Another "Free Ride"
- A measure to help Chicago school children get a free ride to and from school if they live in special Safe Passage routes through high crime areas is gaining steam at the Capitol. Sponsoring Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, said the legislation would set up a system to provide parents with a reimbursement to pay someone to drive the children.
Reimbursements could go to a driver, such as a parent or neighbor, willing to take neighborhood children to schools, Lightford said.
Great. Free breakfast, free lunch, toss in the free rent, free utilities, free phones, free money. Why not free rides to school, even though the article admits there hasn't been a single incident on an actual Safe Passage route? The only thing the media can even remotely connect to Safe Passage is an Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault that happened blocks away in the early morning hours before Safe Passage was even in effect. But why should that stop a broke state government from giving away more nonexistent money?
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Will the parents have to make sure the designated driver for their child has insurance? What happens if there is an accident? What happens if the driver is late, doesn't drive that day, etc? Will the state stand behind this? Doubt it.
Free education, Free medical care, Free furnaces, Free cash assistance, Free food stamps. Damn, why are we working?
No. No way in hell. Just no.
And more freebied always to the same ones.
More waste of tax dollars. The Nanny State at it's very worst.
Great idea... If they don't mind all the suspended licenses!
I'm a responsible parent who takes my son to school, will I money too? WTF is wrong with liberals?
Well, I guess they could reimburse them by giving them a deduction on their income taxes . . . oh, wait, they don't pay any fucking income taxes! Only us working stiffs do!
As long as there are taxpayers with a few bucks left in their pockets, a government is never broke and never not able to find a few extra million $$$.
You forgot the free school supplies the free dental buses and the free healthcare. Except NONE of it is free. WE are paying for all of it. That is why Illinois is broke. That is part of the reason why Illinois can't keep it's promise to pay the pensions we have earned. It is the reason why democrats are elected over and over in Chicago.
Ever wonder why there is such a big push now to raise minimum wage to $10.10 /hr? Because politicians are realizing just how fucked the economy is because it is better to collect unemployment than work for minimum wage. Oh well, gotta go. Need to get ready to work my second job so I can pay for my kids Catholic school tuition and and school supplies come fall.
Watch it now! Those are future voters you are talking about. It's never too late to cultivate voters...
Do not forget about the homocide that occurred a while back on 29th and state. The dead guy was shot right underneath the safe passage sign. I was driving by when I saw the crime scene. The dead was directly under the pole that had the safe passage sign affixed to it.
Free ride=free vote. Simple.
Nothing is free remember that. Im sure someone is benifiting from this program of this sort and that's why certain people push it more to pass.
"...there hasn't been a single incident on an actual Safe Passage route..."
Seems to me I've heard of dozens. Anyone? Dead people slumped on the sidewalk, clutching at the light pole with the pod camera on it, blue light flashing...
Next will be a government subsidy every time some "home health care assistant" is sent in to change a diaper.
Who were the two animals who "put a mixture of water, cereal, and baby food into a bottle" and were done for the day, until one child starved to death and the other was on the edge by the time the "social workers" arrived?
Throw more money. Fix that s__t.
At least fifty years of this now...
Sun coming up now and they're still shooting...
Has anybody asked the Rauner campaign where he stands on this?
Is this a waste of "the hard working taxpayers" money?
Or is he onboard with this as part of his program to court the 'hood and revruns?
How will this be monetized and modified? Will Rahm's jitney cab friends get the contracts? The Rev. Meeks perhaps? Rev. Brooks?
Who gets the loot, Bruce?
The best one are the people that get paid by the government to be the caretaker of their husband/wife. Isn't that what you signed upfield when you married them? Now you will only do it if the govt pays you. (Of course while getting your rent paid, link card, AND Obama phone) and I go to work why?
Anything will be given to them to keep them voting democrat. The democrats would never win another election without them.
Do they do background checks? "Safe Passage" employees stream through the Cook County courts every day. So do the Obamacare navigators.
It's like common sense doesn't exist in this County.
Will that apply to Uber or Cab rides?
