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Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong is like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones.

NY Times columinist Thomas Friedman manages to sum up my feelings about America everytime I re-enter the country from somewhere else.

Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I’ve argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. The ugly, low-ceilinged arrival hall was cramped, and using a luggage cart cost $3. (Couldn’t we at least supply foreign visitors with a free luggage cart, like other major airports in the world?) As I looked around at this dingy room, it reminded of somewhere I had been before. Then I remembered: It was the luggage hall in the old Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport. It closed in 1998.

I just arrived back from Toronto a few days ago, so this article really struck home with me.

Read the full article here: Time to Reboot America

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26. Dec, 2008

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