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Ol Janx Spirit

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7. Why not take the portion of the fees that the airlines and all air travelers pay that normally...
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 11:21 AM
Nov 19

...funds their salaries in the first place and put that into a fund that pays them so that there is never a question of whether the American flying public will be protected regardless of how long a shutdown goes?

As usual, congress makes everything more complicated and subject to political winds and manipulation than it has to be.

Unless, of course, the end goal is to inflict pain on the American people in order to end the shutdown. But when it goes beyond cancelled flights and eventually ends up with a collision of two jumbo jets full of passengers we will all be left to wonder if THAT was the kind of pain the American people deserved for electing fools.

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