Reimbursements could go to a driver, such as a parent or neighbor, willing to take neighborhood children to schools, Lightford said.
Wow, I thought that WAS the parents job.
But why stop there. Let's have a program where the catered-to-constituents can lie on the couch, and we can hire some one to feed them grapes?
Fucking bullshit idea from a State that is beyond broke.
Just more compelling proof that liberals are born without a math gene.
So you mean I can have my 17 year old son drive my 7 year old daughter to school and get paid for it.
Well thought out plan
Keep this in mind when it comes time to vote. Someone voted these moron in office
Remember to vote for the Dummycrats
It's stupid programs like these that the state is broke. Common sense economics tells you cant keeping giving away free stuff and not have a budget problem.
People are leaving Illinois not because of high taxes, but because the taxpayer money is being wasted on bogus free rides to school program. Were sick of it!! It needs to stop !! Stop giving more free things to people who pay no taxes !!
My mom drove me to school and did she get some kind of reimbursement ? Nope.
Actually, if the City of Chicago and Cps want to get ahead,I have a simple solution.With all this money flying around and thrown away,why cant the public schools charge a start up fee for each student for each year,say 150.oo dollars per child.CASH.Is that so much to ask for a education?Could the parents save 150 per year instead of booze,lottery,cigarettes ets'wtf.
How about they all move to the liberal suburbs to give suburbanites a taste of urban life.
I heard this on the radio yesterday morning, and it was really the last straw for me. I'm so tired of paying for these people--I had to get my own kids to school on my own time and my own dime. No busing, no paid walkers, certainly no free driving provided. And then I had to get my own ass to work, and hurry back home afterward to take care of my kids--no free day care provided. We're going the way of Rome, and you know how that ended. All takers, few workers. And they can't figure out why we're disgruntled?
This is bullshit. Why should Illinois Taxpayers be on the hook for a CHICAGO problem?
How is it now the financial responsibility of some farmer hundreds of miles away from the crime infested cesspool by the lake? How is it that they'd now have 'pay' -- out of their taxes -- some dope fiend 'mother' to drive her little gangbanger safely to school in Chiraq? To pay these layabout dregs, while tens of thousands of mothers -- and FATHERS in Illinois -- do it now and have been doing it for decades, for free, doing it just because: It Is Their RESPONSIBILITY, and they know it! What's the justification?...and the, 'It's For The Children' canard DOES NOT fly.
Where does this fucking nonsense END!!
Let's not forget the free babysitter money if daddy not on birth certificate.
This is up there with IDPA paying people to babysit their own kids.
How will this be enforced? How do we know people will actually use the money to pay for the kid to be driven to school?
Go by any school at start and end time--it's a gridlock.
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty". Cloward and Piven were a married couple who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in liberal[1] magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".[2]
The two stated that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would strain local budgets, precipitating a crisis at the state and local levels that would be a wake-up call for the federal government, particularly the Democratic Party. There would also be side consequences of this strategy, according to Cloward and Piven. These would include: easing the plight of the poor in the short-term (through their participation in the welfare system); shoring up support for the national Democratic Party then-splintered by pluralistic interests (through its cultivation of poor and minority constituencies by implementing a national "solution" to poverty); and relieving local governments of the financially and politically onerous burdens of public welfare (through a national "solution" to poverty)
When will all these free hand outs stop? Seriously
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How about we give some free advice. Stop having children that you can't and don't want to properly care for!
Education in the U.S.A., along with all its ever-expanding sub-industries and services, is now officially a racket. More and more money is forced out of taxpayers to pay for it, yet American kids get stupider, lazier, fatter and less competitive with kids in other countries.
The government can always squeeze the middle class when "it's for the children."
