On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:06, DvB wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
