The shortage of ATC staff dates back to the Clinton Administration. It’s just hard to attract people into a 5+ year training program for a very stressful job where you might get bounced near the end with no payout and no transferrable job skills.

This goes much deeper than just A vs B. As long as you Americans keep thinking this way, it will all remain the same sadly.

No, I mean government. This has been a problem for a long time and there hasn't been any serious effort to improve the situation by anyone.

Yes. Reagan was a Republican.