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| THREAD: | Obama | |
| SUBJECT: | Obama/Natca?/321728514 | |
| TO: | matty13 | |
| FROM: | ATC@ZDC | |
| POSTED: | 2/12/2008, 12:02AM EDT | |
No one's been accountable because the GOP controlled each branch of government and they held loyalty to the party above loyalty to the country. You notice that the acting FAA administrator did not get confirmed... he is being held accountable.
ATC@ZDC wrote: [TO: matty13]
Accountable to a degree. Many of the lies and half-truths have yet to be discovered. But with entities like the IG, GAO, the NTSB and now Senators starting to dig deeper ... i expect the degree of accountability to increase. Just look at NextGen ... the FAA said it would cost $22 billion ... " But an independent industry analysis completed last year forecast that NextGen's software development alone could cost more than $50 billion, Transportation Department Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel III said Thursday during a House hearing on the FAA's proposed budget for 2009.” (gettheflick.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-bush-clinton.html)
$50 billion just for the software 
Hold on to your heads FAA because some are gonna roll 
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