The BBC has a tsk tsk article on Italian nepotism. This explains why Italy is in economic trouble. Or not.
As an example, the article focusses on schools and how so many on a faculty have the same name. Is the BBC aware of how many people within a USA university are related to others within a University? And since the state is starving the classroom to save money for war, college professors are finding that to live the spouse better be tenured.
What I would want to know is whether nepotism is a problem. When we have countless pointless positions, like TSA agent, they Italians may have none. Nepotism in a real job surely is less damage then meritocracy in pointless make-work.
And speaking of the TSA, they will now allow retractable blades less than 2" long on airplanes. You mean like boxcutters, the weapon used on 9-11? Are they mocking us? Or just trying to not be so different than the rest of the world. How is that first knife different from boxcutters?
The decision to permit certain items in carry-on luggage was made as part of TSA’s overall risk-based security approach and aligns TSA with International Civil Aviation Organization Standards and our European counterparts.
Visiting USA has been declining due to USA treatment of visitors. Anyone travelling overseas finds no where near the airport nonsense we have in USA. (Except when they figure out you are an American, then what goes around comes around. I've been pulled aside for abuse by officials whose countrymen were abused in USA.)
I don't think we have anything to learn from Italy, but we do need ot make protecting airliners an airline problem, not a state problem.
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As an example, the article focusses on schools and how so many on a faculty have the same name. Is the BBC aware of how many people within a USA university are related to others within a University? And since the state is starving the classroom to save money for war, college professors are finding that to live the spouse better be tenured.
What I would want to know is whether nepotism is a problem. When we have countless pointless positions, like TSA agent, they Italians may have none. Nepotism in a real job surely is less damage then meritocracy in pointless make-work.
And speaking of the TSA, they will now allow retractable blades less than 2" long on airplanes. You mean like boxcutters, the weapon used on 9-11? Are they mocking us? Or just trying to not be so different than the rest of the world. How is that first knife different from boxcutters?
The decision to permit certain items in carry-on luggage was made as part of TSA’s overall risk-based security approach and aligns TSA with International Civil Aviation Organization Standards and our European counterparts.
Visiting USA has been declining due to USA treatment of visitors. Anyone travelling overseas finds no where near the airport nonsense we have in USA. (Except when they figure out you are an American, then what goes around comes around. I've been pulled aside for abuse by officials whose countrymen were abused in USA.)
I don't think we have anything to learn from Italy, but we do need ot make protecting airliners an airline problem, not a state problem.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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