business process free engineering services to clients and most is the federal government and so these decisions, these budget decisions impact us daily because they are pretty much how we supply the jobs through the company. so when sequester first hit, we had a loss of about ten positions. so i had to ultimately terminate those folks and we were just starting to pull it back together, just starting to get the company back on the right track and looking at winning some things and then this shutdown. well then just as a final question to you, you know, ironically, one of the talking points we hear from the republicans is that the affordable care act is a job killer and that s why we have to repeal it. you know, the affordable care act is only a job killer for those employers who want it to be and decided and made that choice that it s going to be a job killer. i very much understand the logic and that if you have a very happy, healthy work force they re going to be more productive a
brewing for years. they ve been putting off major budget decisions because republicans and democrats can t agree on how large government should be and has come to a head right at this point. now, is a compromise possible? we ll see. i ll tell you first of all where exactly we are now. after back and forth, back and forth, over the last three days, it s come down to this moment where house republicans say they want to go to a conference committee, which is where the house and senate usually would get together to work out differences. but senate democrats, president obama s party, they say that s just a ploy, because they re not going to compromise. they say all they want is a spending bill with nobody else attached. what s the point of a conference committee? in other words, john, both sides are accusing the other of blocking compromise. and that s what you call politics. reporter: exactly. we re at the situation now, eventually as joe johns said, something has to happen. when wil
michael whairt ta did respond in a letter saying the faa values the role of general aviation and understands its importance to our nation. the current budget environment is requiring us to make difficult budget decisions. the eaa is petitioning the court to intervene. a decision could come in the midst of august. that $279,000 diddy, i mentioned you could pick that up. where are you going to park that? reporter: pocket change. i ll park it in your garage. you can drive 0 it anyti anytim lawmakers trading punches and throwing water at each other as an all-out brawl breaks out inside parliament. th that s our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. taiwan. they were considering a measure to allow construction of a fourth nuclear power plant. the ruling nationalist party supports the idea. the main opposition says it has serious safety concerns over nuclear projects since the
show up, this airfield is the busiest airport in the world for the duration of the show. but this year, due to the sequester, the faa told organizers they government would no longer be able to put air traffic controllers in the tower, and to the experimental air craft associating was forced to come up with nearly half a million dollars. with the provisos if you don t pay for the the services we won t be there and you can t have the event, and we have already contracted, sold, had in place this event. so that s you can t define being held hostage more accurately than that. i don t know what else you would say. the faa administrator responded sag the faa values the role of general aviation and understands its importance to our nation. the the current budget environment is requiring us to make difficult budget decisions. pilots say the faa is making
tower, the faa said due to sequester, there was no money to pay for it. put them up or cancel. with the proviso if you don t pay for the services, we won t be there, you can t have an event. we already contracted, sold, had in place this event. so that is you can t define being held hostage more accurately than that, i don t know what else you would say. reporter: the eaa petition, senators and congressman wrote the faa, the administrator responded, the faa values the role of general aviation and understands its importance to our nation. the current budget environment is requiring us to make difficult budget decisions. pilots sporting buttons that read this isn t over say the government made a political decision. the president they say has never been a friend to aviation because it is convenient to pay private pilots as rich guys that can afford things like