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But Chertoff is making money – The Chertoff group has Rapiscan as one of it’s paying clients.

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Do you want to know something more interesting? In future, Chertoff would also like to sell you a way to bypass these X-ray machines by paying a monthly subscription to his biometric ID system. That is American entrepreneurship at its best!!!

[enron_by_the_sea]

[quote=UCGal]

But Chertoff is making money – The Chertoff group has Rapiscan as one of it’s paying clients.

[/quote]

Do you want to know something more interesting? In future, Chertoff would also like to sell you a way to bypass these X-ray machines by paying a monthly subscription to his biometric ID system. That is American entrepreneurship at its best!!!

[enron_by_the_sea]

[quote=UCGal]

But Chertoff is making money – The Chertoff group has Rapiscan as one of it’s paying clients.

[/quote]

Do you want to know something more interesting? In future, Chertoff would also like to sell you a way to bypass these X-ray machines by paying a monthly subscription to his biometric ID system. That is American entrepreneurship at its best!!!

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I would opt out of the ones that use X-rays. Yes I know that the radiation they emit is supposedly low.

However I am not willing to gamble my life on the bet that some person that I don’t know at the TSA has set the machine up correctly, that they haven’t malfunctioned since the last person went in, that they were calibrated and tested properly on that day etc.

At least if you go through a CAT scan in a hospital, supposedly trained workers operate those units and they are not used in such a heavy duty fashion.

I still can’t figure out why they did not just use the millimeter wave machines which would have been a lot safer, even if malfunction happened.

I don’t have any issues with nude photos or intrusive pat downs. They are just annoyances that I am willing to go through to catch the underwear bomber!

[enron_by_the_sea]

I would opt out of the ones that use X-rays. Yes I know that the radiation they emit is supposedly low.

However I am not willing to gamble my life on the bet that some person that I don’t know at the TSA has set the machine up correctly, that they haven’t malfunctioned since the last person went in, that they were calibrated and tested properly on that day etc.

At least if you go through a CAT scan in a hospital, supposedly trained workers operate those units and they are not used in such a heavy duty fashion.

I still can’t figure out why they did not just use the millimeter wave machines which would have been a lot safer, even if malfunction happened.

I don’t have any issues with nude photos or intrusive pat downs. They are just annoyances that I am willing to go through to catch the underwear bomber!

[enron_by_the_sea]

I would opt out of the ones that use X-rays. Yes I know that the radiation they emit is supposedly low.

However I am not willing to gamble my life on the bet that some person that I don’t know at the TSA has set the machine up correctly, that they haven’t malfunctioned since the last person went in, that they were calibrated and tested properly on that day etc.

At least if you go through a CAT scan in a hospital, supposedly trained workers operate those units and they are not used in such a heavy duty fashion.

I still can’t figure out why they did not just use the millimeter wave machines which would have been a lot safer, even if malfunction happened.

I don’t have any issues with nude photos or intrusive pat downs. They are just annoyances that I am willing to go through to catch the underwear bomber!

[enron_by_the_sea]

I would opt out of the ones that use X-rays. Yes I know that the radiation they emit is supposedly low.

However I am not willing to gamble my life on the bet that some person that I don’t know at the TSA has set the machine up correctly, that they haven’t malfunctioned since the last person went in, that they were calibrated and tested properly on that day etc.

At least if you go through a CAT scan in a hospital, supposedly trained workers operate those units and they are not used in such a heavy duty fashion.

I still can’t figure out why they did not just use the millimeter wave machines which would have been a lot safer, even if malfunction happened.

I don’t have any issues with nude photos or intrusive pat downs. They are just annoyances that I am willing to go through to catch the underwear bomber!

[enron_by_the_sea]

I would opt out of the ones that use X-rays. Yes I know that the radiation they emit is supposedly low.

However I am not willing to gamble my life on the bet that some person that I don’t know at the TSA has set the machine up correctly, that they haven’t malfunctioned since the last person went in, that they were calibrated and tested properly on that day etc.

At least if you go through a CAT scan in a hospital, supposedly trained workers operate those units and they are not used in such a heavy duty fashion.

I still can’t figure out why they did not just use the millimeter wave machines which would have been a lot safer, even if malfunction happened.

I don’t have any issues with nude photos or intrusive pat downs. They are just annoyances that I am willing to go through to catch the underwear bomber!

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Wow!!!

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Some promising news that pension reform at the state level seems to be already happening.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12102796&tqkw=&tqshow=

Largest Calif. Employee Union OKs Pension Changes

Members of California’s largest state employee union approved a contract Tuesday that cuts pay by nearly 5 percent for 95,000 government workers and rolls back pension benefits, a move that will protect them from more sweeping government furloughs.

About three-quarters of those who voted ratified the Service Employees International Union Local 1000 contract, after union leaders reached a tentative agreement last month with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The contract was approved in October by the Legislature as a provision in the state budget and is part of Schwarzenegger’s attempt to control pension costs across all of state government.

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon1026sg.html

According to the link above –

Current estimates place California’s unfunded pension debt at somewhere between $300 billion and $500 billion, depending on the predictions one uses of future stock market and investment performance. The good news is that Schwarzenegger did insist that some modest pension reforms be part of the budget deal. But at best, these reforms—requiring increased contributions from many existing public employees and slightly reduced benefits in the defined-benefit pension plans of new state workers, depending on final union negotiations—would shave off $100 billion over the next 30 years. Something more has to be done about pension promises to current workers. But despite Republican legislative pressure for a tougher deal, the budget includes only Schwarzenegger’s limited measures. And state contributions to the pension fund will be rising steeply in coming years, which will put further strain on an already precarious budget.
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So looks like $100Bn of the $400Bn problem might have been solved!

So is it true or just another smoke and mirrors?

[enron_by_the_sea]

Some promising news that pension reform at the state level seems to be already happening.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12102796&tqkw=&tqshow=

Largest Calif. Employee Union OKs Pension Changes

Members of California’s largest state employee union approved a contract Tuesday that cuts pay by nearly 5 percent for 95,000 government workers and rolls back pension benefits, a move that will protect them from more sweeping government furloughs.

About three-quarters of those who voted ratified the Service Employees International Union Local 1000 contract, after union leaders reached a tentative agreement last month with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The contract was approved in October by the Legislature as a provision in the state budget and is part of Schwarzenegger’s attempt to control pension costs across all of state government.

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon1026sg.html

According to the link above –

Current estimates place California’s unfunded pension debt at somewhere between $300 billion and $500 billion, depending on the predictions one uses of future stock market and investment performance. The good news is that Schwarzenegger did insist that some modest pension reforms be part of the budget deal. But at best, these reforms—requiring increased contributions from many existing public employees and slightly reduced benefits in the defined-benefit pension plans of new state workers, depending on final union negotiations—would shave off $100 billion over the next 30 years. Something more has to be done about pension promises to current workers. But despite Republican legislative pressure for a tougher deal, the budget includes only Schwarzenegger’s limited measures. And state contributions to the pension fund will be rising steeply in coming years, which will put further strain on an already precarious budget.
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So looks like $100Bn of the $400Bn problem might have been solved!

So is it true or just another smoke and mirrors?

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