of statutes ranging from discrimination to price gouging. If the establishment is a dominant player in a given market, anti-trust laws would come into play, i.e. unfair competition and restraint of trade. However, government as a sovereign entity can get with crap that would get any commercial enterprise into deep doo-doo. And Fascist Republicans represent another quantum leap in terms of unfair and unethical treatment. I think this Wisconsin mess is an extreme outlier run by outrageous liars.