- The Daily Reckoning - Nepal - Firmian, 23.09.2003, 21:11
- Marc Faber: Wartezeit bei Einreise ein Gradmesser für US-Produktivität - kingsolomon, 23.09.2003, 22:41
Marc Faber: Wartezeit bei Einreise ein Gradmesser für US-Produktivität
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stehen in umgekehrt proportionalem Verhältnis, was sonst?! *gg*
>But then I remembered that, when I arrived in Chicago in
>late July, it took me more than two-and-a-half hours,
>waiting in line in a packed and totally disorganized
>arrivals hall, to pass through immigration. When I
>complained to an immigration officer about this deplorable
>state of affairs, I was told that the immigration
>department was understaffed because of the State of
>Illinois employee cutbacks and that all the immigration
>officers who were on duty that day were already doing
>overtime work. But not to worry, as in many other
>businesses, these cutbacks will show up in higher
>productivity figures in U.S. economic statistics and boost
>the stock market.
>But what about the consumer's productivity, who is forced
>to wait in line for two hours? His productivity is, of
>course, conveniently never measured.

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