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This is the conservative playbook. Cut funding until the entity can't run properly, then yell JEEZ GUYS YOU REALLY SUCK wHY DON'T WE SHUT YOU DOWN The previous

by shmatt 4y ago

This is the conservative playbook. Cut funding until the entity can't run properly, then yell JEEZ GUYS YOU REALLY SUCK wHY DON'T WE SHUT YOU DOWN The previous president significantly cut the FAA's budget, maybe we're just seeing now how that affects us in the long term

pookha 4y ago
Large complex systems don't work.
- ceejayoz 4y ago
  That's demonstrably untrue.
brookst 4y ago
Aka the “I’m going to break all my toys to force mommy to buy me new ones I like better” mentality, projected into chronological adulthood.
- nerdponx 4y ago
  Not quite. This is more like breaking all the toys in the playpen because you don't like that other kids get to play with them.
drstewart 4y ago
Presidents don't pass budgets, Congress does. There's a neat trick people do nowadays where people claim anything that's unsuccessful (usually government related) was either "sabotaged" or "set up to fail" as a way of absolving them of any failures. Literally impossible to criticize. Finally, the FAA's budget was $23 billion this year and $28 billion last year due to pandemic / infra surpluses, nearly double what it was the last 4 years, where it remained flat (not cut as you say). So it's funny how 2 years of double funding can't get it back on track, but flat funding has caused it to fall apart in the same time period.
SamPatt 4y ago
I'm not a conversative. Presidents don't pass budgets. FAA funding has increased, not decreased. I can criticize my government all I want. You're turning this into a political party thing when it's a government service failure.
- ceejayoz 4y ago
  Presidents propose budgets (the CBO even uses the term "the President's budget"; https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58417 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58417), sign them into law, threaten Congress with vetos, and have significant influence over their party as a whole. Trump in particular was successful in drubbing opponents out of office; Liz Cheney went from #3 in House leadership to a pariah largely overnight.
  - roamerz 4y ago
    >> Liz Cheney went from #3 in House leadership to a pariah largely overnight. Seems to run in the family. The voters in Wyoming appear to agree.
  - factsarelolz 4y ago
    > Liz Cheney went from #3 in House leadership to a pariah largely overnight. Oh it's Trump fault Liz did what she did? Nope. Liz thought she'd make a name for herself, she did, and is reaping the results of her actions.
    - ceejayoz 4y ago
      Whatever you think of her actions, her journey (and similar for a variety of other anti-Trump Republicans) illustrates the power a President can have over Congress. This has pretty clear implications for the budget process.
      - butlerm 4y ago
        Trump was not President at the time of the Liz Cheney leadership controversy, that was after he was out of office. Trump is not President anymore and no one should pretend that he is.
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by shmatt 4y ago

pookha 4y ago

Large complex systems don't work.

ceejayoz 4y ago
That's demonstrably untrue.

brookst 4y ago

Aka the “I’m going to break all my toys to force mommy to buy me new ones I like better” mentality, projected into chronological adulthood.

nerdponx 4y ago
Not quite. This is more like breaking all the toys in the playpen because you don't like that other kids get to play with them.

drstewart 4y ago

Presidents don't pass budgets, Congress does. There's a neat trick people do nowadays where people claim anything that's unsuccessful (usually government related) was either "sabotaged" or "set up to fail" as a way of absolving them of any failures. Literally impossible to criticize. Finally, the FAA's budget was $23 billion this year and $28 billion last year due to pandemic / infra surpluses, nearly double what it was the last 4 years, where it remained flat (not cut as you say). So it's funny how 2 years of double funding can't get it back on track, but flat funding has caused it to fall apart in the same time period.

SamPatt 4y ago

I'm not a conversative. Presidents don't pass budgets. FAA funding has increased, not decreased. I can criticize my government all I want. You're turning this into a political party thing when it's a government service failure.

ceejayoz 4y ago
Presidents propose budgets (the CBO even uses the term "the President's budget"; https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58417 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58417), sign them into law, threaten Congress with vetos, and have significant influence over their party as a whole. Trump in particular was successful in drubbing opponents out of office; Liz Cheney went from #3 in House leadership to a pariah largely overnight.
- roamerz 4y ago
  >> Liz Cheney went from #3 in House leadership to a pariah largely overnight. Seems to run in the family. The voters in Wyoming appear to agree.
- factsarelolz 4y ago
  > Liz Cheney went from #3 in House leadership to a pariah largely overnight. Oh it's Trump fault Liz did what she did? Nope. Liz thought she'd make a name for herself, she did, and is reaping the results of her actions.
  - ceejayoz 4y ago
    Whatever you think of her actions, her journey (and similar for a variety of other anti-Trump Republicans) illustrates the power a President can have over Congress. This has pretty clear implications for the budget process.
    - butlerm 4y ago
      Trump was not President at the time of the Liz Cheney leadership controversy, that was after he was out of office. Trump is not President anymore and no one should pretend that he is.

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