Re: shuttle disaster

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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.