EUROPEAN TRAVEL
Changes flying in to one sorry airport
The article in the AJC about Delta re-routing some of its former non-stop flights to various destinations in Europe filled me with dismay (“Delta to cut back on nonstops to Europe”, Business, Oct. 9).
In my almost 60 years of international travel, I have never been through such an inconvenient, miserable airport as Charles de Gaulle. The only good thing about this ghastly place is that it does have great rail service into Paris, where (in that most civilized of cities) one can sit in a café, sip a cognac, and hope to forget the whole sorry airport experience.
ROBERT MCBATH, ATLANTA
VENEZUELA
Issues before voters sound awfully familiar
On the front page of a recent issue of the AJC, this appeared: “Huge turnout as a divided Venezuela votes” (News, Oct. 8).
The page also contained the following: “President Hugo Chavez’s crusade to transform Venezuela into a socialist state was put to the stiffest electoral test of his nearly 14 years in power on Sunday. Millions of voters turned out to cast a ballot in the closely fought presidential election, which has bitterly divided the nation.”
Does this sound familiar?
ROY CRITTENDEN, DUNWOODY
PBS FUNDING
Chicken Little writer should lay off Big Bird
Please, AJC: no more commentaries from Michelle Malkin. Her opinion piece on the funding of PBS amounted to nothing more than a venom-filled tirade that better resembled the ramblings of Chicken Little than an actual journalist (“Desperate Democrats hide behind Big Bird”, Opinion, Oct. 6).
Had she actually done her research, she would have found that government funding of PBS amounts to a small percentage of the federal budget, so Mitt Romney’s comment on balancing the budget by cutting this funding is nothing more than a lot of hot air. He and Michelle Malkin could feed every hungry person in America with their baloney.
What amazes me even more are the voters who believe this stuff.
MIKE LINDSEY, SNELLVILLE
JOBLESSNESS
Experience seemingly counts for little these days
I have been out of work since January, and it’s becoming apparent that we are wasting our greatest asset.
The value of experience and knowledge, coupled with the insight that comes from knowing how things interconnect, is being thrown out the window - to our great peril. I cannot find a job that can utilize my talents, the only coin I can bring to the table.
Since when do you turn down someone because they don’t have experience in a particular area? All things are interconnected. If you have a fundamental knowledge of history, you bring that insight to a team. I’ve been in sales all of my life, and have come to the realization that you don’t sell stuff. You sell yourself and build trust with your customer, Everything else comes along for the ride.
RICHARD VOORHIS, CUMMING
