How Do You Reduce Debt And Create Jobs At The Same Time?

Here's another reason for Americans to be proud of it's legislators. Because of Republican Congressmen and Senators and the Airline industry, who are against simple majority votes, concerning unionization of Airline and Railroad workers, they have forced the FAA nearly out of existence. Temporarily the FAA is paying Air Traffic Controllers and Airplane inspectors out of "other sources". For how long this will work, I don't know. But because of this, several things are happening. First the FAA can no longer collect the taxes paid by passengers for flights. Hey sounds great, right? Not so fast. Airlines just raised the price of the tickets the exact amount of the tax, so you're still paying the same price. Funny how that worked out. Only it has cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars so far. And now that the Congress finally got past the debt ceiling thing, they all went home for a month. By the time they return, the government will have lost over one billion dollars in revenue. The FAA had to lay off 4,000 employees which put another 70,000 out of work. How's that for debt reduction and job creation? In a move to temporarily extend the FAA's ability to function, it was decided to stop funding some rural airports. So guess where the Republican controlled house decided to close airports? Only in Democrat's districts. Like Harry Reid's district. It's either that or eliminate the simple majority rule on unionization thing. Does any of this strike a cord? It's something of a hostage deal again. Hey, it worked so well during the debt ceiling negotiations, it looks like that's how the new rules of Congress will work. Yes boys and girls. The minority does control the Congress and the White House. In a way it does sound funny doesn't it? Then again, it's sort of sad to see our government knuckle under to extortion.