Take away pay from house & senate members while the government is shut down, they don’t deserve the special treatment. Then we’ll see how fast this all gets resolved.
People keep suggesting this without thinking it through
Many congress members are quite wealthy. They could easily go without their salary at all, for their entire tenure. These people tend to make money off stock trading (at suspiciously high rates, but that’s a different discussion), in addition to other investments and “consulting” generating revenue for them
There are, however, at least a few congress members that are not independently wealthy. Those members are actually working class and rely on their salary to live. Those people are the ones that will be squeezed without a paycheck
What do you think the end result of that will be?
The wealthy members of congress will be able to use shutdowns as a bludgeon to force the working class members to vote in line with them. The wealthy can hold out indefinitely. The working class can only hold out until rent is past-due
Long term, I’d expect to see two other knock-on effects. Working class members of congress will be heavily incentivized to start making very good stock picks to have backup income, or more outright corruption. The second effect would be a chilling effect on working class candidates even running for congress
Does that sound like a positive outcome? Are those the incentives you want in congress?
Train the house and senate to do air traffuc control work.
“Plane crashes up 3000%”
But some how they are all Boeing planes.
Cut only private jets.
Thanks for the laugh!
I’m still trying to process the fact that a moron known for being on “The Real World” is Transportation Secretary. And it’s been months.
Everything is just so. Fucking. Stupid.
Idk what the real world means in this context.
The Real World is an ongoing reality show on MTV. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was in the 1997 season that took place in Boston Massachusetts.
I’m so glad I’m flying to one of the nations busiest airports next week.
Just in time for the holidays, I’m here for it. Time for the middle class to wake the fuck up.
The shutdown accelerated this, but it’s far from the root cause. Even when it lifts, it’s still on a bad trajectory.
Can’t reduce training standards without causing lots of other problems.
Automation in older ways is possible but complicated. More modern AI would be a disaster. Though they might try.
There isn’t really an answer. Air travel can’t continue as it was, and there aren’t enough plans for trains to come close to making up for it.
If you’re a right wing libertarian or neoliberal who believes that governments are always corrupt, inefficient and incompetent, the best way to prove yourself right is to ensure that the government is always corrupt, inefficient and incompetent.
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Thanks trump! Thanks Rs!
Took them long enough, it seems. Apparently lack of traffic controllers wasn’t preventing flights last week.
