{"id":12608,"date":"2013-04-24T16:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-24T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T16:24:29","slug":"the_obama_regime_deliberately_punishes_airline_passengers_to_score_political_points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/04\/24\/the_obama_regime_deliberately_punishes_airline_passengers_to_score_political_points\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Regime Deliberately Punishes Airline Passengers to Score Political Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: How many of you have encountered airline delays? They\u2019re popping up all over the place out there in greater and greater frequency. And remember that back on April 20th of 2011 — this is two years ago — they passed the Passenger Bill of Rights that would limit the amount of time you could spend on the tarmac. Remember all these people that ended up for four hours or longer on a jet. The excuse was, well, they couldn\u2019t find a gate or we couldn\u2019t get a departure slot or whatever, and the airline wouldn\u2019t let \u2019em off the airplane so we passed the Passenger Bill of Rights, which limited tarmac time. <\/p>\n

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Ray LaHood, the transportation secretary, said airline passengers have a right to be treated fairly. And now the president has furloughed air traffic controllers. And you know what they\u2019re doing? Some of them have been reassigned to run unions. Diana Furchtgott-Roth has a column in the DC Examiner today, about 11 or 12, I forget how many pilots who\u2019ve been furloughed and air traffic controllers, that have been sent over to various relevant unions to do union leadership duty. I\u2019m telling you, this is a purposely caused situation. This is chaos, and passengers are being punished for the sequester. And it\u2019s all being done to blame the Republicans. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no need for any air traffic control delays. There\u2019s no need. There are plenty of ways to accommodate the sequester without this kind of behavior which is impacting the way people live their daily lives. And as an added bonus, as far as Obama and the Democrats are concerned, it\u2019s making it look like government is necessary for everything to run on time. When in fact the lesson to be learned here is that big government, central planning, we\u2019re told at least they could make the trains run on time. That\u2019s what Mussolini did. That\u2019s why they loved him. This bunch can\u2019t even make the planes run on time. They can\u2019t make the trains run on time, except they\u2019re doing it on purpose to frustrate passengers, to create chaos, to punish passengers, if you will.<\/p>\n

You watch, before it\u2019s all over, it\u2019s gonna be the fault of the Republicans for causing the sequester to happen, for not being bipartisan, for not agreeing with Obama to stave this off. So two years ago it was the Passenger Bill of Rights, limits tarmac time. Now it is deliberately punishing passengers to score political points. Sorry, folks. That\u2019s what it is. That\u2019s where we are.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here is Peter in Las Vegas. Welcome, sir. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. From my research on the sequester thing that\u2019s taking money away from the FAA, and that\u2019s supposed to be an increase in the money that was already in the budget. So if the money was already there, and the sequester is just this minimal amount of money, then why are they asking these people to take furloughs, and then, if they did ask \u2019em to take furloughs, why isn\u2019t the military being used to fill in the gaps for air traffic controllers?<\/p>\n