What fees?

Hey Dirk - I have an idea...how about "big" government cut entitlements to capable citizens who have become generationally reliant on welfare, Quest (free food) cards, free medical services, housing subsidies, free phones (nicer than I own), etc., and allow the local corporations, who heavily use Crites Field for their corporate flights, to continue to fly their customers and employees in and out of the airfield SAFELY. The local corporations do much more for the local and state economy than the federal government could ever dream of!

@Greg - Good point...you mean there are no fees, they can fly their corporate planes in there for nothing?

@Annie - You paint such a rosy picture of poverty, why do we all fear becoming poor so much, with all those wonderful benefits? Because poverty, in so many ways, sucks way, way beyond the support society provides. Please tell us, where did you get your inoculation making you, Annie, immune from ever being poor someday?

Hey- Tom & Annie....When these "parasites" do work, how about they get paid enough so they CAN survive? The current minimum wage is a joke.

I know two 21 yr. old's. Both are High School Grads. Neither chose to go to a 4yr. college, which of course automatically means they are losers, right? They have gone to EVERY restaurant in Menomonee Falls, GT and many other places looking for ANY work. When they do get hired, they are offered $8/hr. and 30 hours or less per week. They can't get a 2nd or 3rd job because they are constantly given erratic hours. One week it's 6am to 1pm. Tues & Thurs. the next week 10am to 2pm and 5pm to 7pm for 5 days so scheduling a 2nd or 3rd job is impossible. If a supervisor is annoyed with them, their hours get reduced. With rents over $600/month, non existent health, dental or eye care, gas at $3.50/gal. no public transportation, what are young people who don't have the benefit of growing up with a silver spoon in their mouth supposed to do? Please tell me?

Back when the economy was good these fast food restaurants would have offered above minimum wage because there was competition for labor. Now that we are in permanent recession workers are competing for jobs.

Of course - when peole follow Obama's lead and indulge in class warfare (e.g. calling economically disadvantaged "parasites" - we are not referring to honest people who can't get onto the first rung in our economy. Instead we are referring to those who make the choice to not try. Our culture used to really approve of all work as meaningful and ennobling. Now libs have demeaned work and excused dependency. This is damaging to our culture and to those in whom liberals have encouraged dependency. Unlike Obama, we would like to see the economy grow to give the kids you cite a chance to begin their working lives.

It is sad that your acquaintances are not able to find permanent jobs. The vast majority of minimum wage jobs are (used to be) kids though and are living at home so they don't need higher wages. My kids have struggled and they were forced to move home. Perhaps your acquaintences are making bad decisions.

"they are offered $8/hr. and 30 hours or less per week."

This couldn't have anything to do with Obamacare requiring that employers provide insurance to employees working more than 30 hours per week, could it?

I have a daughter, that is visually impaired. She is another "Parasite" who gets her health insurance and prescriptions paid for. I guess because she's "defective" and will likely be a parasite all her life, she should have been euthanized at birth? She REALLY ENJOYS that $700 a month she gets to live on plus the $200 in food stamps. You would think that because her disability is caused by her vision impairment that the insurance would cover eye exams and glasses, right? It does not. She lives in a tiny 1 bedroom run down apartment on 13th and Dakota in Milwaukee with her boyfriend who does work full time (for $9/hr.) and they BARELY make it. She'd live out here but there is nowhere that has heat included for $500/month like she has now, plus she needs access to public transportation which is extremely limited around here. Her cupboards and fridge are mostly empty. In her adult life she has never been on a vacation other than an over night camping trip with friends.

By the way, the above mentioned young people would LOVE to find out about those free phones you all are talking about...

The disabled people I know would LOVE to get a job and get themselves out of poverty, but if they do, do you know that they then lose their SSI insurance AND for every dollar they earn, they loses that same amount in their monthly SSI benefit? There needs to be a complete reorganization of SSI, where individuals can GRADUALLY lose their benefits until they can earn enough income to support themselves. Right now there is NO incentive to get off SSI. How can one jump from no skills, a disability or impairment of some sort that prevents a conventional work experience into being completely self supporting?

Barb V - I never used the word "parasites." There is a reason the economy is so bad for so many, especially young adults...look who most of them voted for. I think you need to direct your anger in the right direction.

Yes, Barb wants this to be about parasites and people she knows rather than how our government catastrophically mispends money. Anybody hear about the Nat Inst Drug Abuse spending 3.6 million on studying monkeys smoking PCP and Meth?

http://menomoneefalls.patch.com/articles/faa-closes-waukesha-county-airport-traffic-control-tower?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001#comment_6794583

Excellent points, Ian! Sadly, with the liberal mainstream media as part of the Obama administration, the average person only notices the chaos (and they never blame Obama) because the full story and information and facts, such as you posted, are rarely read or heard by the majority of the citizens, who only follow mainstream, biased news reports and only hear sensationalized news sound-bites. After all, Obama is such a nice guy...and such a great father...and so smart...and a great speaker...and he would never suspend White House tours or release criminals on the streets or make our skies less safe. Meanwhile, the chaos continues...

