Posted on 12/20/2009 3:51:37 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- "Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit less furnished than a hotel room. He likes it that way.
Today he is where he feels at home, in an airport -- glass walls and glistening steel, synthetic sincerity and antiseptic hospitality. Today he is showing Natalie, a ferocious young colleague, how an expert road warrior deals with lines at security screening:
Avoid, he says, getting behind travelers with infants ("I've never seen a stroller collapse in less than 20 minutes"). Or behind elderly people ("Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left on earth"). Do get behind Asians: "They're light packers, treasure efficiency, and have a thing for slip-on shoes."
Natalie: "That's racist."
Bingham: "I stereotype. It's faster."
Played with seemingly effortless perfection by the preternaturally smooth George Clooney, Bingham is the cool porcelain heart of the movie "Up in the Air." It is a romantic comedy, although Bingham begins immune to romance and, after a brief and ill-advised lapse into feeling, ends the movie that way. And the comedy is about pain -- about administering it somewhat humanely to people who are losing their jobs.
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Homeland Security could learn a thing or two from him.
You said it
So: You get in line behind the Asian, who is behind the lady with the stroller, and the old guy with metal knees.
What real difference does it make unless you are lucky enough to be first in line.
Don’t go through screening in Atlanta. It takes forever and a day.
But the Asian would never get behind the lady with the stroller, and the old guy with metal knees.
You need to spot the line with the invisible sign, “Smart, efficient people only.”
You must remember this: In 2006, the last full year before this downturn, when the economy grew 2.7 percent and the unemployment rate was just 4.6 percent, 3.3 million people lost their jobs to the normal churning of a dynamic economy.
With the lies of the left we must occasionally check the facts against the lies. 3.3 million jobs a year is almost 300,000 a month. Now that is added to the increase as if it is an increase also and the demand to do something increases. Unfortunately, the things they want to do only increase unemployment, government control, and the national debt. They have basically created the increase but we can't let them use the normal results of a normal business cycle to spook us into another wrong move.
I think that is a good definition.
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