Chicken Little report: The head of the Transportation Department today threatened long delays if the sequestration cuts take place March 1.
Either he is lying or he has decided to make the most harmful cuts to hurt the public the most. Sequestration will lower the budget of the FAA by 8.2 percent, which will cut that agency’s budget from $18.7 to $17.2 billion, which is still more than the FAA got in 2009, by $300 million. I don’t remember long delays and limited airport operations at that time, do you? See here for my sources.
There is no reason to shut down operations or cause significant travel delays, unless LaHood wants to cause pain so that the money flow keeps pouring in.
Update: One more comment. It took me all of five minutes of research to come up with the past budgets of the FAA to give the sequestration cuts some context. I think it disgraceful that the reporter for this story couldn’t do the same.
Think of the sequester as your local school board trying to get a tax increase through.
They always toss the worst possible case out there in order to get the people to their side.
Like busing will be cut. or class sizes will be increased or teachers fired.
no evidence for any of it but they just toss it out as ONE possibility without saying that’s its just one possibility.And the worst one at that.
Firefighters and first responders are going to lose their jobs despite the taxes that pay their checks coming from local and state governments. You think a constitutional law professer would know that…