@Annie - The so-called "liberal" mainstream media have been owned by giant profit-making,, conservative corporations for many years now. You're thinking of the 1950's, like Clark Kent and the Daily Planet in Gotham? And what about Fox and Rupert Murdock, are they "liberal" media. Is the Internet "liberal"? What about hate radio and its many ultraconservative jabberers?

Get over it, that old "liberal" media saw is getting so very tired and antiquated.

---The so-called "liberal" mainstream media have been owned by giant profit-making,, conservative corporations for many years now.

Total Trope. The mainstream media continues to cheerlead and protect Democrats and BigGovernment despite mounting losses in viewership and circulation. You guys obsess on Fox News when the truth is Fox is only slightly left of center while the rest of the media is falling off the edge.

This sequester c*&# is just the last example. Only conservative outlets are letting us compare the continuing catastrophic waste of BigGovernment against the hysteric, threatening assessment of what sequester was going to do to 'we the people'. Does one in ten Americans realize that with the sequester we are still spending more money than last year?

@red - Fox is left of center? And the giant media companies are conservative but are supporting Democrats and big government even though they lose money doing so? And all the other mainstream media are falling off the left edge?
The “Liberal Media”, is a tiresome and wholly inaccurate rant that is the centerpiece of right-wing propaganda, and miserably outdated.

The “Liberal Media”, is a tiresome and wholly inaccurate rant that is the centerpiece of right-wing propaganda, and miserably outdated.

Dirkster, its all Obama fellation all the time. There are plenty of studies showing the liberal bias of the mainstream media. Your little repetition doesn't change the truth. The media for example ganged up on Romney during the campaign while ignoring gaffes and national security disasters (Benghazi) of the Light Bringer.

As noted by National Review Online, all but one of the questions asked of Gov. Romney had to do with his “tone” and/or whether he thought it was a good idea to criticize the administration’s initial response to the attack on the Cairo embassy.

Not a single reporter asked Romney what he thinks the U.S. should do going forward.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/09/12/hot-mic-moment-reporters-heard-planning-questions-for-romney-before-presser/

As predicted by many on the right, presidential debate moderator Candy Crowley of CNN Tuesday evening came to the aid of President Obama, lending clear support to his effort to deceptively suggest that he had on Sept. 12 characterized the Sept. 11 attack on the Benghazi consulate as terrorism.

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/10/17/crowley-lends-support-obamas-benghazi-deception/

You have to be a low information voter not to see it.

@red - Oh get off it, get real, you are cherrypicking news stories and acting out as a bad information voter. If anyone turns the radio, and randomly spins the dial, particularly AM, they can listen to any number of ultraconservative radio jabberers, promoting hatred, bigotry, fear and dehumanization. Key modern practitioners include and have included Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin to name a few, and there are many more. They have a license to attack a specific group of people on the public airways without permitting any opportunity for opposing views on the same show or even station. (Unfair and unbalanced in every way.)

And this is not counting most of the "Christian" stations where I have learned that Jesus was ultraconservative politically and supported the moneychangers.

And that is just ultraconservative radio. If space allowed, I could go into TV, the internet and print media. But moderates and liberals are not trying to promote laws to restrict free speech in the media like you.

So get off it red. Your conspiracy theory is apparently a paranoid delusion. You are stuck in the past and reading issues off some Republican issues list from way back,. You would be scary if you were not so irrelevant in these modern times.

Clueless Jim. They already pay for it and have the highest tax rates in the country. Free Obama phones but public safety must be cut. Dictator Obama is having a hissy fit.

Jim B - Can you please prove that the corporate jets fly in and out of Crites Field without paying any fees? And have you no understanding of the economic impact that GE Medical and Quad Graphics, etc., have on the local economy (Economics 101 - this means primary and secondary jobs for local people and related businesses). Smaller government does not equate to stupid government. Obama handed out a lot of taxpayer money (an additional 155 million, bringing the total to 365 million U.S. dollars in foreign aid) on his recent overseas trip, yet you are stuck on the corporate welfare blame game? Please, give us facts to back up your posting.

@Annie - I have flown on corporate jets on business, and often, there is a limousine waiting on the tarmac. It is convenient, saves some travel time, and is generally more comfortable than commercial flights..

And you are trying to tell us, the taxpayers, we should pay for high dollar executives with millions in stock options so that they are not slightly put out by flying first class commercial, or just using Mitchell for their corporate planes? Corporate planes are often just ego trips, and not necessary.

