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PHOENIX -- The so-called 'sequestration' is one week away and it threatens to shut down four Arizona air-traffic control facilities.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday said Glendale Municipal, Phoenix Goodyear, Laughlin/Bullhead City International Airports and Ryan Field Tucson are among 100 air-traffic control facilities that will be closed if Congress and President Obama can't come to an agreement to stop massive budget cuts.

Shutdowns would begin in April. The White House warned that impending spending cuts would cause delays in air travel.

The FAA also plans to cut overnight shifts at 60 airports nationwide. None of those in Arizona.

Jim Cross, Reporter

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    Navigator1 wrote...
    So a 2% cut
    February 22, 2013 11:50 am
    in the increased budget would do all that damage? Has the news media swallowed all of this BS? Silly questions.
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    Bearman wrote...
    Navigator1
    February 22, 2013 1:42 pm
    The media has more than bought into the Obama Messiah fear tactics and willing to pass them on. Fearful people will read, watch, and listen to various so called news (propaganda) sources and they are being mislead. Obama is the one who signed the bill. He is responsible! Obama is also responsible for these fear tactics. Joseph Goebbels reincarnated. If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
    Politically incorrect and proud of it.
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    icyou wrote...
    Or
    February 22, 2013 2:21 pm
    cut the obama (that's lower case for a reason) phone program to about 1 million slackers. Wala! airports back in service!
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    wrote...
    Sounds like
    February 22, 2013 4:11 pm
    Sounds like the administration is trying to maximize the inconvienence (or threat thereof) so they can get their way. They don't care about "we the people", they care more about their power and games.
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    SurpriseMe wrote...
    cut cut cut
    February 22, 2013 6:15 pm
    This is why bigger government is bad. smaller government is best. We need these major cuts. In fact the cuts are not big enough. trust the people and allow us run things. After all we run most business so much better then any politician run the government.
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    2cents wrote...
    Awwwww
    February 23, 2013 6:19 am
    Obama tried to strong arm Congress into his tax-and-spend party by threatening sequestration . . . . they called his bluff . . . and now hes selling the story that sequestration will be GOPs fault. At least Bush wasnt blamed for this one.
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