tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398944192135372562.post1344566571084082789..comments2023-10-12T04:00:29.043-05:00Comments on Lola For President: Political Parties - DemocraticAmber Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08487471617945987354noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398944192135372562.post-22758173505644638602008-12-16T21:05:00.000-06:002008-12-16T21:05:00.000-06:00Dear Lola, you beautiful girl:“Quiet Rockland” is ...Dear Lola, you beautiful girl:<BR/><BR/>“Quiet Rockland” is an organization based in Pearl River, New York that has been fighting the “Bobby” Sturgell FAA and Mary Peters USDOT for the past year-and-a-half. Our organization acts consonant with the interests of thousands of citizens in Rockland County, NY and elsewhere: 47,000 in the Town Of Orangetown, NY; 300,000 in Rockland County, NY; and 30,000,000 in the Northeast.<BR/><BR/>1. Quiet Rockland asks that, once sworn-in, you please cause your re-configured USDOT and FAA to immediately withdraw the US$53,500,000+ failed boondoggle of the prior administration known as the “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. It never made sense to put between 200-600 new jumbo-jets per day over densely-populated and minority-laden neighborhoods in Rockland County. We need environmental justice, a restoration of sensibility, and peace. We need cancellation of the Sturgell/Peters Airspace Redesign.<BR/><BR/>2. The American people including Quiet Rockland call for your Administration to please treat and pay all Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) and Aviation Inspectors fairly; protect them from threat and harm; and listen to them. NATCA needs a real contract. The ATCS and Inspectors are the true aviation professionals. Their input is vital to the future of American aviation safety, and they have suffered to a wholly-unacceptable degree during the failed “Bobby” Sturgell FAA regime. <BR/><BR/>3. The American people including Quiet Rockland must have a federal government that restores, to quote Congressman Oberstar, a “Culture Of Safety” in aviation. An FAA “partnership program”, on the other hand, wherein the Agency abdicates its legally-mandated function as regulator and instead adopts a cozy economic pandering relationship unabashedly calling the airlines its only “customers” - is a grotesque, harmful, and abysmal dynamic, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people. The “customers” are, in point of fact, the passengers and the overflown people on the ground. Federal law requires consideration of both, a fact that the failed Sturgell aeromercantile FAA conveniently and consistently forgot.<BR/><BR/>4. The failed “Bobby” Sturgell FAA must immediately be re-populated with responsible federal officials for a change. We need government officials who tell us the truth.<BR/><BR/>5. Finally, we respectfully request that you please select a new FAA Administrator with ties to the Northeast who understands the complexities of this region and its airspace, and one who will carry out the 4-point agenda hereinabove.<BR/><BR/>Besides, we have heard that current FAA managment are "cat people". They sure act like it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398944192135372562.post-75584911963945495602008-12-15T21:04:00.000-06:002008-12-15T21:04:00.000-06:00The simple fact of the matter is, the "free market...The simple fact of the matter is, the "free market" as applied to healthcare is unworkable. It is no more workable than "free market" solutions rto police and fire protection would be; when you need a fireman, you simply do not have the luxury of shopping around for a good fire department, and that luxury does not exist for health emergencies either.<BR/><BR/>This country spends more, and gets far less, than any other country in the Western world. the healthcare cost component of an American made product or service is a de facto VAT that is heavily damaging to our economic position both here at home and in the global marketplace. The system is a failure and must be scrapped.Jolly Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15386411633471396349noreply@blogger.com