"Ostrich" Congress puts head in the sand and votes for debt increase

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Originally Posted by Antitrust32

that is what it will look like if the dems and repubs keep their game going. they do NOT care about the future of this country.

My anger at Congress for leaving the FAA existence hanging? Plus the 90,000 small business contractors currently working for FAA for runway safety construction that had to be furloughed without pay? No pay for food, no pay for car payments, no pay for mortgage?

(Happy August! Were you planning on driving your kid to college this month? Buying school supplies? Paying a tuition payment?)

We are losing 30 million a day in FAA fees? While the airlines are grabbing that up as profit by keeping ticket prices the same?

(and they say consumer protection agencies are not needed, right)

Congress, who was too damn lazy to stay one more day and take care of this (they asked Boehner, he said they'd deal with it when they got back) - well, they have cost us 1.2 billion

1.2 billion. We worry, while they vacation.

Hey Congress? JOBS? You know, here's 94,000 you could have had paid in August. Let alone the 1.2 billion you'll cost us.

Rand Paul is gonna get an earful at his first local town hall You are absolutely correct, they don't care one bit. How dare they do this, to these poor people.

Let's do the math: this happened because GOP wanted 16.5 million in cuts. They are costing us 1.2 billion by doing so.

Reckless, irresponsible, spenders, the GOP. They haven't changed a bit since the Bush years. Demagogue and cost us money, and people their jobs, food, cars ....

Where the hell is the Tea Party on this matter? Oh, they rushed home for vacation.

WASHINGTON — A stalemate that has partially shut down the Federal Aviation Administration will continue into September. A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Senate Democrats were unwilling to accept cuts in subsidies for rural air service.

House Republicans had demanded the $16.5 million in subsidy cuts as part of a bill to continue the FAA's operating authority. Senate Democrats repeatedly tried and failed to pass their own bill without the cuts.

The FAA's operating authority expired 11 days ago, as well as the authority of airlines to collect about $30 million a day in ticket taxes. If allowed to continue until Congress returns to work next month, the cost in lost revenue will be an estimated $1.2 billion.

Nearly 4,000 FAA employees have been laid off.