Take a look at the GOP ‘s vision of Galt’s heaven, air travel division:
PASSENGERS fainted when a 5-foot hole opened in the roof of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Phoenix to Sacramento last week. The most frightening moment may have been when, as one passenger said, “You could look out and see blue sky.”
[But] on [that] very day … the House of Representatives passed a bill likely to make it more difficult to detect and prevent midair ruptures, metal fatigue and other serious flight risks.The bill would cut $4 billion from the Federal Aviation Administration’s $37 billion budget. Representative John L. Mica, a Florida Republican who is the chairman of the House Transportation Committee, says the bill would streamline F.A.A. programs and promised the bill would “not negatively impact aviation safety.
I’m guessing that would be because the dead don’t care and hell, who needs an FAA anyway?
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Or rather, maybe this is all part of the Randian conspiracy to make trains relevant again. Certainly, everything William McGee documents in his op-ed in today’s Times makes me regret every trip I’ve scheduled for the rest of the year:
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