I think kids from poor neighboroods should just be allowed to live at the firehouse closest to their homes and schools, Monday thru Friday, and the firemen should feed them, bathe them, and walk them to and from school, as they usually just lay around sleeping or lounging around idle anyways. This will give the parents more time to hang out at the Mall, Bar, Parks, and friends places, and their kids would be well cared for, and the kids would b home for the weekend and could be then dropped off at a Chicago Public Library Location and watched and taken care of by the staff, who really dont do much of anything anyways. If all else fails, kids should be allowed to b dropped off at their local Aldermans Office and baby-sat ad the Aldermen are so highly concerned for the childrens safety and welfare anyways, and then the kids could actually teach the Aldermen how to color within tbe lines, and make peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. The parents of Chicago Public School Children deserve and are Entitled to this....
That extra money would go straight to buying more dope, booze, and rims!
Why not give em free SSI, WIC cards, LINK cards and pay em to line the routes that THEIR kids use to go to school.... er never mind I forgot they already get all of that.
Just remember our pensions need "reform" cause we are the financial drain and the problem..
Picture this crime scene.......a dead gang banger impaled on a safe passage sign at 0800 on the last day of school. Irony, and a hell of a way to kick off the summer.
95th street and the RED LINE is up for grabs MOBS of STUDENTS gone WILD!
Anonymous said...
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty". Cloward and Piven were a married couple who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in liberal[1] magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".[2]
The two stated that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would strain local budgets, precipitating a crisis at the state and local levels that would be a wake-up call for the federal government, particularly the Democratic Party. There would also be side consequences of this strategy, according to Cloward and Piven. These would include: easing the plight of the poor in the short-term (through their participation in the welfare system); shoring up support for the national Democratic Party then-splintered by pluralistic interests (through its cultivation of poor and minority constituencies by implementing a national "solution" to poverty); and relieving local governments of the financially and politically onerous burdens of public welfare (through a national "solution" to poverty)
5/25/2014 10:38:00 AM
This poster understands what the democrats are up to. I just hope we can educate the taxpayers before it is too late.
I think about the farmer who wakes up at 5 a.m. each morning 7 days a week only to feed the nation. The poor farmer can’t take a day off only to be taxed excessively to feed the non productive class. Think about it, the underserved communities have lots of overweight never worked a day in their life people. Calcutta India has poverty and you can count the ribs of its inhabitants. The working class has the greatest portion of their hard earned wages to be legislated away or legally turned over to the state for distribution according to their wishes. No forensic audits for waste only a call for more legislated confiscation of middle class wages further turning the screws on them. Yo, its time for flaming hots and a wash down of grape pop.
The State of Illinois already pays for family members to babysit children. We also pay for family members to be a personal assistant for those who need assistance for medical reasons. Two programs which are being fleeced by scamming welfare cheats. Everybody and their momma knows how to scam public assistance programs. The welfare cheats know how to collect social security disability and get paid from other programs at the same time. We are suckers.
If you are getting compensated for transporting children, wouldn't you need a chauffeur's license? I smell great lawsuits if this ever happens.
Retired
This isn't starting them any earlier than usual. They were probably born via free health care, and brought up on WIC. This is just a little something extra - you know, because the "privileged classes" don't give them enough already! *SNORT*
Jesus Christ! Back in the day, we had these nifty things in our neighborhood called CARPOOLS. My folks would drive for a week, then another kid's folks would, and so on... Shit, NOBODY expected to be paid. They DID expect the proper respect for elders, you were expected to have your shit together, ready to go, and be out at the end of your driveway on time.
I suppose the ghetto constituency has difficulties with these basics -- respect for others, be on time, get your shit together -- and therein lies the impetus for paying lazy-ass breeders to do what any normal parent would do as a matter of course.
Cloward and piven were both career Educational System Morons who could not exist in the real working world due to their stupidity and laziness. Their theory is severly flawed and has failed in every country it has been tried in. In a nutshell, Societies are like Ant-Hills. If you stop the Ants from working, to re-build and re-supply the Ant-Hill and Ant colony, by allowing them not to work, the Ant-Hill will soon collapse, then all the freebies given to the Ants that allowed them to become lazy and not work to support their Society [the Ant-Hill & Ant Colony] end, and ultimate breakdown and chaos ensue.
Cuthbert J. Twillie said...
This is bullshit. Why should Illinois Taxpayers be on the hook for a CHICAGO problem?
