Ron sent me this.
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Makes perfect sense to me.
The TSA is one of the reasons I no longer like to fly. Here in Atlanta, Hartsfield-Corrupt Mayor Airport is contemplating replacing the TSA screeners because they are so slow and the lines are getting longer. What do you expect from gummint workers? Many of them are rude, especially the black workers. TSA management blames budget cuts. The last time I flew through Hartsfield-Corrupt Mayor Airport I noticed a lot of TSA workers standing around doing nothing. Of course. They are gummint workers. So, Atlanta is talking about privatizing the screening and kicking the TSA out, especially since summer is approaching. Hartsfield-Corrupt Mayor Airport is the busiest airport in the world. Atlanta wants it to be more efficient.
I remember Senator Tom Daschle, the Senate Majority Leader at that time, when the TSA was being set up and this quote about government screeners, “To professionalize, you must federalize.” Spoken like a true Dimocrat.
Of course it was George W. Bush who actually brought us the TSA as part of the Department of Homeland Security.
No one’s perfect, Rob.
However 9-11 gave him a little more of an excuse that doing nothing.
My theory of relativity is to mandate minimum pricing for all airlines flying into or out of U.S. Air space. Lowest economy for a round trip in country = $10,000. Wanna fly over seas? $25,000. That’d cut down the “put a trip on the credit card and worry about it later” riffraff and cut the TSA line wait way down.
You got that right, Rob.
Just toss this on the stack of Bush family corruption: http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary/item/3938-getting-rich-from-the-tsa-naked-body-scanners
Long history: http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/bush_family_and_the_s.htm
I know, I know…. “no one’s perfect.”
Fucking amazing.
And the Bush family has been bought and paid for by the Saudis. The two countries that should have been invaded after 9/11 were not Iraq and Afghanistan but Saudi Arabia and Iran. They are the two biggest state sponsors of Islamic terrorism.
At MSP in Minnesota they cut the check points down from 6 to 2 in order to increase efficiency and decrease the wait time. The lines for screening now stretch all the way across the airport and double back on themselves several times. It takes at least 2 hours to get through. The TSA reaction is to shrug their shoulders and say, it’s not our fault airline traffic is increased and we don’t have the budget to hire more workers. Meanwhile there is always some bozo who’s job it is to stand in line and greet everyone with a smile and a “how are you today?” I’d like to tell him to go f*** himself and get to work but then I’d be “randomly” selected for a strip search. I will do everything in my power to never fly again.
Someone commented, “this is what government run health care would look like.”
A number of years ago I flew back home to the Richmond, VA airport. I had to get my bag off of the baggage carousel, and went to pick up my car before the bag came off. Upon returning to the baggage area, I discovered my bag had arrived, and because I wasn’t there to pick it up, it had been removed. I checked with the agent, and he said: “Yes, we have to remove bags that don’t get picked up immediately because they might have a bomb in them.” I asked him where by bag was, and he directed me to the check-in counter in the main terminal of the airport. I went there, and sure ‘nuf… there was my bag, sitting there in the main terminal right in the middle of a bunch of people! Simply incredible!
My solution, instead of TSA, was to put a Ka-Bar next to every barfbag in the seatback pocket, ban carryons, and make everyone fly naked.
Archie Bunkers’ solution to hijacking was to “issue everybody a rod” when they got on an airplane.
One of the main reasons I will never fly anymore. Sat on a bench with both feet outstretched and bare while an agent, a pretty polite blond looked them over for a bomb, meanwhile not 25 feet away a Muslim family of five fully clothed head to foot, even the man was politely whisked away to their flight, no questions asked. Right then and there I vowed never to fly again. Done with their rude, incompetent, bullshit. The airlines can rot for all I care.
Think of me in a wheelchair getting groped every time I fly.
You have both my sympathy and my rage. This is the root of why I will never fly again. For you I am truly sorry. Its all bullshit and we all know it.
TSA = Thousands Standing Around
Its what gummint does best. Just think of the trouble when they do anything else.
Put a liquid explosive in a one litre bottle of Coke with a small timed detonator in the bottom. Let them confiscate it while you get on a plane making your gettaway.