Next Gen Air Traffic Control?

[Don Smith]

So read the link from the WSJ on Next Gen.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090330-716115.html

I also read yesterday that there is NO new funding in the Porkulus Spending Bill for Next Gen. You think some big spender in Washington would have slipped something in there for Next Gen. After all, if we can fund some studies on light rail for Californians to go to Vegas and gamble, can't we fund a little bit for a system that will improve air travel for all the rest of us?

 

[Liberty or Death 86]

So read the link from the WSJ on Next Gen.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090330-716115.html

I also read yesterday that there is NO new funding in the Porkulus Spending Bill for Next Gen. You think some big spender in Washington would have slipped something in there for Next Gen. After all, if we can fund some studies on light rail for Californians to go to Vegas and gamble, can't we fund a little bit for a system that will improve air travel for all the rest of us?

As an ATC I've been in and out of the loop for the last few years waiting for the FAA to actually pick my number for a job. I know what you mean about the ludicrous spending and nothing for what is actually needed. The system could use a major overhaul and we've spent more than the world GDP and have nothing to show for it. In the early 1920's there was a crash of the markets. President Coolidge did nothing and the markets all reset themselves within six months. Why did we just waste all this money. I assume you know how many fighter jets the Air Force and Navy could have purchased with that money( which by the way we don't have. Isn't deficit spending wonderful.) An F-22 Raptor costs $140,000,000 and an F-35 just shy of that. The US gooberment has spent more than $1,000,000,000,000. Get some good stuff or just waste the world's gdp is this actually a question.