On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:53:16 GMT, "Neil Gould"
wrote in
:

Recently, Larry Dighera posted:

Bush administration propaganda? Could it be?

[...]

From what I've read/heard of the FAA's push for NextGen ATC
technology, it would seem that they are using every propaganda tactic
they can think of to permit aircraft manufacturers and air carriers to
hijack the US ATC system (and imposing user fees and privatization)
under the guise of addressing the delays.

See if you don't agree:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/trans...ays_08-07.html
(audio and video are available)

I would agree that one general Republican agenda item is to get government
out of "business activities", and in some cases this may be a Good Thing.

It would seem to me, that the Bush administration wants to create
lucrative businesses for private corporations by privatizing
inherently government functions. What sort of government
privatization would you characterize as a Good Thing?

However, I read this article as clueless adherence to a bad plan.

I read/heard it as delivering the heavily airline influenced party
line despite its absurdity.

The hub system is the issue because it overloads a few airports and backs up the
rest of the system (one point mentioned in the article, btw).

The air carriers' dogged adherence to the hub-and-spoke system may
have been mentioned, but it was not emphasized nor addressed.

In short, hubs don't work,

The work to a point. Once the hub airports are saturated, that system
results in delays.

and the proposed solutions attack the wrong issues as
though they are the problem.

Exactly. It is that propaganda that I find so revealing of the
airline industry's political influence on the Bush administration.

It should be no surprise that such
"solutions" are brought to us by the same idiots that brought us the
"troop surge" in Iraq, yet another example of attacking the wrong issue
while having no impact on the real problems.


It's pretty clear that the Bush administration has an agenda to enrich
Halliburton and the Carlyle Group stock holders and insiders through
non-competitive bid contracts.