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Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 06:36 AM

    Small Airports

    Re: "Amazingly, flights from this little airport are often cheaper than the mid-sized Wichita airport."

    The Federal Government runs a program that "maintains" air swervice to small airports. The subsidy runs about $400 per ticket. And that is BEFORE the cost of security.

    And those of us in cities have to endure how "we" are "living off the government".

    —Philadelphia Steve Read Philadelphia Steve's other letters

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