Republican Ideology and the FAA

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)