Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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... >
I got the impression that the level of training they received had a lot to do with it. They were polite, knew what they were doing and sort of had that "the customer's always right" attitude (or as much of it as a baggage ispector can have and still do the job). Other than that, I have no idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
