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Here is another possibility. Maybe the FAA filled so many key management
positions in safety areas with incompetent minorities and women that privatization is the only way to clean it up? 8 years of Clinton filled the Government at all directions with women, minorities and homosexuals many of whom are incompetent or unqualified. Now they are entrenched pushing social agendas rather than air safety. Maybe that is the real reason for private takeover??? I understand the real reason for the NASA problems is retirement of "white male" experts only to be taken over by unqualified minorities. It is not politically correct to exam the possibility but it's looking like NASA, the FAA and other high technology Government organizations are suffering because of social agendas and politically correct hiring practices. Private companies with money and profit in mind are not so bound by PC and social engineering. Kevin Wetzel - ISP Toolz wrote: "David H" wrote in message ... Will Alaska (and other states with votes that the administration thinks they can woo) also get an exemption from the recent legislation that specifies that seafood inspectors are "inherantly governmental" and thus can't be privatized? The Bush administration sure does seem to have a major bug up its ass about forcing ATC privatization - WHY? At the same time they're declaring things like seafood inspectors are inherantly governmental (not to mention those federal employees who screen baggage for nail clippers). There's something here that doesn't quite add up. They seem really, really intent on pushing ATC privatization. What's really behind this? Who stands to gain from ATC privatization? Are there major businesses that do this now, and others that are quietly preparing to pick up some fat federal ATC contracts? Do these companies have any connection to the white house and friends? "Follow the money...." COMMENTS: I completely agree that there is an alternative driving force behind this. Once of the funny things that I see is that if the white house were to privatize the ATC functions it would have just another person to blame outside the government for its failure to fix security related issues, the increase in traffic as seen at airports (delays, longer holding patterns, etc). If they really wanted to fix this issue they should probably start by giving airports more grants and funding to accomplish advances in ATC instead of trying to privatize it and then point the finger later at the contractors failures. The federal government has pretty much failed in regard to making these systems better for pilots. Instead of changing the people they should change the bogus TFR's that pop up out of nowhere and serve no real purpose. Im tired for one of a government that restricts the population for its own personal uses and gains (or the gains of those elected). If each one of the elected officials in Washington were affected by TFR's, privatization of ATC and other issues you can bet that the rules of engagement would have changed and for one the ADIZ in Washington DC (which serves no purpose to prevent terrorism at all) would have been removed by now. As I see it at 400MPH they could'nt stop a jetliner in time anyway with the size of the ADIZ. Anyway im not gonna ramble on. I think the entire system needs to be looked at and changed. Kevin Wetzel ISP Toolz http://www.isptoolz.com/ |
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JJ wrote in message ...
Here is another possibility. Maybe the FAA filled so many key management positions in safety areas with incompetent minorities and women that privatization is the only way to clean it up? 8 years of Clinton filled the Government at all directions with women, minorities and homosexuals many of whom are incompetent or unqualified. Now they are entrenched pushing social agendas rather than air safety. Maybe that is the real reason for private takeover??? Nice try, Troll. Back to alt.atlanta or ny.politics now. Sydney |
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"Snowbird" wrote in message om... JJ wrote in message ... Here is another possibility. Maybe the FAA filled so many key management positions in safety areas with incompetent minorities and women that privatization is the only way to clean it up? 8 years of Clinton filled the Government at all directions with women, minorities and homosexuals many of whom are incompetent or unqualified. Now they are entrenched pushing social agendas rather than air safety. Maybe that is the real reason for private takeover??? Nice try, Troll. Back to alt.atlanta or ny.politics now. Sydney You know, it would go a lot further if you would just refute him rather than engage in name-calling because you feel uncomfortable with something non-PC he said. |
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"Tom S." wrote in
: You know, it would go a lot further if you would just refute him rather than engage in name-calling because you feel uncomfortable with something non-PC he said. Why bother to try to refute obvious lies? Another one hits the bozo bin. -- Regards, Stan |
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"Stan Gosnell" wrote in message ... Why bother to try to refute obvious lies? Another one hits the bozo bin. If they're obvious lies then why even bother to respond? |
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You know, it would go a lot further if you would just refute him
rather than engage in name-calling because you feel uncomfortable with something non-PC he said. Why bother to try to refute obvious lies? Another one hits the bozo bin. Obvious, bigoted lies! Cheers Blippie -- Visit the alt.aviation.safety FAQ online at www.blippie.org.uk |
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Matthew S. Whiting wrote:
And the profit motive. The latter can exist without competition. The edge is certainly much sharper with competition as now it is that much harder to make a profit, but making an even larger profit is still pretty strong motivation. I question this reasoning only because regulated markets haven't been shown as all that efficient, and it's tough to imagine that private ATC would be unregulated. In theory, the "right" regulation would promote efficiency. But what's "right" might not even be known. More, were it known, it still might be politically "expensive", and therefore forgotten. However, we should all be aware that there is one bit of "low hanging fruit" for a private ATC venture from an efficiency perspective: kill smaller GA. If the "benefit" factor in the efficiency ratio is anything like "people-miles moved", getting smaller GA out of the ATC system would improve the benefit/cost ratio. - Andrew |
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Tarver Engineering wrote:
Automation increases productivity thereby reducing labor. This is far from guaranteed, and there are many factors involved that are relevant to this discussion. Most notable is the idea of putting an airspace out to contract every few years. Given the speed at which technological gear improves and cheapens, any newcomer has an advantage in such a competition if the incumbent is still depreciating the investment originally made. Aware of this, any incumbent must depreciate any new automation over only the contract period. This increases the annual cost of the automation, possibly to the point where simply not investing in the automation becomes the proper choice. So, in fact, "more" competition in a regulated environment can work against long term efficiency. This is just one of those oddities of regulated markets. It is apparently an entire economic subdiscipline. - Andrew |
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Tom S. wrote:
Payroll is where the money is. And headcount is what gives unions and executives POWER. This is very important. I actually spent some time working for AT&T post-breakup. We were putting into place automation, as it happens, within various divisions of the company. Managers often resisted this for the "headcount" reason. In fact, one came out and stated quite clearly, in one meeting, that he'd do everything he could to cause our project to fail if it threatened to reduce his staffing levels in any way. On the other hand, on my exit interview I was told a story by the area whatchamacallit. He told me of a time when he built a phone (this was actually while at some company that AT&T later bought). He chose to use internal components, priced in dollars, rather than TI components, priced in pennies. That was because it was his job to promote "the company". Of course, his phone was never released as it couldn't compete. Weird place, with a lot of strange ideas of what is good or bad. - Andrew |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message online.com... Tarver Engineering wrote: Automation increases productivity thereby reducing labor. This is far from guaranteed, and there are many factors involved that are relevant to this discussion. In this spectific case however, Andrew's "factors" are specious. It is that flight cancelled that costs the most; especially with the operator having real time weather, but no way to engage ATC in real time alteration of a flight track. (CONUS) |
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