Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Blinkered travelers

Dr Eammon Butler of the Adam Smith Institute is challenging Paul Holmes for the title of blinkered airline passenger of the year. The various inconveniences he suffered on a recent trip to Guatemala prompted this unseemly upchucking of over-simplistic suggestions:

"If America did not have such generous welfare benefits, it would not have to spend so much effort (and cause so much grief) trying to keep people out. If US airports were privatized, they would find ways of letting people change planes without standing in immigration lines. If airlines managed their own security, it would be quicker and more sensible."

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