Something very odd about feeling sorry for these overpaid suits who are often leeching perks off stockholders and the hard work and success of their employees, let alone the taxpayer issue.

To Dirk Gutzmiller: What world are you living in when you cannot plainly see the difference in the mainstream news coverage concerning liberal politicians vs. conservative politicians? Much news is conveniently 'omitted' or not investigated when it comes to Obama and his administration. What the mainstream media did to George W. Bush doesn't even come close to their glossed-over coverage of the current, most NON-transparent president in my lifetime. Dream on, Dirk.

Dirk - you admit you have flown on corporate jets, and oftentimes, with a limo waiting on the tarmac? So when you made use of the private jet system, I guess it was okay then? Were you doing this in a purely volunteer capacity and paying for your air ticket or was the evil corporation sharing their profits with you and paying you, feeding you, and providing your air travel? Most people will never fly on a corporate jet in their lifetimes, but those people that do fly on corporate jets usually employ many people.

We should cut the FAA towers so the sky's are less safe for everyone, right Dirk? Maybe the evil rich should have their own private police service too. They call 922 instead. You're making silly arguments here trying to defend a failed leaded and ideology.

They pay for the leaches receiving free phones and food and strippers and pay for the entire police and FAA public safety departments. Cry more.

@Annie - I got some rides on corporate jets because higher executives made the arrangements and wanted me along for some meetings. I have been there, corporate flying is generally a convenience and questionable use of shareholder and taxpayer money. It is also less safe, I have been on corporate flights where I was sitting in the co-pilot seat as a passenger.

You need to get a fresh approach. All the uber conservative commenters try to find some kind of hypocrisy when liberals or moderates disagree with them. When, as you demonstrate, the Tea Party's ox gets gored, as with these optional control towers, they scream like stuck pigs for restoration of goverment funding.

@Steve - The corporations and rich individuals can easily fund a private arrangement for taking off and landing their planes. They do not need to rely on hardworking middle class taxpayers to fund their perks and ego trips. Why do you get so upset when lack of government funding touches the lives of the rich and famous? You consistenly come across as a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people, to put it graciously.

@Annie - Your argument about the "liberal" media dates to at least Richard Nixon. Since then, there are now hundreds of cable tv channels, many, many hate talk radio stations, satellite radio for the car, the internet, etc. You can literally choose your own news source 24/7. You are obviously getting this "liberal media" thing from some "conservative media" source, like Fox, Rush or his many aspirants. There is an abundance of such "conservative media" like this today. We do not have just 3 networks anymore, Granny. Get with it.

I believe that JimB has a point. I think studies do show that General Aviation fees are lower than Commercial Aviation when infact GA is more resource intensive. Increasing these fees then could be an example of corporate welfare that should be eliminated. Government has to get smarter and more fair in all ways.

---There is an abundance of such "conservative media" like this today. We do not have just 3 networks anymore, Granny. Get with it.

Sure, but your Democratic liberal low-information voters (who voted uniformly for our Socialist president only get there news from the Big 3, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman and Jon Stewart.

KKM - are you referring to Obamacare?

Would you mind writing McConnell and Boehner? After all, there are three branches of government....sillies!

Right... there's plenty of corporate welfare being initiated by Democrats too. By the way has Obama reversed shipping jobs overseas? His energy and pro-labor policies are resisting the energy driving trend of bringing jobs back to the US.

http://mhlnews.com/archive/shale-gas-could-lower-us-manufacturing-costs-drive-re-shoring

meant to provide a link where Democrats voted FOR corporate welfare.

Oh, further examples.... Obama giving big green energy subsidies to campaign donors, who's companies fail at an alarming rate though the donors never lose money.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/11/13/how-obama-s-alternative-energy-programs-became-green-graft.html

Strange bedfellows indeed. Annie Nominous and the Teamsters Union. Just goes to show, a Tea Partier will go to great lengths and jump chasms to get or preserve government funding for their own perks and entitlements.

Dirk - you are the one person posting on this story that actually has enjoyed the "perks" of corporate jet travel, yet you name-call and accuse falsely because you have no valid points to counter the truth of the matter. Enjoy your socialist utopia that is encroaching this country by the day. I have no connection to Crites Field and its "perks," but I do care about the local economy, and now even more highly trained, technical employees, and other support jobs, will be getting cut due to the planned closure of the Crites Field tower. Additionally, local companies could possibly relocate (out-of-state) if local transportation is not optimal...it is called running a business and making a profit to pay the employees, Dirk. (GE Medical, Quad Graphics, Johnson Controls, Northwestern Mutual, Manpower, Kohl’s Corp., Harley-Davidson, Rockwell Automation and Fiserv, Inc., etc.)