Washington – Efforts to avert a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration failed Friday amid a disagreement over a $16.5 million cut in subsidies to 13 rural communities, ensuring that nearly 4,000 people will be temporarily out of work and federal airline ticket taxes will be suspended.
Lawmakers were unable to resolve a partisan dispute over an extension of the agency's operating authority, which expired at midnight Friday.
They can go on unemployment and food stamps just like the rest of us have, and start up their own businesses since no one is hiring just like the rest of us have.
ReplyDeleteAnd it will lower taxes in hard times, just what we need right now.