Pitiful

Congress went home after spending a few weeks fighting with each other about the debt ceiling and then doing what we all knew they would do in the first place. What they did not do was their job.

They haven’t funded the FAA for months and months and left town without funding them at least until September when they return from vacation. This means that somewhere around 4,000 FAA safety inspectors and workers are without pay. Not without a job – oh no – The congress still expects them to do their job and has told the public that the inspectors would go right on inspecting and safety would not be compromised.

They expect the FAA inspectors to work for free and pay their own expenses. Let me say that again because the idiocy of that statement may not have sunk in: They expect the 4,000 highly trained federal air safety workers to continue to work without a paycheck and to put all their travel, motel and food expenses on their personal credit cards.

If it wasn’t so infuriating it would be funny. Congress, who would not consider working for a nanosecond without full pay, benefits (including free health care) and month long vacations expects middle class dedicated federal workers to just work for nothing.

Meanwhile, they have done nothing to fix the controller shortage or the fact that controllers are literally falling asleep at their positions from overwork.

Most members of congress spend a lot of their time doing two things. First, they ride on donated business jets from place to place. Second, they spend hours talking about fat cat rich companies and how terrible it is that they have business jets. All that congress can be counted on not to do is their jobs.

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