Good day all. As secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, aka Pete Buttplug had one job to do. Make sure the transportation infrastructure was maintained and upgraded, especially the air traffic system. Did he actually do any part of his job?
What that worthless failure did, when he wasn’t on “Paternity” leave for the better part of a year, or dodging any responsibility for ships hitting bridges, and being sure he was far away when trains derailed, was waste $80 billion dollars on WOKE DEI crap. Here are the details from the New York Post:
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg failed to replace outdated air traffic control systems while in office — with his agency instead shelling out tens of billions of dollars on a DEI agenda, according to federal spending records and airline industry insiders.
In one meeting, Buttigieg — who is said to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run — told industry executives that air traffic control upgrades would just allow them to fly more planes, “and so why would that be in his interest?” sources said.
I hope there is a recording out there of that idiot saying this. Frankly, it would, in my completely unschooled opinion, show a depraved indifference to the safety of air travelers. As for his plans to run for president in 2028?
What his department was really interested in was handing out hundreds of diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling more than $80 billion over four years — at least half of the DOT’s entire budget for a typical fiscal year, records show.
“He was definitely pushing an agenda,” an air industry official said, noting the transportation secretary had “little to no interest” and took “definitely zero action” toward air traffic control modernization.
Pushing an agenda? More like criminal fraud if you ask me. I checked my archives and I found this post. It’s about Buttplug threatening airlines over canceled flights. This tells me he was just covering his own butt, well politically speaking anyway. Normally it was wide open and ready for use.
Buttigieg spent his time in President Joe Biden’s cabinet blaming the airlines for their delays and “vilifying” the industry as a whole while denying his department’s DEI agenda led to any air traffic control staffing shortages or was maintaining an ailing safety system that hasn’t been updated since the Carter administration, sources told The Post.
So he basically lied. What a surprise. I seem to recall that Congress did appropriate funds to do upgrades to the ATC, (Air Traffic Control), system. I wonder how much went into his own bank accounts? In any case, this criminally incompetent fool’s refusal to do his job has cost this country billions, if not trillions of dollars. It’s also gotten people killed. Recall the army helicopter that hit an airliner. The ATC tower was way understaffed for the load they were handling.
“At first, [the Department of Transportation] and he were reluctant to say there was an air traffic controller shortage or that the shortage had anything to do with flight delays or flight cancellations,” the air industry official said.
Of course not. It would make him look bad and the one thing that Pete Buttplug will not tolerate is anything that makes him look bad.
Chris Meagher, a spokesman for Buttigieg, rejected both claims and pointed to increased air traffic controller hiring under the former transportation big, as well as software changes to improve efficiency at airport runways, new flight routes projected to cut up to 100 hours off travel time annually and the development of communications technology to decrease flight delays.
I have a suspicion that the current Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, working with the Department of Government Efficiency, is doing a full audit of what fund were spent where during to reign of error of Pete Buttplug.
The DOT’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows that most flight cancellations (54.3%) were caused by weather during Buttigieg’s term, whereas a little more than one-third (34.7%) were attributable to air carriers. Just 10.6% were due to failures in the national aviation system.
Nearly 80% of flights were on time between January 2021 and 2025. Almost 7% of delays were due to air carriers, another 7% for late-arriving aircraft, and 5% was attributable to the aviation system. Less than 1% were attributable to weather.
Despite what the Church of Global Warming and Climate Change preaches, you can’t do anything about the weather. However, saying that “Just 10.6% of the delays was due to the National Aviation System” sounds more like a cover up to me. That is a very high rate of failure for, not a mission critical system, but THE mission critical system. It might be impossible to have zero failures, but 10% is atrocious.
Airline industry officials acknowledged that carrier delays persisted coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic but argued that much of the infrastructure law’s funding “went to maintenance” of facilities and equipment, which is roughly $3.5 billion annually, not “modernization.”