How is it now the financial responsibility of some farmer hundreds of miles away from the crime infested cesspool by the lake? How is it that they'd now have 'pay' -- out of their taxes -- some dope fiend 'mother' to drive her little gangbanger safely to school in Chiraq? To pay these layabout dregs, while tens of thousands of mothers -- and FATHERS in Illinois -- do it now and have been doing it for decades, for free, doing it just because: It Is Their RESPONSIBILITY, and they know it! What's the justification?...and the, 'It's For The Children' canard DOES NOT fly.
Where does this fucking nonsense END!!
5/25/2014 09:36:00 AM
* Because Illinois Taxpayers nominate RINOS for Republican Governor Election Candidates instead of Fiscal Conservatives who would be able to fix the State's financial without always having to screw those Taxpayers outside the Chicagoland Area. Chicago Politicians use out of control spending habits, and attempt to make up for their lack of fiscal responsibility, due to Taxpayer paid for Handouts to help assure their re-Elections, by forcing the rest of the State to Anty-Up, and until this practice is stopped by Illinois Voters, downstate Illinois Taxpayers will continue to be raped. Succession by suburbs, from Crook County, would be a good start and send a strong message to the Chicago Democrat [communist] Politicians, that their Jig is Up, because if you give them any money, they will steal it, and use it to buy power and control, and you will get nothing from them in return, Ever.
These cash give away programs known as grants by the State of Illinois are infamous for just handing out money to democratic political class. Don't forget Donne Trotter got a lot of money in a grant to build an elevator in his private club. Nothing embarrasses these liberals, nothing.
Where is MINE???
Seriously - WHERE IS MINE?
All these people getting "free" everything.
How about setting up some work buses that bring these people out to the suburbs where everyone is paying taxes for both their family and their "adopted" ghetto family.
Have them start stopping by to cut the grass and trim the trees every week. Maybe others can learn how to work in other areas where labor is needed.
Don't like that approach?
OK - make it a check box on your Income Tax Return on whether or not to fund each one of these "Freebie" programs.
Voluntary funding - you want to fund "free phones"? Check a box. Want to fund "free lunches"? Check a box. Want to fund "free food stamps"? Check a box.
Don't feel like it - the funding ends.
Taxpayers are maxed out. The private sector jobs are shrinking and the enormous budgets for ALL government programs have to be cut back.
Put the state into bankruptcy and end the lunacy.
Hard working people that work 30 to 40 years do not deserve pensions , social security or reasonably priced health insurance according to democrats in illinois .
Sperm donors and sperm collectors that produce kids deserve free everything , do not or won't feed children before school , pack a lunch for kids , now need payment to walk or drive kids to school .
One child with a welfare family , every other kid put up for adoption or placed in a group home .children would be better off . Baby mamma and baby daddie just make kiddies for extra spending money .
So, is this goes through, does that mean no more paying the neighborhood deadbeats to stand around and talk on the phone while kids walk by? Does it mean that every fucking beat car won't be tied up in the morning and at dismissal while the local crooks clean up in burflaries and other type of assorted mayhem?
Nah, probably not.
The next thing is that we will have to buy them a car and pay for gas so they can get the little darlings to school! Every woman who delivers while on all the "freebies" ought to be sterilized if she already has kids at home being fed, clothed, freemedical care, educated, etc by the working class of the state!!!
We are truly in a cradle to grave society.
I'm a responsible parent who takes my son to school, will I money too? WTF is wrong with liberals?
5/25/2014 12:40:00 AM
No, you won't. See you, like most others on this post don't understand that they aren't considering giving parents money to drive their kids to school. They are considering giving people the option to reimburse people if they volunteer to drive kids to school. Simple freakin' understandable idea. May or may not be a good idea, but it isn't as confusing as everyone is confused about.
You forgot to mention free babysitting money that the gang bangers were getting from their baby mommas courtesy of state of IL
Really, it is time for a Tax-Revolt by the Middle Class Taxpayers of the Nation. Just claim maximum deductions, and at payment time just pay half or less, and "owe" the Government the rest. Why not ? Other people and Countries owe the Government for loans, year adter year, and never pay up, so why should the Middle Class Taxpayer always pay thru the nose and never get ANYTHING in return? Revolt... A long overdue Idea.
