[Poohbah]

The TSA hired more than 60,000 employees from the 1.5 million applicants for those jobs and covered 430 airports in one year's time.

And they've done a wonderfully inept job.

You're saying that there are an average of no more than 10,000 to 12,000 TSA employees available for screening work, at those 430 airports, at any given time?

Yup. The rest are paper-pushers.

You're also saying that those 60,000 plus TSA employees cost the U.S. Taxpayers $120,000 each per year?

Yes. Salary is but a small part of the total employment cost.

[4Freedom]

Nope. You said that out of 750,000 employees only 3% or 25,000 would be "on post" at any one time.

For the TSA that would mean only 2,000 screeners per shift covering 430 airports.

You're wrong.

Give us a real-life example using a real federal agency.

Your hypothetical numbers are baloney.

[Dane]

Yup. The rest are paper-pushers.

ala Daschle, pimping for the unions in his position as Senate Majority leader, at the time when this bill went through(late 2001, early 2002)