AOPA and ATC Privatization

"Chip Jones" wrote in message news:bf37b.9672

Funny Ron, that's the way I feel about the current Republican Administration
and their claim that all of these "little" towers on the block are "rural".
Maybe you could pick out the distorted "half truths" in the NATCA ad and
debunk them here on the forum.

The commercial implies that the entire ATC system is going to be auctioned
off by HR 2115. This is an outright lie. They don't even resort to your
slippery slope argument. As far as anybody who really doesn't know what's
going on, this has nothing to do with 69 towers, it's the end of the world as
we know it when it comes to ATC.

NATCA and any other lobbying group does itself a great disservice by
resorting to hysteria rather than sane persuasion. All that's going to happen
out of this is that a lot of congressional staffers are going to have to explain
the truth to the few people who take NATCA's recommendation of voting
down all of 2115 to let them know what the issue really is.

I'll let people listen to this drivel and decide for themselves:
http://www.natca.org/assets/Multimedia/auction_ad.rm

They lose the good message about the problems with privatization with the
wildass opening statement:

A bill is in Washington that put air safety on the auction block. The bill
would sell off the world's safest air traffic control system to the lowest bidder.

The "SYSTEM" is not 69 control towers.
The contracting oiut process is not "auctioning off to the lowest bidder"

Other than that it's a great commercial.