Some Day,The Free Stuff Will Run Out.The Link Card Won't Link. The Section Eight,Won't Section Any More. The Rich Folks, Will Still Be Rich, If Not Richer, Than They Ever Were. The Obama's Will Not Be Your Mama Any More. The Middle Class Will Be All Gone. There Will Be No More People To Fleece. The Rich Folks, are Way Too Smart To Have Given Up Their Money. The Middle Class Had No Choice. Now What ?
I was never driven to school. My family did not own a car.
The only country in the world where the poor and uneducated are fat, drive cars, and have cell phones.
Wow, if safe passage routes are safe, why the need for free rides?
If you ordered Santiago not to be touched, and your orders are always followed, why the need for a transfer off the base?
Sorry, first comparison I thought of and I've seen that movie at least a dozen times.
"Who gets the loot, Bruce?"
5/25/2014 06:44:00 AM
Why...Bruce, of course.
Busy inventing himself on TV the other day. "I don't like being called a bilionaire. Not accurate. Why, my many investments, they can rise and fall hundreds of millions of dollars in the space of a day."
No s__t. He actually said that.
I see an old lady counting pennies to see if she could make it for a half-pint of ice cream, her extravagant big treat for the month.
"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
-- Matt Taibbi
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
A. MUST READING.
B. I am still ashamed of myself that I just glanced -- like thirty years ago. Next time I see this, the old lady gets anything she likes, on me.
C. FUCK YOU, BRUCE RAUNER. "Bird hunter." "Harley rider." Wears Carhartt stuff downstate while kickin up shit and trying to impress the locals that he knows between corn and beans. FUCK YOU.
D. Sorry for the language, but not sorry that it's heartfelt. God damn you money-devils and the suffering you cause; your afterlives will hopefully be spent tending a battery of coke ovens in Hell.
Anon (5/25/2014 12:24:00 AM):"why are we working?"
And there lies the question. The higher the taxes get and the better the welfare gets the more people that won't work.
Being 'poor' but having all one's needs taken care of ain't that bad for the trade off of much more time.
But the only way to end it is to stop paying taxes. But to do so legally means to stop making money otherwise law enforcement shows up to collect eventually.
The deomcrats are fighting hard to hold on in this state.
Mid-term election coming up.
Everybody loves free government money, regardless of where it comes from.
rb
A free ride to kids whose parent does not work and can walk them daily... Anything for that almighty vote. Next police and fire will be picking them up so they can go get they fowdy and flamin hots on. You democratic POS politicians make me sick.
After I retired I moved out of Cook County. I thought for the most part I was done giving away my money to people that refused to better themselves. Now the State wants to use more of my tax money to pay life long free loaders to do exactly what my wife and I did every day for the years my three daughters were in grammar school, walk with them.
Free everything and now this. It will never end.
To 1:53 pm very good point will the state get sued if one of these parents, assuming they can find one with valid license and insurance gets on a accident.
I hate Chitroit! Located in the state of Illraq!
I'm a responsible parent who takes my son to school, will I money too? WTF is wrong with liberals?
5/25/2014 12:40:00 AM
No, you won't. See you, like most others on this post don't understand that they aren't considering giving parents money to drive their kids to school. They are considering giving people the option to reimburse people if they volunteer to drive kids to school. Simple freakin' understandable idea. May or may not be a good idea, but it isn't as confusing as everyone is confused about.
5/25/2014 08:53:00 PM
I'm not confused at all. It's still ridiculous.
Have a kid, the financial responsibilities associated with having that kid are ON YOU. Just because you won't drag your ass out to get your own kid to school, doesn't mean that I have to pay for someone to do it FOR you.
Stick the kid in a cab with a sex-offender driver. What will they think of next?
To 11:44am----Why not just drop them off at Rahm's house and forget all those other "solutions."
