Maybe the video industry should do what the airline industry did, instead of adapting and changing to match up with the new competative environment, just run to the government for money.
So so true! But with Mrs. Daschle being the highest paid airline lobbyist in DC and husband Tommyboy being booted back to a state of big rocks, the airline industry just might have to tighten it's own belt this year. :-)
Here's how they can survive:
Blockbuster can announce that they are only going to carry movies that are Politically Correct. They can make a big deal out of banning films like the "homophobic" Dodgeball or the "fundamentalist" Passion of the Christ from their stores.
They can then highlight PC films such as Alexander, etc., and in addition can start carrying "educational" videos promoting abortion, homosexuality, atheism, naturalistic evolution, socialism, etc.
This will be the perfect model for getting governmental subsidies and grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, which should more than make up for the lack of actual customers.
Let's be clear about this.
Free people are the sole owner of their property.
Amendment V guarantees that right.
"...nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."
All mandated "security" procedures, by the federal government take private property from the airlines (money) for the public use of "security."
The airlines deserve to be "compensated" for those takings.
Just in case you have doubt that "money is property," I offer the following:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 98—963 JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISSOURI, et al., PETITIONERS v. SHRINK MISSOURI GOVERNMENT PAC et al. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT [January 24, 2000]
Justice Stevens,
"I make one simple point. Money is property;"