Rep. Cammack announces $6.3M grant awarded to Gainesville Regional Airport for infrastructure improvements
Press release from Congresswoman Kat Cammack
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL-03) announced the Gainesville Regional Airport’s award of $6,354,437 to improve infrastructure and acquire a new aircraft firefighting vehicle.
“Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) continues to be an important part of our community in North Central Florida, providing commercial and chartered flights each day to destinations across the south and along the eastern seaboard,” said Congresswoman Cammack. “To continue the service patrons have come to expect at Gainesville Regional, it’s imperative to improve the infrastructure and continue to attract more travelers who deserve the best visitor experience possible. I know GNV will put the funds to good use, and I look forward to seeing the improvements.”
“We appreciate the efforts of all who helped to make this grant possible,” said Allan J. Penska, Chief Executive Officer of the Gainesville Regional Airport. “These funds are vital to our continued growth and maintenance of key infrastructure. The state-of-the-art aircraft firefighting and rescue vehicle will replace an older unit that is due for retirement. Continued improvements to our general aviation pavements allow us to better serve the many charter aircraft that visit our facility, facilitate new storage hangars, and extend the life of critical infrastructure.”
The grant is part of the FY23 Airport Improvement Program (AIP) administered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Well 😳 it’s not really rewarded but alloted to GNV AIRPORT because of Bidens Infrastructure bill which she voted no on.. then gaslight dummies into thinking 🤔 she’s bringing this to Gainesville on her own.. omg 😲 you can’t make this shiz up..
So much 4 free speech 💬..this paper gets blocking 🚫 me from commenting.. I don’t make threats or use profanity but yet racist get to say and imply whatever they want.. niiiiiiiiice
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Rep Kat and Mayor Harvey both eat from and redistribute from the federal coffers. Two sides of the same coin. No reason fed money should needed to maintain a regional airport. No real details in press release but it sounds like most funds will be used for charter/private aircraft pavement and hangers. I know a fire truck doesn’t cost several million. Scratch Kat’s back and she’ll scratch your’s right back! So disgusting to see politicians from all sides redistributing money we don’t have
“sounds like most funds will be used for charter/private aircraft pavement and hangers.”
General aviation customers pay rent for hanger space, buy fuel, etc. which is revenue to help support the airport.
Thanks President Biden, congressional Democrats, and a few Republicans – no, not you Kat – for passing the Infrastructure Bill to get us into the 21st century. Most of the rest of the developed world, including China, have facilities, roads, tracks, etc that make us look like a 3rd world country. Note that unlike when the GOP was in charge, this legislation is not targeted to states and areas that voted for the President, but to all America. The internet bill is particularly aimed at rural regions which have been all red in the last 2 presidential elections.
Jazzman, We’re using borrowed money from China to pay for all this. Nothing is free.
Of course Red. I have run business with payroll for 40+ years and I pay taxes. Infrastructure is the cost of doing business and maintaining public facilities for business and personal interactions. I doubt any of us would not fix a leak in our roof because we owed money and similarly we will lose in the long run by ignoring infrastructure costs.
As to the national debt:
“Earlier this year, the U.S. hit the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling….
First, the debt held by the public stands at more than $24.64 trillion. This represents debt securities, like Treasury bonds and notes, bought by banks, insurance companies, state and local governments, foreign governments and private investors.
The remaining debt, which totals about $6.83 trillion, can be classified as intragovernmental holdings. This is basically debt the government owes itself. “For example, some federal trust funds invest in Treasury securities, thereby lending money to [the] Treasury,” according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The Social Security Administration, the Department of Defense and the United States Postal Service all have investment holdings in federal debt.
In total, other territories hold about $7.4 trillion in U.S. debt. Japan owns the most at $1.1 trillion, followed by China, with $859 billion, and the United Kingdom at $668 billion….”
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/05/26/who-does-the-u-s-owe-31-4-trillion/
Japan’s debt to GDP ratio is twice that of the US, and the greatest recent impact on all countries national debt was the pandemic, which also triggered international inflation. Among developed countries in Europe and the US, we have done the best at lowering it, but it is a worldwide phenomenon.
The plandemic did not cause inflation…this has unfortunately become a talking point for both the Biden and the Trump camp. Since January 2020, the United States has printed nearly 80% of all US dollars in existence. When that amount of money is created out of thin air so quickly it will always debase the currency, which is why everything is so expensive now. The financial markets (behind the scenes) were collapsing in the fall of 2019 and the Covid money printer excuse saved the day just in time… read up on the overnight repo market fiasco that reached a boiling point fall 2019
It’s called supply and demand Slice.
“In 37 of these 44 nations, the average annual inflation rate in the first quarter of this year was at least twice what it was in the first quarter of 2020, as COVID-19 was beginning its deadly spread. In 16 countries, first-quarter inflation was more than four times the level of two years prior. (For this analysis, we used data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of mostly highly developed, democratic countries. The data covers 37 of the 38 OECD member nations, plus seven other economically significant countries.)….
Regardless of the absolute level of inflation in each country, most show variations on the same basic pattern: relatively low levels before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in the first quarter of 2020; flat or falling rates for the rest of that year and into 2021, as many governments sharply curtailed most economic activity; and rising rates starting in mid- to late 2021, as the world struggled to get back to something approaching normal…”
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/15/in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world-inflation-is-high-and-getting-higher/
And the US is doing better lowering inflation than Europe:
“Both US and EU annual inflation declined last month, now standing at 4% and 6.1%, respectively. That’s much lower than a year ago, but still above the 2-3% target that central banks aim for.Jun 21, 2023..”
https://www.gzeromedia.com/eu-inflation-vs-us-inflation#:~:text=Both%20US%20and%20EU%20annual,that%20central%20banks%20aim%20for.
By the way, analysts now predict an only 1 in 5 chance that the US economy will enter recession in the next year or so, a huge improvement and especially given the uncertainty of the pandemic effect.
You really have no grasp on monetary policy (or fiscal policy). You cannot ignore the fact that creating money causes inflation….and you don’t understand that as the reserve currency, many other currencies are tied to the dollar…so when our government and central bank irresponsibly prints money as they’ve done recently it will obviously cause inflation with other related currencies. You need a lesson in monetary policy asap
Slice, the damage to supply lines and employment during the pandemic was world wide, not a unique US phenomenon, and the resulting severely lower economic activity threatened to lead us into a very grave recession, and/or depression (After all, a recession or depression is defined as lowered economic activity with high unemployment – helloooo!) Leaders of both parties and almost all economists rightly judged the most severe and lasting damage would come from letting that happen, not the more manageable problems – primarily inflation – that economic stimulation would bring.
That has proved correct as inflation is now down below 3%, we have almost full employment, and the chances of our economy going into recession is now estimated by the FED to be 1 in 5. That is a very safe landing from a crisis unprecedented in our modern times of global economic interdependency. High oil prices for instance is not a US problem caused by Biden’s long range plans, but a global fact having nothing to do with him or those long range plans.
In contrast, your theory ignores the real events of the last 3 1/2 years and implies that gritting it out would have been a better plan, though recessions and depressions can be very difficult and expensive to get out of. Did Washington spend too much in stimulation? Probably, but the greater part of the total was a wise choice.
our interest payment on national debt is now $1 trillion dollars.
there is about 5 senators and congressman worth keeping the rest should hang for the future debt left to my grandchildren!
” CBO projects that interest payments on the national debt will increase an additional 35 percent this year, to $640 billion.”
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/02/interest-costs-on-the-national-debt-are-on-track-to-reach-a-record-high