You know that I've got the latest information. I know that the female evaluations
occurring, and Tom I dealt with some tornado related issues where our our dB
Q hands were tied not ten years ago when Tousbu was hit, and I
tried to work on the state level to perform that. I'm now in a
position with home lunch security where hopefully we can find some solutions to the high
cost being passed upon the tax onto the taxpayer for amediation, which you know,
for Bartlesville's uh impact, you know, the down trees and just all
the debris. It's a wait, it's a way to make sure the taxpayer
dollars are not being you know, inefficiently spent for the clean up. So
we're going to be kind of looking at that also in addition to getting you
know, an idea of the total impacts, I had a question also.
I was asked to ask you about this of the FAA renewal vote to you,
you voted no. Can you tell us so why? Yeah? So
you know that bill includes the electric engine new mandate. It's got DDI Diversity
Equity inclusion type you know, Biden the administration level things, and it's a
four year reauthorization. So number one, why would we reauthorize and keep that
those kind of policies in place for that length period up til twenty twenty eight?
But Tom, the bigger, bigger thing for me is is the cost
it increases just a four year period, two billion more, one hundred percent
of what Congress spends an entire year debate discretionary budget is now borrowed money.
The only thing we have enough funds to pay for is Medicare, Social Security,
Medicaid, food stamps, interest on our debt, veteran benefits. You
know I just mentioned is the bulk of mandatory spending. Mandatory spending, it's
locked aside and only Congress terms eligibility consumes all revenue. Now, last year
we tripped that threshold, So what's the discretionary budget? What's left over?
What Congress spends the entirety of the year debating punning levels for which this falls
in is now one hundred percent taking from our future, of our children.
And so when we are plussing up what is already bankrupt, a budget that
is already bankrupt, with no plan to pay for it, and we're plussing
up another another two billion over a four year timeframe. We can't afford the
government we've got, and so it is. It is the height of irresponsibility
to keep doing this without cutting and having the plan to pay for it.
We are like the So I'll use this pun intended. It's like the airplane
that's trying to get off the ground. The pilot is screaming to everybody,
all right, we're talking about FAA, all right, aviation specific. This
pilot's trying to get off the ground, and son, everybody looks too much
weight on the plane. Everybody tossed your watches and your your bags off the
plane, and we can save the lives. We're a one hundred mile an
hour. We need to take off. Everybody throw everything out the window.
We'll be able to get off the ground and not have a crash. And
everybody goes, now, I'd rather keep my stuff. That's Congress. Nobody
wants to make the hard choices to preserve the future. And we're headed for
a crash because everybody's holding on their luggage and their goodies so tightly. So
that's a great word picture. Nobody wants to pay for this stuff. Everybody
wants to stop, and nobody wants to pay for it. There's a cost
coming. And let me add one more thing. That bill also had four
billion dollars specific to New York in ear mark. Four billion dollars enough to
do two hundred miles a border wall on the Texas Mexico border right now.
Four billion dollars of ear marks that Chuck Schimer wantn't put in there for the
Air for Frevement Fund