It’s always been a problem to get the ATC system upgraded. One major issue is bureaucratic. The FAA and DOT have a bad case of “Not invented here.” when it comes to new ideas and features.
They argued that while hiring improved in recent years, there was still a high dropout rate and surging retirements from veteran air traffic controllers.
That is another issue that’s come to light since the return to office of the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump. It’s been discovered that when hiring and training new Air Traffic Controllers, the first priority was not competence and ability to learn and do the job, but Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Despite the requested changes to the air traffic control systems early in his term, Buttigieg seemed more interested in being “good on TV” than fixing the archaic systems that were flying up to 182 million passengers per year, officials said.
And this surprises you? This has been Buttplug’s modis operendi for his entire political life starting back when he was Mayor of South Bend Indiana. When he was confirmed as the Secretary of Transportation, the first order of business for him was a long vacation. Granted, the problems with the ATC system predate him, however, he did have the resources and authority to fix the system. What he lacked was the competence or the desire to do so.
The Federal Aviation Administration has been chronically understaffed for years, with the agency employing only around 80% of the target for certified professional controllers at least since fiscal year 2017, which airline officials argued was the main factor forcing delays and cancellations.
From what I’ve read, it isn’t recruiting people. They have plenty of applicants. However, the training process takes a good year, and then there are other hurdles to get certified. I understand that Air Traffic Controllers are trained at private schools. During my research, I found one local to the Anger Central offices.
As I understand it, once they complete their classes, they have to be approved by the DOT, which includes a security clearance. That is one hold up. The other? DEI. The DOT didn’t look at grades, test scores or anything else that would show that an applicant was what they were looking for. They were looking to fill DEI check boxes.
In January 2023, the agency ordered the first nationwide grounding of flights since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that left thousands of passengers stranded. The 2023 grounding was due to an FAA system outage.
I remember that. If I recall Correctly, it was the NOTAM system that collapsed. This is the system that provides the latest information to pilots, such as No Fly Zones and potential weather problems. Buttplug’s people sent out a computer patch, apparently with no real testing or a rollback provision and it crashed the system.
In an urgent letter to Buttigieg’s DOT in April 2024, air industry trade association officials warned that at the current rate of hiring, it could take as long as 90 years for the FAA to reach its targeted staffing levels in some of the critical New York air traffic control centers.
And Buttplug’s response to this?
At the same time, the focus of the department under Buttigieg also shifted, with roughly 400 DEI-related grants approved, according to a review of federal spending between 2021 and 2024.
The NY Post article lists several programs that money was wasted on, including the infamous $5 billion that was supposed to be spent building 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles. They built 7. As to where all the money went? My guess is to assorted Progressive bank accounts as “Consulting fees.”
At the same time, the focus of the department under Buttigieg also shifted, with roughly 400 DEI-related grants approved, according to a review of federal spending between 2021 and 2024.
Just 12 days before the election, Buttigieg’s DOT moved to implement a federal rule giving passengers compensation for every delay and cancellation of up to $1,000, even if it was higher than the original fare, prompting a blistering statement from a top airline trade association calling it a political stunt.
It would have been a very expensive one if it had gone into effect. Right off the bat, every single airline would have sued. You would also have seen massive fights over who was actually responsible for the flight delay or cancellation. Finally, it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility that Airlines would simply have shut down and refused to fly. I would suppose that they would have cited “Safety concerns” as the reason.
With the passage of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill earlier this month, Republicans have now approved $12.5 billion in additional spending for Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to revamp the old Federal Aviation Administration systems.
I have little doubt that Secretary Duffy is already getting the right people into place to start upgrading the systems. I know that he’s killed all the DEI programs that blocked a large number of applicants from becoming ATC’s. As for that useless idiot, Pete Buttplug? He’s looking at running for president in 2028.
Yes, he wants to continue his record of failing miserably, upward. The only problem with that is now people can look at his track record. I think the general answer will be:
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