On 1 Apr 2007 18:52:42 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote in
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Now you're claiming that the Democrats are the
flag carriers for the lower taxes movement.

What gave you that idea? I'm pointing out that Bush embraces federal
government privatization, and Clinton didn't. Nothing more.

Sometimes I have difficulty comprehending your inferences, CJ. You
seem to jump to erroneous conclusions rather easily. Why is that?

User fees are a dumb idea (because they're an administrative and
fiscal nightmare), but that's what it's going to take to enable ATC
privatization.

Don't get me wrong, it's only equitable for the ATC system users,
pilots and commercial passengers, to fund the ATC system, as they do
now. But wresting our nation's navigable airspace from governmental
control, dismantling the best ATC system on the face of the planet,
and handing it over to a heartless, faceless, corporate entity that
has demonstrated its ruthless history of criminality in obtaining
government contracts in the recent past, is just too arrogant for
words. It's a worse proposition than handing over control of our
nation's sea ports to an Arab corporation!

It is the airlines who are fueling the burgeoning growth of air
operations, not GA. It is the airlines who should shoulder the lion's
share of the NextGen future ATC system; GA should not have the burden
of funding something that is demanded by the airlines; that would be
unjust.

But the airlines don't have the enormous capital resources necessary
to plan, construct, implement, man, test and deploy NextGen ATC, so
they need to remove Congressional oversight of FAA funding in order to
obtain the "blank-check" required to pay for the years of development
required.

Government privatization is just another corporate attempt to
boondoggle our government out of its peoples' tax dollars, at the
expense of public accountability. Corporations don't participate in
Freedom of Information Act transparency. ...


Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts.
-- Larry Dighera,