Ilhan Omar Lashes Out at Elon Musk as ‘Dumbest’ Person on Earth After FAA Recruitment Plea

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OMAR: “And that — the retirement thing for air traffic controllers is also — again, it just shows how much he doesn’t know. I know people talk about him as a genius, but to me, I think he’s probably one of the dumbest, luckiest people to to exist on this earth. The retirement age for air traffic controllers, it’s 55, or 25 years of service. So, we — unless we raise their retirement age, if they’re retired, they’re not coming back. Right. Like, they were set to retire. And it is a taxing job. Like, on Friday, I went to the FAA in the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport to check in on the air traffic controllers. What we learned is that, you know, they’re at 87% capacity. It takes three years for somebody to be onboarded to be fully certified in all the equipment and become self-sufficient in order for them to be air traffic controller. They have 11 people on — in that pipeline, but they’re also set to have more than that in retirement, so they’re not going to be at 100% capacity anytime soon. We also know that for the smaller airports, whether it’s Crystal that’s in my district or the, you know, Duluth or others. That’s also true. You know, they’re at 60% capacity, at 70% capacity, some are at 40% capacity. What they’re also firing is not just air traffic controllers. They’re firing the people who support them, so technicians, when their equipment goes down, the people who make sure that their equipment is up and running so that they can actually direct the flights and where to go.”

(via Mediaite)