The Air Traffic Controller Layoffs End, But Only After Flight Delays Occur and Inflamed Passengers Vent Their Ire

In a well-run, sensible nation with a proactive, effective, and responsive government, problems that will affect the populace are anticipated and resolved before hardship occurs.  That, of course, is not what transpires in the United States, the land of stopgap, dysfunctional “leadership”.

 

Although I applaud the end of senseless and infuriating air traffic delays which were spawned by the madness known as the “sequester”, the crisis should not have been permitted to occur and could have been easily averted.

 

For months, the federal government had been warning of flight delays if and when effects of the sequester were to occur, and for months, fliers and air traffic controllers have needlessly endured anxiety as Congress and President Obama dithered and shrugged their shoulders, failing to head it off.

 

The week of April 22, the boom fell and flight delays began commensurate with the partial layoffs of controllers.  Only now, after the aggrieved have let elected officials have a piece of their minds, has action been taken to allow the FAA to shift funds to restore full air traffic control strength.

 

Congress does not much care about its abysmal approval rating because we continue to elect the same cast of characters that have brought us government by crisis, one which is for sale to the highest-bidding special interest.

 

We are met with the incompetence we deserve when we ensconce in the corridors of power those that do not know the meaning of the phrase, “public service”.