Posted on 01/26/2019 10:33:12 AM PST by george76
Did you hear the one about the TSA agent who stole $50,000 worth of electronics equipment from travelers by slipping iPads down his pants? Or the Phoenix-based TSA security director who deliberately increased screening wait times in order to justify increasing his own staff count?
Or the TSA administrator who approved the practice of giving TSA trainees test answers in advance of their certification exams?
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The shutdown vividly demonstrates the need to fully privatize the Transportation Security Administration. Now there is the potential for a bipartisan consensus about doing just that.
With a budget of $7.8 billion, TSA is the fourth most expensive agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, even bigger than Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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TSA screeners have repeatedly failed tests carried out by its “red team” .. agents were able to sneak weapons and other banned items past screeners 95 percent of the time.
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The relative lack of improvement is not surprising, considering the TSA is essentially a self-regulating entity
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After 18 years of embarrassing mishaps, controversies, and arrests, this litany of errors would be comical if the agency wasn’t in charge of much of our national security. From TSA agents stealing, to showing up to work drunk, to sheer profligacy, it’s clear taxpayer funds can be better spent with better results.
Whether to run the TSA as a private security service isn’t a new debate by any means. It dates to the creation of the TSA. But the government shutdown provides the latest piece of evidence in a long litany of reasons why airport screeners should be returned to the private sector, where they will be better compensated, better trained, better motivated, and better managed.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The longer the government is shutdown just proves how much we don’t need most of them. I didn’t see people marching in the streets to bring back all of those poor government workers. I know I didn’t miss any of them.
But they are 100% effective in finding my too-large tube of toothpaste or nail clippers.
How many terrorists have they caught? Just get rid of them.
No, we need to eliminate the TSA.
eliminate the TSA
privatize air traffic controllers
Not just TSA but at least 30% of Federal government and assets.
This threat alone would get Dems to build the wall!
But they are 100% effective of the time finding my too-large tube of toothpaste or nail clippers.
How many terrorists have they caught? Just get rid of them.
You could cut 90% of all government employees and not miss a beat.
Airport security was privatized prior to 9/11. Airlines had to pay for the cost of security service. Funny though, those were the times when everyone could go through security and wait with friends/family at the gate. Government took over, limited who could go through and it’s still FUBAR.
When the TSA was first created private contractors were proposed
“You don’t professionalize until you federalize.”
-Tom Daschle
Agreed. Privatize the TSA.
JoMa
The question in my mind isn't whether to privatize TSA but, more importantly, whether to simply disband the whole concept...
Arm the pilots and the cabin stewards... A lot more efficient...
Federalizing the TSA was a bad idea from the start.
TSA and the ATCs.
Not only TSA. Any government job where people are hired for filling a quota and not for their qualifications. (”Qualifications” for baggage screener, crotch feeler and wand waver?)
Please encourage President Trump to declare a national emergency and build the wall.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Privatize TSA, air traffic controllers, and a bunch more. That gets rid of,the chunk the govt takes out for administration
Folks don’t remember Argenbright, do they...
There are numerous federal agencies that can be eliminated.Starting with the Dept. of Education.
The T.S.A. and F.A.A. could be privatised and not loose any efficiency at all.It will probably be more effective once they get out of the Federal governments control.
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