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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:07:05 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:52:22 GMT, (John Kulp) wrote in : a. why is the FAA going ahead with the building of the system? The former Clinton administration opposed ATC privatization. It also opposed social security privatization which the Swedes have done quite well The current administration wants to privatize virtually every government service. In the case of the FAA, privatization would enable FAA to cut their workforce significantly, dodge liability exposure, and open the federal coffers to by outsourcing to big business. How does that work? Why wouldn't the government just be getting out of the business? Big business benefits from government privatization. Consider Halliburton's contract to do the Army's laundry in Iraq[1] for example. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Depends on the contract. Privatization also removes government accountability; private corporations are not subject to FOIA requests, for example. Why should the government be accountable for something they are no longer doing. Private corporations are subject to their auditors, customers, Sarbanes-Oxley and a whole host of other things. b. why are the airlines backing that change? The airline industry, including the airliner manufacturers, would like nothing better than to remove congressional FAA budget oversight, and wrest the balanced governmental allocation of National Airspace System resources from US citizens, so that they can advance their air carrier agenda at the expense of other airspace users. Airliner manufacturer, Boeing, is also in the privatized ATC business.[2] Why not if they can do it better and cheaper than the government, which is a virtual sure thing. Who else but the government do you know that is still using WWII technology like the FAA? |
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