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The Huffington Post has reported that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing 149 air traffic control towers at America’s airports.
The FAA is laying off or furloughing so many air traffic controllers that they will stop operations at 149 airports out of about 500 total airports.
That is a huge blow to air safety in America.
Although most of these closures are at small airports, many are extremely important like the air traffic controllers who serve New Mexico’s capital city – Santa Fe.
The sequester is a wholly radical rightwing Republican effort to eviscerate the federal budget.
The sequester is radical rightwing extortion against the nation and the President and anyone reading this post.
The sequester required across the board budget cuts that included CRITICAL CUTS to the military, food safety, and airport safety amongst many other critical federal government functions.
IT IS IMPORTANT for us all to remember and remind our family, co-workers, and friends that the sequester is another BLOW TO OUR ECONOMY created for no good reason by radical rightwing Republicans in the U S Congress.
The radical rightwing Republicans in Congress have stopped infrastructure investment which would have made our economy more productive and put tens of thousands of unemployed Americans to work with good paying jobs. They stopped the climate change bill which would have created tens of thousands of good paying jobs building sustainable and renewable sources of energy like wind and solar. The radical rightwing Republicans at every level of government have unnecessarily laid off thousands and thousands of public workers.
The radical rightwingers are trying to destroy the economy and Obama’s Presidency. They are more than happy to undermine America for political gain. That is economic treason.
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