Posted on 03/17/2012 11:58:46 AM PDT by re_tail20
Orlando Sanford International Airport officials have restarted a push to hire private security forces, relying this time on a new law championed by U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park.
Replacing federal Transportation Security Administration workers with contract employees would result in a more "customer friendly" operation, airport president Larry Dale said at a Tuesday news conference.
But he could not say if a switch would result in lower costs because he has not seen any financial proposals from the three companies the airport has on a short list for the work.
Dale originally tried to boot TSA almost two years ago, but the agency rejected his request.
TSA will have a much harder time turning Sanford down this time because Mica inserted a line in a federal aviation law that took effect last month saying the agency "shall" consider opt-out requests from airports rather than "may," as the previous legislation said.
Mica, who wrote the law creating the TSA after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, contends the agency has become a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy with too many managers among its 67,000 employees.
"I want to get it [TSA] out of the human resources business and back to security," Mica said.
Right now, 17 airports have private security, including San Francisco, Kansas City and smaller airports such as Key West and Jackson Hole, Wy.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
EVERY TIME I have gone to Orlando, the TSA has left a lovenote in my luggage! WTH????
I like to play a game with myself: I listen to the conversations of the folks behind me and I try to determine if they're a regular airport worker (concessions, ticket counter, baggage handler, etc.) or a TSA.
Despite my considerable experience with the game, I've never been able to determine beyond the level of random chance.
If you went to Orlando, you probably did not use this airport. The main airport is Orlando International Airport. This airport is a much smaller airport in Sanford that has a similar name. The fact that they use a similar name has been a sore point with Orlando International Airport.
From the article:
“Mica, who wrote the law creating the TSA after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, contends the agency has become a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy with too many managers among its 67,000 employees.”
Well, DUH! Anybody who has half a brain can figure out this is the natural life cycle of a Federal agency.
From the article:
“Mica, who wrote the law creating the TSA after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, contends the agency has become a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy with too many managers among its 67,000 employees.”
Well, DUH! Anybody who has half a brain can figure out this is the natural life cycle of a Federal agency.
What does that tell you about Mica? Why doesn’t he just write up a bill to dissolve the TSA as a miserable experiment gone wrong and move to privatize all the airport security. Now he just wants to try to fix it. That never works. TSA will consider the request then say no.
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