Break it & then privatize it

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4bonhoffer (373) Posts

Break it & then privatize it

Randi Rhodes & Thom Hartmann have been pointing out for years that the republican game plan is to scream about how government doesn’t work and then when you are in power you screw up as much as possible so that agencies that used to function just fine no longer work. Then you tell people, see government doesn’t work, we need to privatize it as much as possible. Then you get kickbacks from the private companies that you hire to run the government agencies that used to work just fine. From social security to the post office to the VA and FAA. They want to privatize everything.

Make sure it no longer works so that the public will go along with our privatization schemes. They have literally been doing this every time they have power.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221646559

New DUmmie trying to score points by throwing out names that are not relevant anymore....🙄🙄

[SVPete]

4bonhoffer should have done a little research, :

Nav Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nav_Canada

Nav Canada (styled as NAV CANADA) is a privately run, non-profit corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation system (ANS). It was established by statute in accordance with the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act (ANS Act).

The company employs approximately 1,900 air traffic controllers (ATCs), 650 flight service specialists (FSSs) and 700 technologists. It has been responsible for the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic in Canadian airspace since 1 November 1996 when the government transferred the ANS from Transport Canada to Nav Canada. As part of the transfer, or privatization, Nav Canada paid the government CA$1.5 billion.

Nav Canada manages 12 million aircraft movements a year for 40,000 customers in over 18 million square kilometres (6.9 million square miles), making it the world's second-largest air navigation service provider (ANSP) by traffic volume.

My emphasis. Canada's private system is the world's second largest. Even if 4bonhoffer's CT has an element of truth - Congress would have to enact a privatization, so the CT should be taken with a Himalayan-sized block of salt - at least two major nations' air traffic systems are privatized.

[SVPete]

If DUmmies and all Dems generally gave and actual @#$% about our dinosaurian ATC system, they'd be demanding to know why 30 years of Congresses - the people who pass budgets that authorize spending - have let the ATC system deteriorate from obsolescent/obsolete to its current state.

But, no, they are blaming Trump for decades of neglect and calling for Sean Duffy's head, despite the fact that they can only spend what Congress authorizes.

[SVPete]

Democrats Hope You Forget This About the Last Nationwide FAA Ground Stop

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/11/14/democrats-hope-you-forget-this-about-the-last-nationwide-faa-ground-stop-n4959359

It was inevitable that Democrats would politicize Friday's FAA ground stop, and they didn't disappoint. The loudest critics turned out to be the people with the least standing to complain.

The FAA ordered the stop just before 4 p.m. on Friday, and the cancellations quickly snowballed at the major hubs (LaGuardia and JFK in New York among them). The order was in place for just over four hours. Following the order, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked Congress for another $50 billion to replace the aging air traffic control and communications systems. ...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed the ground stop anyway. Buttigieg, a 2020 presidential candidate and possible 2028 contender, took his shot at the start of his remarks at the "What's Next" conference in Colorado on Friday night.

For sure, nationwide ground stops are extremely rare. Before Friday, there had been exactly two. The first followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The second came in January 2023, when a broken pilot notification system grounded flights nationwide.

Who was president at the time?

That's right, Joe Biden.

Guess who ran the Transportation Department at the time.

That’s right, Pete Buttigieg.

He probably doesn’t want you to remember that.
...
Buttigieg had four years, a mountain of infrastructure money, and his own nationwide ground stop to learn from. If he "got to work," where are the results?

Even Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel went after him online.

"No one's hands are clean here," Emanuel wrote. "However, Mr. Secretary Buttigieg, you had four years in the job and infrastructure money, yet made zero progress modernizing the FAA. You left a failing system in place."

Of course, "Mayor Pete" could not, in just two years (from the shutdown in  January 2023 to when Trump entered office in January 2025) have totally overhauled the whole ATC system, but what if anything, did he do? Ari Emanuel  (guess whose brother he is) appears to be saying that little or nothing was done. "Mayor Pete", like many/most top level LIEden officials, was a check-off-box, not a competence, hire.

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Randi Rhodes & Thom Hartmann have been pointing out for years that the republican game plan is to scream about how government doesn’t work and then when you are in power you screw up as much as possible so that agencies that used to function just fine no longer work.