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07-28-2011, 07:27 AM
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For instance if you have a typical ATL M88 B raw score of 354 and have another 4 day tomorrow then it's still 354. Tomorrow it will jump to 401.
Yes. For anyone wondering, triple digit raw scores are common now on ATL M88 B but none of them break 70 hours. It is hell. I feel very sorry for Jesse. I think he was contemplating throwing himself down the stairwell at the crewroom to have a break. but I'm sure the company doctor would've fixed him up and put him back out on the line. It's very sad.
I wouldn't bid this if you don't really hate yourself with a passion.
07-28-2011, 07:34 AM
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07-28-2011, 07:36 AM
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Just a little backfiring. Must be a bad piston.
07-28-2011, 07:40 AM
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Bad magneto.
07-28-2011, 07:41 AM
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The fact it has gotten to this point already is a disgrace in ever sense of the word. If a budget is not signed by the deadline this will be the first economic crisis created entirely by the bureaucracy down in Washington.
As for the taxes and fees are industry sustains to the federal coffers, I would really like to see an exact annual budget for the FAA on an annual basis.
I mean we pay $1.642 Billion every from our ticket sales, and that seems really big numbers. I understand the agency cannot sustain itself to run and needs revenue coming in for various projects and needs, but collecting $1.642 Billion off the hard work of our employs seems exploitative to me.
As for the taxes and fees are industry sustains to the federal coffers, I would really like to see an exact annual budget for the FAA on an annual basis.
I mean we pay $1.642 Billion every from our ticket sales, and that seems really big numbers. I understand the agency cannot sustain itself to run and needs revenue coming in for various projects and needs, but collecting $1.642 Billion off the hard work of our employs seems exploitative to me.
I think it could be managed a lot more wisely so that you don't have to fly around with your gear out at 3000' to burn fuel in December so that your fuel allowance for next year isn't cut. The system is broken if the incentives within the government is to waste money or fear losing your budget next year.
Not to mention a budget cut of 5% isn't a cut of 5% but a cut of growth by 5%. if you're growing 10% next year then a 5% budget cut is still a 5% increase yoy. Do that with the big budget and that's considered an inhumane draconian cut.
I think the D.C. problem could be fixed if congress' lucrative pensions were eradicated.
btw, let them fight it out in congress. not all fights are bad ones and this certainly is not a bad fight. as to the faa's budget, why do i have a sneaking suspicion nobody had to be furloughed?
07-28-2011, 07:44 AM
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Hypocrisy at it's best. The govt is just ticked someone else's hand is in the cookie jar & they can't do squat about it. Maybe they should focus on our country not defaulting on our loans, or getting the FAA taken care of. 
If those morons in Washington could do anything other then fight, they'd be collecting their precious taxes right now!!
If those morons in Washington could do anything other then fight, they'd be collecting their precious taxes right now!!
07-28-2011, 08:22 AM
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07-28-2011, 08:23 AM
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By the way, when they talk of trillions of dollars someone in the paper had a good example.
A billion seconds ago and Pete Rose was playing baseball and Jimmy Carter was President.
A trillion seconds ago and Woolly Mammoths roamed the earth in mass. It is 32,000 years ago.
It'd be another 30,000 years before the first basic pyramid even showed up in Egypt.
Supposedly the obligations the government has promised totals around 60 or possibly 100 trillion dollars with a debt of 14.5 trillion. This year along we're making 2.2 trillion in tax revenue and spending 3.6 trillion.
Not political. just showing what trillions is.
A billion seconds ago and Pete Rose was playing baseball and Jimmy Carter was President.
A trillion seconds ago and Woolly Mammoths roamed the earth in mass. It is 32,000 years ago.
It'd be another 30,000 years before the first basic pyramid even showed up in Egypt.
Supposedly the obligations the government has promised totals around 60 or possibly 100 trillion dollars with a debt of 14.5 trillion. This year along we're making 2.2 trillion in tax revenue and spending 3.6 trillion.
Not political. just showing what trillions is.
07-28-2011, 08:28 AM
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One thing for sure, we need to get rid of baseline budgeting. A guaranteed budget increases yoy no matter what?
I think it could be managed a lot more wisely so that you don't have to fly around with your gear out at 3000' to burn fuel in December so that your fuel allowance for next year isn't cut. The system is broken if the incentives within the government is to waste money or fear losing your budget next year.
Not to mention a budget cut of 5% isn't a cut of 5% but a cut of growth by 5%. if you're growing 10% next year then a 5% budget cut is still a 5% increase yoy. Do that with the big budget and that's considered an inhumane draconian cut.
I think the D.C. problem could be fixed if congress' lucrative pensions were eradicated.
btw, let them fight it out in congress. not all fights are bad ones and this certainly is not a bad fight. as to the faa's budget, why do i have a sneaking suspicion nobody had to be furloughed?
I think it could be managed a lot more wisely so that you don't have to fly around with your gear out at 3000' to burn fuel in December so that your fuel allowance for next year isn't cut. The system is broken if the incentives within the government is to waste money or fear losing your budget next year.
Not to mention a budget cut of 5% isn't a cut of 5% but a cut of growth by 5%. if you're growing 10% next year then a 5% budget cut is still a 5% increase yoy. Do that with the big budget and that's considered an inhumane draconian cut.
I think the D.C. problem could be fixed if congress' lucrative pensions were eradicated.
btw, let them fight it out in congress. not all fights are bad ones and this certainly is not a bad fight. as to the faa's budget, why do i have a sneaking suspicion nobody had to be furloughed?
My college buddy is a fed in Seattle. He is furloughed. He and the rest of the furloughed feds have been told to stay away from all federal facilities.
07-28-2011, 08:36 AM
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