My grandfather, a retired barber used to drive me and my two brothers plus a couple of our neighbor kids to school everyday in his '55 Chevy BelAir.
That car may still be running somewhere and I wish I knew where it was.
Maybe in 6th or 7th grade around 1961 or so an old Sister of Providence fronted me off to the rest of the class because I got driven to school. I felt bad about that and after class I went to her desk. I told her it wasn't just me and my brothers but also the neighbor kids and that car was always full and we lived eleven blocks away almost a mile and a half. I asked to please not put down what was a great act of charity which was the topic of her religion class that day.
She wasn't the first or person who told me I should be a lawyer but I became a cop instead like my father.
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Archie and Edith Bunker were discussing what gift to get parents with a kid starting school.
Edith, “How about getting them an encyclopedia?”
Archie, “Nah, let him walk to school like I did.”
Later when he was telling the tale of walking to school rain, sleet and snow for the umpteenth time his daughter asks, “Dad, wasn’t there any good weather when you were a kid?”
Here's a better idea...
BOARDING SCHOOLS
Take the kid(s) away from irresponsible parent(s) and put them in a 24/7/365 school.
Nice surroundings that they will learn to maintain.
They will learn all the subjects and do their homework away from gangs and other bad influences.
They will eat healthy, and cook healthy, they will learn to have jobs and develop all kinds of skills.
They will learn respect for people and their country and that they must contribute not just take from society.
After so many years of education they would be returned and be in charge of their parent(s).
Of course this is a dream, such children might even learn to vote independently and Republican.
But the libtards and Democommunists are doing just that only they are teaching our kids to be like them.
why not just identify the gangbanger shooters and put a bounty on them?
No, you won't. See you, like most others on this post don't understand that they aren't considering giving parents money to drive their kids to school. They are considering giving people the option to reimburse people if they volunteer to drive kids to school. Simple freakin' understandable idea. May or may not be a good idea, but it isn't as confusing as everyone is confused about.
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I'm not confused about a fucking thing.
WTF are YOU talking about? So the parents, who should be doing it, are going to be able to pay a neighbor or some second party to drive their kids to school? I don't give a rats ass who is getting the money, the money itself is coming from the government, which comes out of our pockets.
This is a continuation of a mindset that says don't worry, the taxpayers will take care of you and your children from cradle to grave. Your little Johnny will be born in a hospital on the government dime and for his entire life we will pay for everything. It's no wonder that thousands of people make no attempt to lift themselves up. I'd like to hear Bill Cosby's take on this one.
So, giving a free ride to school to a student who, more than likely will drop out by the time he / she is 15 is a good investment of tax money? Why not chip in a few extra bucks, leave the driver at school with the kid to make sure he / she doesn't cut classes, vandalize the bathrooms or roam the streets causing trouble after school is out? In other words, hire a private WARDEN for the kiddies. They may as well get used to one.
"I'm not confused about a fucking thing.
WTF are YOU talking about? So the parents, who should be doing it, are going to be able to pay a neighbor or some second party to drive their kids to school? I don't give a rats ass who is getting the money, the money itself is coming from the government, which comes out of our pockets.
This is a continuation of a mindset that says don't worry, the taxpayers will take care of you and your children from cradle to grave. Your little Johnny will be born in a hospital on the government dime and for his entire life we will pay for everything. It's no wonder that thousands of people make no attempt to lift themselves up. I'd like to hear Bill Cosby's take on this one.
5/26/2014 08:46:00 PM"
Thank you, and well said. What was originally intended to be a temporary hand-up, has morphed grotesquely into a cradle to grave lifestyle. There is little, if any, personal motivation to leave it behind because there is little-to-no personal responsibility!
Insiders at the FAA are privately saying that the White House intends to replace White Air traffic controllers with minorities as much as possible before he leaves office.
FAA’s shift in hiring raises concerns
Air traffic controllers are now picked solely from the public, not college programs that the agency fostered
By Jon Hilkevitch, Tribune reporter
May 27, 2014
Why not just use a school bus to pick them up at designated stops?
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