The White House

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Your nomination is an honor, Mr. President.  It is somewhat like the honor of being the principal in a funeral, in that one would rather decline, but is unable to. It is a thankless job, but someone has to do it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The Rail and Airlines Bill is atrocious.  I wouldn't be surprised to see a nationwide railroad strike at this attempt to eliminate Railroad Retirement without at the very least providing for a transition.  It's one thing to transition railroad employees to private pensions, but a simplistic repeal is going to leave railroad retirees in an extreme lurch, since they won't even get Social Security.  Total repeal of the Jones Act is also a bad idea, tho I wouldn't object to repealing the cabotage provisions of the Jones Act and the Passenger Services Act with respect to countries taht allow our ships the same privledge.  The same with opening up our skies to foreign airlines.  That should only be done to the same extent as other countries open their skies.  Unilateral disarmament is just as bad an idea economically as it is militarily.  As for our aviation subsidies, those are already supposedly for defense purposes so clause 3 is mere window dressing.