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TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency
“It mushroomed into an army,” Mica said. “It’s gone from a couple-billion-dollar enterprise to close to $9 billion.” As for keeping the American public safe, Mica says, “They’ve failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years.” “Everything they have done has been reactive. They take shoes off because of [shoe-bomber] Richard Reid, passengers are patted down because of the diaper bomber, and you can’t pack liquids because the British uncovered a plot using liquids,” Mica said. “It’s an agency… (www.humanevents.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Ah ha, steel jaw is exposing his full fledged anti war stance. He feels we wasted our money and lives defeating the enemy on their own territory. We should have waited for them to show up at an airport security line to start the shooting war. How naive'. In the 7 years we fought the war on multiple fronts, the previous administration raised the debt by 4 billion. The idiot running the circus today has raised it 6 billion in two years, with the spending on war fronts deminishing.
Good job TSA. with all the pat downs and molestations of our kids, the bomb plots were stopped by passengers and flight attendents. All that stuff used to attempt to blow up aircraft got by those highly skilled gropers. By the TSA's own statements, they are failing to stop a high percentage of dangerous items. The perimeter is too big.
Conveyor belts. I know it may come as a complete surprise to Steeljaw, but conveyor belts have been around for a couple of hundred years. If reliablity had been a problem, we might have given up on them in 1883.
You don't want to automate the system, because it would reduce the payroll at TSA.
Good job TSA. with all the pat downs and molestations of our kids, the bomb plots were stopped by passengers and flight attendents. All that stuff used to attempt to blow up aircraft got by those highly skilled gropers. By the TSA's own statements, they are failing to stop a high percentage of dangerous items. The perimeter is too big.
Conveyor belts. I know it may come as a complete surprise to Steeljaw, but conveyor belts have been around for a couple of hundred years. If reliablity had been a problem, we might have given up on them in 1883.
You don't want to automate the system, because it would reduce the payroll at TSA.
Dear Richard, TSA IS NOT, I repeat, IS NOT on the same level pay scale as GS employess. As a matter of fact,TSA is a bit below the GS pay scale. (A conveyor belt to move plastic tubes.) How much does it cost per hour to run that conveyor belt? How much does it cost to fix it when it breaks down?Probably a whole lot more than than that one person to move the plastic bins. 16 Trillion dollars in debt? What do you expect fighting two(2)wars at the same time? Do you know how much it cost the United States a day to forward deploy the Army,Navy,Airfoce and Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq? Do the math? You said,"We're protecting too large of a perimeter." Hellooooo Richard, terroist don't want to just take over a plane, they also want to blow them up! Stopping the knives,guns and bombs from entering the plane is not too large a perimeter. Ask any survivor of 9/11? Ask any one who lost love ones on 9/11?
Tom Decoste, at this point we are are paying minimum wage workers GS level salaries, with government paid benefits, now with the right to unionize to do a job that could be done for far less tax dollars. In my small hometown airport parking lot, I counted 14 federal government cars with DHS license tags, all paid for by us. I counted a minimum of 7 workers per screening line. One of those federal employees does nothing but pick up the plastic tubs we put our belonging in and move them to the other end of the line. I was in Budapest last spring. They have devised a method of using a conveyor belt that does the job. This TSA gig is a jobs program that will not die without the public speaking up and making it die. Our country is 16 TRILLION dollars in debt. Yet we will not face the fact we can protect our airports for far less. We're protecting too large of a perimeter. With reinforced cockpit doors, armed pilots and a very agressive, angry traveling public, bad guys doesn't stand a chance of taking over an aircraft. But we still pat down disabled nuns and 6 year old kids looking for ... What.
Tom Decoste, you seem very concerned that Mica will enrich himself. That is an understandable concern. Yet you are not concerned about the billions it cost us to keep the TSA in operation. You can't have it both ways, Tom. I watched as the TSA put their employees up at airport Marriott hotels, at government rate(about $125.00 per night per person,) paid them per diem, plus salary, to attend classes in rented space at the same hotels, while our troops, heading in to combat, were relegated to the Super 8 across the street.
We are burning tax dollars, and as a bonus, we're mocking our constitution, with unreasonable search and seizure.
Tom Decoste, you seem very concerned that Mica will enrich himself. That is an understandable concern. Yet you are not concerned about the billions it cost us to keep the TSA in operation. You can't have it both ways, Tom. I watched as the TSA put their employees up at airport Marriott hotels, at government rate(about $125.00 per night per person,) paid them per diem, plus salary, to attend classes in rented space at the same hotels, while our troops, heading in to combat, were relegated to the Super 8 across the street.
We are burning tax dollars, and as a bonus, we're mocking our constitution, with unreasonable search and seizure.
i say close the entire thing down.
American people it is not unreasonable to ask a few simple questions:
If airports begin to secede will Mica stay in office?
Will Mica support legislation closing the golden revolving door between Homeland Security and private contractors?
Will Mica pledge that neither he, nor his staff or family members will personally profit by taking jobs with aviation security firms or their affiliates?
Does Mica support airports opting-out of the FAA?
Does Mica support secessionist airports losing all federal funding or is he simply fronting for private for-profit firms to receive federal funds without federal obligations?
The answers to these questions are a small price to pay to ensure that those safeguarding aviation are serving the interests of public security over the private financial security of those seeking to profit in the name of 9/11.
Remember also Mica is advocating the return of an army of minimum waged workers tasked with protecting the nations and the world's economy, not just planes. Because, what happens if something goes wrong? That's when all the lemmings screaming for small government are going to be asking where the big government was and how long will it take to get them back?
If airports begin to secede will Mica stay in office?
Will Mica support legislation closing the golden revolving door between Homeland Security and private contractors?
Will Mica pledge that neither he, nor his staff or family members will personally profit by taking jobs with aviation security firms or their affiliates?
Does Mica support airports opting-out of the FAA?
Does Mica support secessionist airports losing all federal funding or is he simply fronting for private for-profit firms to receive federal funds without federal obligations?
The answers to these questions are a small price to pay to ensure that those safeguarding aviation are serving the interests of public security over the private financial security of those seeking to profit in the name of 9/11.
Remember also Mica is advocating the return of an army of minimum waged workers tasked with protecting the nations and the world's economy, not just planes. Because, what happens if something goes wrong? That's when all the lemmings screaming for small government are going to be asking where the big government was and how long will it take to get them back?
How about going back and fixing the legislation and implementing some sensible procedures?
And how about spending some money on designing a sensible security process? As it is, the tables are not wide enough, and available space is taken up by stacks of bins. Often the empty bins stack up at the other end, and passengers are forced to scrounge around for them while the TSA people are asleep at the wheel.
They've had ten years to do this, and for the most part, it's still a system that was hacked together back then