Another reason to be afraid

I maintain that Americans are scared of terrorism when there are more things to be frightened of that can actually hurt them: air pollution, medicine (Vioxx), water (too high arsenic allowances, medical system (46 million without health insurance, mercury in vacines,), environmental changes cosmetics (only one American cosmetic company meets the stringent safety EU standards), than marauding terrorists.

There’s a new fear. Flying. This is has nothing to do with Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying but the desire of the government (FAA) to cut the number of air controllers serving the nation’s airports by 10% and to make the remaining work longer hours. The recent accident in Kentucky has not stopped them, although the air controllers themselves have protested.