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greymattermom

(5,751 posts)
1. Air traffic will stop
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:34 PM
Jan 2019

and the whole country will fail. They can't hire or train new people with no funds to pay them. Putin will win.

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
2. part and parcel of the plan for America
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:39 PM
Jan 2019

And they told us ahead of time what the plan is.

Shutter government. Sow chaos. Crash the economy. Empty out agencies of workers. Rule by fiat, shutting out the elected representatives of the people. Find capos to carry out orders. Elevate quislings.

We know (or should know) how this goes.

MineralMan

(146,190 posts)
4. It won't even take that long.
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:44 PM
Jan 2019

Be prepared for air travel to be seriously disrupted within another week or so. TSA personnel and ATC personnel will run out of money just to get to work and park at the airport soon. They don't have free parking lots or free gasoline. Even public transit costs money.

For TSA folks, who earn between $!8 and $25 per hour, it's a paycheck to paycheck life. ATC workers are not paid all that much more. When the money runs out so you can't get to work, you'll be absent.

It's a simple equation.

OrlandoDem2

(2,064 posts)
5. I know someone with TSA at Miami International. Some security screeners already don't come to work.
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:55 PM
Jan 2019

Only those who work for something to do or have income from other retirements are showing up.

SharonAnn

(13,766 posts)
6. If it cost me to work (Child Care, Gas, Transportataion, Parking, etc)
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 03:34 PM
Jan 2019

Then I'm actually paying them so i can work.

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