What African Airports Taught Me about Obamacare

American Thinker ^ | March 20, 2017 | Mark A. Hewitt

[Kaslin]

In April 2008, I was in Monrovia, Liberia to determine if the company for which I was working wanted to take on the management of the airport, Roberts Field. After 15 years of civil war, the airport – a former PanAm station where 707s and 747s stopped for fuel and food prepared by French chefs before traveling to South Africa or the Middle East – was just returning to operation. As a Space Shuttle emergency landing strip, Roberts Field had the longest runway in Africa.

During a two-week site survey, the director general of civil aviation asked our team of former pilots, a business development director, and architects and engineers to sit in on a couple of presentations to rehabilitate the old terminal building. Other former government buildings in and around Monrovia were also shells, as destitute Liberians had stripped bombed buildings for whatever they could sell to scrap yards. The two-story structure had been gutted down to the concrete floors and columns during the war.

A Nigerian firm was first. The leader took one look at the six white people sitting around the conference table and challenged the director general's choice of evaluators. "African brothers should support African brothers!" The director general ignored the none too subtle and coded racist attack with "You can either give your presentation, or you can go."

My team won the work, developed a master plan for the airport, and hired a U.S.-trained airport manager, and within a year, Delta Airlines began service between Monrovia and New York City, one of the former PanAm routes

[Oatka]

Wise governments understand that if they want to make their nation (and eventually, themselves) wealthy they have to let their most talented citizens become wealthy, also.

Mozambique’s president Samora Machel, at the time of Zimbabwe’s independence, advised Mugabwe: “Keep your whites.”

He didn't listen.

[DoodleDawg]

In America, Obama led a racially driven insurance grab solely for redistribution to minorities and illegals.

What is the racial makeup of those getting Obamacare subsidies and expanded Medicaid? What percentage are black? What percentage are illegals?

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Namibia also benefits from a bountiful supply of fondue pots.

Yes, but do they have the little forks too?

I remember that one.

[semimojo]

Namibia also benefits from a bountiful supply of fondue pots.

Give...so others might dip.

[PLMerite]

“It took a fair mount of reading to reach the point where the writer related healthcare to airports... “

If you like your airline, you can keep your airline?