Jay Inslee: “I may note, too, that we hope, particularly for smaller airports, that there is Federal assistance in financing this…”

“I may note, too, that we hope, particularly for smaller airports, that there is Federal assistance in financing this thing. These machines are not inexpensive. They are extremely effective, but they are not inexpensive. And particularly for our airports that have limited revenues, we hope the Federal Government will help in the acquisition. We are going to have a stimulus bill to help stimulate the economy. We need to stimulate some safety and create some jobs building these machines. And to those people in the airline industry that say it will take too long to build these, we built 12,000 B-24s in 3 rac{1}{2} to 4 years during World War II. We can build a few hundred of these machines in the next several months to a year, and we ought to be doing that right away.”