{"id":190206,"date":"2009-12-21T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/21\/elections-have-consequences-aerial-cattle-car-edition\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:25:00","slug":"elections-have-consequences-aerial-cattle-car-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/21\/elections-have-consequences-aerial-cattle-car-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections Have Consequences: Aerial Cattle Car Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Transportation Department has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/34511488\">forbidden airlines from keeping passengers on a plane for more than 3 hours while it waits on the tarmac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a long overdue change.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I realize that there appears to be some dissonance from my prior post, lambasting Obama and His Stupid Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> on cutting another taxpayer funded giveaway to AIG fat cats.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, Obama is not every special interest&#8217;s bitch, just the FIRE (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">F<\/span>inance, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I<\/span>nsurance, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">R<\/span>eal <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">E<\/span>state) sector.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines are not part of FIRE, so they don&#8217;t get a pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transportation Department has now forbidden airlines from keeping passengers on a plane for more than 3 hours while it waits on the tarmac. This is a long overdue change. And yes, I realize that there appears to be some dissonance from my prior post, lambasting Obama and His Stupid Minions\u2122 on cutting another taxpayer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1009,985,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-government","category-regulation","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}