They've obviously been taking lessons from Alan Greenspan. "Hold on a sec while I drive a stake through the heart of the economy at the worst possible time."
Did you notice that to preserve 2 billion in federal funding, they lay 5.5 billion in costs at the feet of operators. Must be new math.

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