Agree. Trump won't even mention TSA and its abuses.
Posted on 08/03/2019 4:50:21 AM PDT by BigKahuna
According to a June 12, 2019 article in the Washington Post, Transportation Security Administration security screeners are "short-staffed, poorly paid and suffering meager morale." What's also worrying, is that the situation for TSA screeners (or "Transportation Security Officers," as they're officially known) is likely to worsen by next year. And unfortunately, the chronic short-staffing issue is nothing new to the government security agency, as 2006 news reports, as well as government inspector general findings, reveal. Indeed, air travel has increased so much since TSA's creation that it's overwhelmed the agency's ability to increase staffing in response
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Solutions do exist, though. For starters, former TSA administrator John Pistole writes in a July 15, 2019 opinion piece in the Washington Examiner that Congress should stop diverting money from the security fee already paid for by travelers.
Ostensibly, the "Sept. 11 Fee" is supposed to finance the cost of providing security for the nation's transportation system, and with record-high air travel for the last several years plenty of money from the fee has been collected. But, as the Policy Genius website notes, Congress has a lamentable history of diverting the money to fill budget gaps as well as to "pay down" the national debt. Pistole himself maintains Congress diverts up to one-third of the funds to other government programs or the debt.
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It has been proven time and again that pay raises are like throwing gas on a fire. It works for a few moments, but then it dies out. If there are “institutional problems” the money doesn’t make it suck any less.
“TSA is nothing more than a jobs program for minorities.
I agree: get rid of it and privatize it.”
I read something once from a right-leaning economic historian who remarked that Democrats for years looked at government jobs as a way to push minorities into at least the lower middle class. And there’s no doubt many minorities (I refuse to use Alexandria Donkey Chompers’s phrase “people of color”) look at a government job as something of an entitlement or the be-all/end-all to life. Again, another thing to be sad about...
Back in 2004, I wrote my senior thesis on airport security in the US. (former flight attendant here)
In some cities, there was a 100% failure rate on screening - just 3 yrs after 9/11. When they switched over and had certain requirements to keep their jobs, they had to change ‘college degree’ to ‘high school or GED’ then had to change that to ‘experience’ because they would have lost too many. I also had run across a forum designed for TSA employees gunning for disability - how to get it and keep it. That seemed to be the goal for the ones there - get disability for life.
Airport security needs to be privatized. Period. There is no accountability where government employees are concerned and if something - God forbid- happens, who would be held accountable? No one.
That’s not just for the TSA. I’ve seen that with other occupations too. The problem usually isn’t the pay, it’s the people. It’s likely a combination of bad bosses and bad employees working a job and not a career. Their hearts aren’t into it. If the job is not a good fit, they get bored, angry, miserable or a combination of things negative things. The good employees get crushed until they either quit or become one of the bad employees.
Pay for performance is you perform, you get rewarded with higher pay. It’s not we’ll give you higher pay now go preform better.
America’s deep- seated political-correctness pathology demands that giving Muslims, particularly men, the increased scrutiny they deserve ( indeed to even have them in the country), means that 90 year old nuns and children must be subject to strip searches. It means we all must be equally abused
Eff the TSA and all other moochers. They are already overpaid.
“...And everyone knows they’re not going to get rid of TSA...”
TSA was kicked out of my local airport (BZN) five or more years ago, BZN has a private contractor now.
They are actually fairly good.
Government BAD — private sector GOOD.
“....look at a government job as something of an entitlement or the be-all/end-all to life. Again, another thing to be sad about...”
They weren’t sad when they got the job. That happened when they realized they were being paid to do the same thing a janitor does for less money.
rwood
No. With a pay raise all you have is higher paid thugs and goons.
Airport Security needs to be military.
Period.
In Democrat-run cities, the problem lies with the definition of the "right people".
That's Congress' job - distributing the money (that it has already stolen or will steal from taxpayers) in whatever way it deems appropriate according to the exigencies of the election cycle
Our city put a 1/2 cent sales tax on the ballot last time. It was sold as a way to increase the police force, etc. Of course if you read it that’s not what it said. Anyway, the idiots voted for it. Next thing you know they had to put together a committee to decide how to spend it. All the idiots yelled....but it was supposed to go for more police! I swear most voters are the stupidest people I ever saw.
You couldn’t pay me enough to frisk unwilling children and frail grandmothers the way they do. I can’t even touch my wife that way without consent.
Half the TSA employees? They would be thrilled to grab a feel for free even if they weren’t paid. Money is not the source of their morale problem - it’s political correctness with orders to do their job badly by pretending that all people are of equal concern that wrecks morale among their decent workers.
Mainly, the tsa appears to be a make-work job for unemployables. Have they ever caught a terrorist? There apparent job description is to intimidate, molest and browbeat American Citizens into submission. What a joke.
Sure, just like burgers will taste much better when minimum wage goes to $15 an hour, and the government gets more efficient when we spend more money. We need to profile, period. The people who caused all this, we won’t search for fear of lawsuits. This ass hats serve not point. Reinforce all cockpit doors, arm stewardess, and always have a armed air Marshall onboard. Billions aves and less people molested.
Agree. Trump won't even mention TSA and its abuses.
Thanks, Bush. What a disaster he was.
“...And everyone knows they’re not going to get rid of TSA...”
“”TSA was kicked out of my local airport (BZN) five or more years ago, BZN has a private contractor now.
They are actually fairly good.
Government BAD — private sector GOOD.””
No argument about government versus private sector. There are only a few (a very few) things government is supposed to be doing, according to the Constitution (providing for the common defense is one, and seeing to the mails is another, funnily enough). So I’d be happier seeing much of everything the government does today put into the hands of the private sector — and look at how Spacex (which gets subsidies, no doubt, from NASA and government) has managed to bring Falcon Heavy to flight while NASA is still flailing with the way, way overdue (and vastly over budget) Space Launch System (SLS).
That said, private security companies can only make it into airports if TSA gives them permission to take over the duties (which are still overseen and regulated by TSA), so you have the fox guarding the henhouse when it comes to whether or not TSA is put out of business. Again, it’s sad.
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