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Thursday, January 30, 2025

At a press conference following a deadly collision between a jetliner and a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport, Donald Trump blamed the accident on diversity hiring practices imposed by the Obama and Biden administrations. He claimed these policies weakened the FAA by allowing individuals with disabilities"such as hearing and vision impairments, paralysis, epilepsy, and psychiatric disabilities"to qualify as air traffic controllers. read more


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AWWWWWW YES, THE BEARS ARE REPEATING:

Why ignore thousands of qualified applicants?
#91 | Posted by oneironaut

That's a lie.

Even the lawsuit doesn't say that.

The lawsuit admits the hired people were competent and passed all tests. They just demand it be based entirely on the test and be blind to racial background. That's literally it. They don't claim the shortage is because of it. The lawsuits doesn't even claim more people would be hired.

FACTS:

The FAA has a bottleneck for training. They can't hire more because they can't put them through training. Training takes 18-24 months.

COVID and GOP government shutdowns also caused an issue because training had to be stopped. In a program that takes 2-3 years of training before applying and 18-24 months of onboarding training, that's an huge issue.

Better yet, Republicans block FAA funding increases. So there aren't resources to hire everyone they want. It is cheaper for the FAA to not hire and just give overtime to existing air traffic controllers.

Finally Reagan cut pay huge, put in a retirement age cap, and put in medical leave requirements. So a lot of air traffic controllers have left because they aged out, moved to better paying jobs, or can't transfer to cities they want to be in. The hiring can't make up for it when a lot of people leave at once.

We have NEVER recovered from Reagan firing all the air traffic controllers on strike.

We hired more air traffic controllers in 2024 than any year in the past decade. INCLUDING under Trump.

You are a liar and a racist. Society would be better off if you never left your hole in the ground.

#104 | Posted by Sycophant

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