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Branson Talk / Re: Big day for Branson and surrounding area
« on: March 12, 2013, 01:22:14 PM »And then there is a dark cloud hovering over the Branson airport now, with all the cutbacks they are getting ready to do @ a federal level...( Because on our c-i-c),
there is a threat of closing the air traffic control tower on smaller airports nationwide, If i remember right there are 5 or 6 being threatened in missouri alone.
that would be just great, get southwest in, and then lose the control tower..
i dont know what the cost would be to private fund something like that. OR even how that would work..
Considering that Branson is supposed to be a private, for profit airport maybe the owners should pay for the ATCs.
I can not for the life of me understand how a government agency can not operate on at least the current level with an actual 2% increase in budget over the year before. This is government. They have not shared in the pain the rest of us have endured. I've had 4 day workweeks for a year, had 401 matching reduced and so on. Yet, the Federals keep having their cake and eating it too. They can't find cost savings and efficiencies in other areas to keep essential services going? PO Leez! They cut off access to the people's house yet keep three calligraphers on staff for 300,000 a year? Come on.