“Reallocation” and the Messiah
We’ve all heard of the desire of “The One” to reallocate money. Not his money, ours. It’s caused quite a stir if you haven’t been paying attention. But today in The Washington Times, an editorial points out that obambi’s reallocation exercises have gone over a cliff. Now he has transferred $2 million from the program that trained pilots to carry firearms on flights. This has effectively stalled out the program.
Where has he transeferred the money to? Why “…to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots.” What? What are we “field inspecting” pilots for? As the Times points out, the trained Airline Pilots (called Federal Flight Deck Officers)… “are reported to have the best behavior of any federal law enforcement agency. There are no cases where any of them has improperly brandished or used a gun.”
But lets kill a program where the end results are:
- No air flights have been hijacked since it started
- No Federal Flight Deck Officer has ever transgressed any rule of this agency.
- Other than the training, there is no cost to the federal government. The pilots are not paid to carry weapons. They do it free of charge.
- About 70% of major airline carrier pilots have a military background (exactly what federal law enforcement agencies look for)
- Armed marshals only cover about 3% of flights out of Washington DC airports. Sky marshals are costly and quit more often than other law-enforcement officers.
And somehow all this is considered unworthy by The One. So he decides to can it.
I remember the last time dumocrats got this involved with US security. It was when Clinton put up all those walls between the CIA/FBI/NSA. He was afraid of “losing our rights” and got 9/11 instead.
This administration is taking a more proactive approach. Clinton was a dumb redneck but now we have an intelligent idiot.
This failure will be much more “classical”.
