Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 00:05:17 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Don't Go Postal on Airport Security By JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
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<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000083377oct19.story>

COMMENTARY

Don't Go Postal on Airport Security By JOHN R. LOTT Jr.

John R. Lott Jr. is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise 
Institute and the author of "More Guns, Less Crime" (University of 
Chicago Press, 2000)

October 19 2001

If you had an important task in which speed and flexibility were 
vital, would it be better done by government or private employees?

The answer seems obvious. Government salaries are fixed, and firing 
them is virtually impossible. Government bureaucracies are not known 
for quick adjustments or innovations. Nowadays, even the U.S. Postal 
Service hires Federal Express to help deliver mail. In the post-Sept. 
11 debate, though, it seems taken for granted that the federal 
government should take over security at airports.

[...]

In their rush, senators re-created Western Europe's painful mistakes. 
Europe learned the hard way that some things are better run by the 
private sector. If these provisions in the Senate bill become law, 
the U.S. will be modeling its air security system after the post 
office.


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