Trump had things to say about what he’s going to do about Americas air traffic control system
Oh boy
We're all gonna sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new. Not pieced together, obsolete, like it is, land-based. Trying to hook up a land-based system to a satellite system. The first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can't hook up land to satellites and you can't hook up satellites to land. It doesn't work. We spend billions of billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying cut it loose, and let's spend less money and build a great system done by two or three companies, very good companies, specialists, that's all it is. They used 39 companies. That means that 39 different hookups have to happen. And I don't know how many people of you are good in terms of all of the kinds of things necessary for that. And it's very complex stuff. But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment. And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would've, bells would've gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn't stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would've gone off. They have 'em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would've just never happened if we had the right equipment.
And one of things that's gonna be, l'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, l use a system from another country because my captain tells me, l'm landing in New York and I'm using a sys- I won't tell you what country, but l use a system from another country because the captain says 'This thing is so bad, it's so obsolete! And we can't have that.
tragabigzanda wrote:it's almost as if the Republicans have no idea what the middle class is and how it functions
almost?
I mean... I could make the same criticism about the Dems. Both parties have spent the last decade(!) transacting on populist sentiment for the benefit of the coastal elite.
tragabigzanda wrote:it's almost as if the Republicans have no idea what the middle class is and how it functions
almost?
I mean... I could make the same criticism about the Dems. Both parties have spent the last decade(!) transacting on populist sentiment for the benefit of the coastal elite.
This again
What? If you disagree with that assessment, please state your case.
I've said it before and I'll say it again here, I guess.. the notion that these two parties are the same is nonsense. Please stop doing that.
tragabigzanda wrote:it's almost as if the Republicans have no idea what the middle class is and how it functions
almost?
I mean... I could make the same criticism about the Dems. Both parties have spent the last decade(!) transacting on populist sentiment for the benefit of the coastal elite.
This again
What? If you disagree with that assessment, please state your case.
I've said it before and I'll say it again here, I guess.. the notion that these two parties are the same is nonsense. Please stop doing that.
This will always be trag’s move until he fully embraces his red pilledness.
tragabigzanda wrote:it's almost as if the Republicans have no idea what the middle class is and how it functions
almost?
I mean... I could make the same criticism about the Dems. Both parties have spent the last decade(!) transacting on populist sentiment for the benefit of the coastal elite.
This again
What? If you disagree with that assessment, please state your case.
I've said it before and I'll say it again here, I guess.. the notion that these two parties are the same is nonsense. Please stop doing that.
Of course they're not the same, but IMO they're both entirely guilty of selling hollow middle class market positioning. Just different sales tactics.
Okay, so what would an authentic tactic look like?
tragabigzanda wrote:Again, it's in the execution. Dems have repeatedly told voters they're going to pump money into their households through college debt relief programs and tax deductions. It's not really the same strategy at all, even if the stated end goal looks roughly the same.
"It's not really the same strategy at all" ... as what? What do you mean?
tragabigzanda wrote:I guess it really comes down to time/incentive alignment for me. Who actually benefits once their proposed policies take effect?
The GOP pitches tax cuts as a win for the middle class, but the real payoff goes to the ultra-wealthy. Democrats have at least made attempts — expanding the Child Tax Credit, pushing for student debt relief, and investing in infrastructure — but these efforts typically end up being temporary, or significantly watered down by political compromises. If either party was serious about rebuilding a durable middle class, they’d focus on long-term economic mobility: housing affordability, wage growth, and a labor market that rewards skills and work instead of credentials, rather than a mix of short-term relief and corporate giveaways.
I'm very bummed out by Elon's "move fast, break things" approach to the Federal apparatus; but also think the Dems should've caught on by now that the people want change, not measured compromise (which is kind of antithetical to my whole deal, I know; but is a fair criticism of the Ds).
Literally because of Republicans!
One party is serious about all of that. But they haven't had the majority to implement it. You want that shit? VOTE FOR THEM.
