“The security at airports has increased so the bad guys are now traveling on the trains and buses.”
And any time there is no TSA inspection of buses and trains, a terrorist could fly one into a high rise building!
No. Just no. The TSA airport inspections have demonstrated conclusively that there is no need for airport TSA inspections.
This being blindingly obvious, even to the TSA, the TSA is now desperate to find a reason, *any* reason, so they will not be first up on the chopping block when time comes to get control of the federal budget.
And they should be first up, followed by a whole bunch more of the ridiculously ineffective and intrusive government hyper-security espionage-police ‘apparat’.
Seriously, while we might need all 16 of the major federal intelligence agencies, they need to be looking at other countries, not us. Let the FBI, and just the FBI, look at us. That new spy complex in Utah? Shut that damn thing down. The government has zero reason to keep all emails, phone calls, Internet babble, etc. “just because they can.”
And likewise, the now 100+ federal police agencies, and the non-police agencies authorized to procure their own SWAT teams and tactical weaponry. The Department of Education DOES NOT NEED its own SWAT team, nor do dozens of other agencies. Have them send a requisition to the FBI or the Federal Marshal Service, if they need muscle.
I figure in the first year, roll about 80 of these federal police agencies into the FBI, if the FBI will take them, which is unlikely because FBI agents need to know accounting.
If not, they can work as federal prison guards, guarding all the former TSA agents who are now occupying the prisons because all they know how to do is molest people.
Be careful what you wish for. In 1934 the Treasury Department had to find something for all those “Revenooers” to do after prohibition ended. Since no government agency seems capable of simply firing excess employees, the ATF was created and look what it has morphed into.
If TSA had to be re-assigned, there’s no telling what we’d get. And remember those billions of hollow-point .40 cal? I doubt they’d simply be returned to the manufacturers. No, they’re intended for the taxpayers - one way or another.