Re: shuttle disaster
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:06, DvB wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 00:27, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:55:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > Ummm, somehow I don't think that when W was inaugurated, he was planning
> > > > on having these new burdens placed on the Federal budget...
> > >
> > > Yeah, but that only accounts for the Afghan War last year, and
> > > *possibly* North Korea. Iraq is his own doing here.
> >
> > You mentioned "Department of Homeland Security, with most of it in the
> > Transportation Safety Administration". That would have happened with
> > or without Iraq.
> >
> > Oh, and btw, it was the Democrats pushing to have all of the baggage
> > screeners federalized, in the notion that would somehow make them
> > competent.
> >
>
> Last time I flew, I was actually very impressed with the competence of
> the baggage screeners relative to the old ones. I made comments to
> friends and family to that effect.
I wonder if the old ones were fired? Would adequate pay have attracted
competent workers in the 1st place? We'll never know...
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