The Transportation Security Administration(TSA) has announced that they will remove restrictions on blades under 2.36 inches and narrower than a half inch. That's right, effective April 25 of this year passengers are now allowed to carry on board their pocketknives or any blade that fits the new regulations by the TSA. The Administration has said that after analyses they have deemed them as a non threat item.
I believe that the new regulation should not have been approved. The TSA Administrator Jhon Pistole has declare that " A small pocketknife is simply not going to result in the catastrophic failure of an aircraft". And yes maybe a blade does not have the potential to create huge damage to an aircraft, but it certainly can be consider as a weapon with the potential to create damage to a person. There is always the risk of misuse for a blade, because that kind of artifact can easily be use to damage flesh and arteries which can be lethal on cases. There could be a group of people that get together and plot to attack at the same time and that making it a little bit more harder to defend each other when there is a lot of people trying to attack.
Unions representing employees from various branches of the field have already presented their opposition to the new regulations showing that the people who is on the air on a regular basis do not feel safe knowing that blades are allowed to be carry on board. As a potential passenger, I can absolutely say that it definitely does not agree with me having to worry when am flying about the possibility of someone using a blade with malicious intentions.
It is understandable that they want to focus more on the detection of explosive devices, the ones with the potential of causing mayor destruction, but at the end of the day it looks like they going after the big monster by sacrificing the little and seemingly nonthreatening little one. We have to remember that in the world we are living now days there is no small enemies, we have to look out for the little things that have the potential to become a big issue with just a little room for a chance.
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=462748
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/opinion/dont-let-knives-back-on-planes.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Friday, March 29, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
Is it O.K if corporations do it?
On March 4,2013 The New York Times Published Mooching Off Medicaid by Paul Krugman, to those who have a firm believe on how the conservatives are on comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, about giving to the ones who have already have a lot. Them having a cynical view on the current state over medicare. Medicaid being a very successful program which helps provide health insurance to lower income Americans, which is getting and will get bigger based on the Obama care health care plan. As we know the republican are of less government spending, buy still will agree to the expansion of the Obama health care plan, why? For the main reason that it would mostly run through private insurance companies.
Krugman states by them wanting for it to run through private insurances it tells us a lot in what the Republicans really want; which at the end of the day it would be beneficial a lot towards them. He points out the Florida case where governor Rick Scott made his fortune in the health industry. In which he also pleaded guilty on criminal fraud charge paying $1.7 billion dollars in fines based on medicare. Elected as a fierce opponent of he Obama care plan and went to the supreme court in order to base it unconstitutional. But now why did he shockingly declared his support for medicare expansion. But on the sole condition only if after he received a waiver letting him run medicaid through the private insurance. Yeah right only after gaining something out of it. Raw Political Power-letting the medical industry continue to get away with a lot overcharging was in effect one of the prices that Obama had to pay for the plan to pass. If it meant tens of millions would receive insurances.
I agree that even though the conservatives party talks and talks saying a lot, about having low tax rates for the big companies and only looking out for the rich, but at the end they would always give in-only if their is something profitable for them.
Krugman states by them wanting for it to run through private insurances it tells us a lot in what the Republicans really want; which at the end of the day it would be beneficial a lot towards them. He points out the Florida case where governor Rick Scott made his fortune in the health industry. In which he also pleaded guilty on criminal fraud charge paying $1.7 billion dollars in fines based on medicare. Elected as a fierce opponent of he Obama care plan and went to the supreme court in order to base it unconstitutional. But now why did he shockingly declared his support for medicare expansion. But on the sole condition only if after he received a waiver letting him run medicaid through the private insurance. Yeah right only after gaining something out of it. Raw Political Power-letting the medical industry continue to get away with a lot overcharging was in effect one of the prices that Obama had to pay for the plan to pass. If it meant tens of millions would receive insurances.
I agree that even though the conservatives party talks and talks saying a lot, about having low tax rates for the big companies and only looking out for the rich, but at the end they would always give in-only if their is something profitable for them.
"As long as the spending ends up lining the right pockets, and the undeserving beneficiaries of public largess are politically connected corporations, conservatives with actual power seem to like Big Government just fine"
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