TSA is not as bad as the Airlines themselves. They hire subcontractors and outsource vital security functions to people who have little or no education and are desperate for a job. These employees are told they are getting airline jobs in which there is room for promotion and growth. Instead, they are paid minimum wage where they do nothing, are poorly trained, and actually pressured not to take on responsibility for security or customer service. Employees are reprimanded and even fired for alerting supervisors or TSA officials to lapses in security.
This is your real culprit. Airline management’s corporate greed.
Thanks for that boring comment. And now for the more entertaining alternative.
The Chinese have been big polluters so as long as everyone outsources manufacturing so that the Chinese, as proxies for American industry, are making all our goods. Their wonderful government, unlike the hypocritical United States Congress, doesn't make any bones about being "green." They only want to be "green" by making money.
I don't think that if we make the Chinese manufacture "green products" it is necessarily a bad thing because it might be better to let the Chinese manufacture "green" products than products that are not green, becasue that may be the only way to get China to stop making products that pollute the Planet than forcing them to live up to a Climate Treaty in a country that is so vast, you'd have to send a million little bureaucratic Marco Polos to discover the environmental violations there and a million little bureaucratic Marco Polos to figure out if these little Marco Polos found any violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
But the West is no better. Cigarette-smoking gendarmes are no more likely to police environmental crimes assiduously as the gendarmes in the film, Irma La Douce (1953) were prosecuting environmental crimes in Paris.
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It is really hard to make it as a small business owner. You get bogged down will all of the different hat you wear and all of the little things you do that seem to take more time than you expect. It seems like washington is here to bail out the big corporations, but what about the small business that create most of the jobs. I DO NOT want a bail out for small businesses, but the least Washington can do is to create an atmosphere of stability. Many small business are not hiring because they do not know what the government is going to change or tinker with. How will 2011 tax effect my business? How will health care effect my business? How will lending restriction effect my business? How will inflation effect my business. We as small business owners must unify on what we agree on and stand up for ourselves. I am not a member of the Chamber, but we need organizations like the Chamber to fight for us,
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