How’s that “drill, baby, drill” thing workin’ out for ya?
4 thoughts on “Question for Sarah Palin”
I don’t know if our airports are safer with TSA than they were with private security. Guns won’t help if there’s a bomb in the checked baggage, like there was with Pam Am 103 in 1988. I do know that overseas airports still present a serious threat to America, as seen on Christmas over Detroit. But whether or not air travel is safer now doesn’t invalidate what I said about the “penny wise and pound foolish” approach that the airlines took before 9/11.
Doug,
Do you believe that the government’s involvement and control of airport security has actually improved the situation? We are NO safer than before 911 except for minor changes…securing the cockpit doors and allowing some pilots to carry guns spring to mind as changes that might actually make air travel a little safer.
Paul – All I did was dish the same asinine sarcastic comment that she made about Obama’s “hopey changey thing.” Sarah Palin is ridiculous. She represents nothing. Joe the Plumber represented nothing. They are opportunists out for whatever they can get for themselves.
And, of course, Obama actually acted upon the “drill, baby, drill” sentiment, so he’s looking worse himself from the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. What this episode proves is that you can’t believe the corporations — whether they be BP or Goldman Sachs — when they say, “Trust us, we know what we’re doing.” (There is one company I do trust — the one I work for. I haven’t said its name, and I won’t, but it’s privately held and the CEO has no love of banks.)
There needs to be oversight and control. This doesn’t mean nationalizing the companies, it means holding them to a standard other than maximizing short-term financial self-interest, which has a nasty habit of turning against them anyway. The airlines fought tighter security at airports for ages, insisting they’d take care of it themselves, and 9/11 was the result.
Hey…how’s that $5 per gallon for gas going to work out for ya? One terrible accident out of 3000 offshore wells…(I’m not downplaying the seriousness of this spill) but keep sending billions of dollars each year to radical nations whio want to kill us seems like a pretty stupid “energy plan” to me.
I don’t know if our airports are safer with TSA than they were with private security. Guns won’t help if there’s a bomb in the checked baggage, like there was with Pam Am 103 in 1988. I do know that overseas airports still present a serious threat to America, as seen on Christmas over Detroit. But whether or not air travel is safer now doesn’t invalidate what I said about the “penny wise and pound foolish” approach that the airlines took before 9/11.
Hey, look what just came up this very second —
http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC100517-0000058/Fighter-jets-escort-plane-in-bomb-scare
Doug,
Do you believe that the government’s involvement and control of airport security has actually improved the situation? We are NO safer than before 911 except for minor changes…securing the cockpit doors and allowing some pilots to carry guns spring to mind as changes that might actually make air travel a little safer.
Paul – All I did was dish the same asinine sarcastic comment that she made about Obama’s “hopey changey thing.” Sarah Palin is ridiculous. She represents nothing. Joe the Plumber represented nothing. They are opportunists out for whatever they can get for themselves.
And, of course, Obama actually acted upon the “drill, baby, drill” sentiment, so he’s looking worse himself from the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. What this episode proves is that you can’t believe the corporations — whether they be BP or Goldman Sachs — when they say, “Trust us, we know what we’re doing.” (There is one company I do trust — the one I work for. I haven’t said its name, and I won’t, but it’s privately held and the CEO has no love of banks.)
There needs to be oversight and control. This doesn’t mean nationalizing the companies, it means holding them to a standard other than maximizing short-term financial self-interest, which has a nasty habit of turning against them anyway. The airlines fought tighter security at airports for ages, insisting they’d take care of it themselves, and 9/11 was the result.
Hey…how’s that $5 per gallon for gas going to work out for ya? One terrible accident out of 3000 offshore wells…(I’m not downplaying the seriousness of this spill) but keep sending billions of dollars each year to radical nations whio want to kill us seems like a pretty stupid “energy plan” to me.