The other America
By Peter Burton I spent three interesting months in the US between April and the end of June this year. I was last there in 1992. Post 9/11 there are a lot more American flags around on houses, buses, trains etc. Airline workers have suffered in the fallout. One pilot I spoke to told me he had taken a $ 75,000 pay cut last year, the justification being less people travelling post 9/11. He told me “Retirement could not come quick enough for the older pilots”. In California, Big Arnie has united public sector workers in opposition to him and his policies. Lacking the guile of many other...