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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVice President Biden blasts La Guardia Airport as feeling like ‘it’s in some third world country’
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/vice-president-biden-blasts-la-guardia-airport-feeling-world-country-article-1.1604900http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1604899.1391720801!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/biden-infrastructure.jpg
If I blindfolded you and took you to LaGuardia Airport in New York, you must think, I must be in some third world country, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday.
Vice President Joe Biden, never one to hide what hes thinking, said Thursday that New Yorks LaGuardia Airport fees like its in some third world country.
If I blindfolded someone and took them at 2:00 in the morning into the airport in Hong Kong and said where do you think you are, theyd say, this must be America, its a modern airport, Biden said during a speech on infrastructure in Philadelphia.
Question: Why doesn't the link from NYDN show his pic ? I never can get the NYDN pics to show up.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)former9thward
(32,080 posts)Things broken everywhere. Worst airport in the U.S. by far and maybe in the world.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)been through there in a few years. Maybe it's better, but can't imagine a whole lot as that state has been mostly red for a while now.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)that no one (in power) ever wants to acknowledge!
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)When you are used to LGA, your reaction to going though any other airport is "Wow, this is a really nice airport!"
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'm just surprised to see him say "Third world"...
One more time, people...."Third world" as a descriptor has long been passé and out of date, not to mention borderline elitist...
There are "developed nations" and "developing nations"
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)A local blog wrote about this issue just today. http://gothamist.com/2014/02/06/dream_direct_rail_service_to_la_gua.php
brooklynite
(94,728 posts)...also Terminal "A" at Newark.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)When we go to New York we usually try to take the Delta Shuttle, which lands in the Marine terminal at Laguardia. Sure, it's old, but in a good way--1939 Art Deco. You're in and out of there in five minutes. It's a snap.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)The photograph link looks properly formatted for DU to display a photograph.