In the year 2011, one hundred years after the birth of Ronald Reagan, the American electorate is torn between honoring the "Great Communicator" and finally recognizing the shambles he made of the infrastructure of sentient governance in America. Almost lost in the string of pearls today recounting civil war in Libya, broken nuclear reactors, and the death of Elizabeth Taylor, was this little gem from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood:
It is long past time to begin to answer these questions. Can we continue to believe in the free lunch fantasy in which good things happen even though we are unwilling to pay for them? Go figure! Really, GO!
Cross-posted to The Renaissance Post
"It is not acceptable to have just one controller in the tower [at Reagan National Airport] managing air traffic in this critical air space".This, in response to the unassisted landing of two commercial aircraft at D.C.'s Reagan National Airport. Hello! Is anyone home? Apparently not. Or, maybe they were just sound sleepers. They? Who are we kidding? A solo air traffic controller sleeping through his watch just a few miles from the Pentagon, White House and National Capitol? If you can control the airspace around the nation's capitol with a single person in the tower, why do we need two pilots in the cockpit of a single aircraft? Are we really safer without an Air Traffic Controllers' union? Who would have done away with such a union? And, why? Ideology, demagoguery, or, all of the above? Certainly not reason.
It is long past time to begin to answer these questions. Can we continue to believe in the free lunch fantasy in which good things happen even though we are unwilling to pay for them? Go figure! Really, GO!
Cross-posted to The Renaissance Post
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