Posted on 05/19/2016 12:37:26 PM PDT by KeyLargo
TSA's Union Power Grab: Thousands Slowing Down Airports
Michelle Malkin
All you travelers stuck in mile-long TSA security lines are pawns. Convenient political pawns. Big Labor bosses want more power and more money. Stranded travelers are just the latest victims in this age-old game of D.C. extortion.
Union leaders want you to think the fault lies with a stingy Congress unwilling to fork over enough money to fill screener shortages. White House spokesman Josh Earnest poured more partisan fuel on the fire last week by blaming the nationwide slowdowns on "the inability of Republicans in Congress to govern the country."
What a load of flying horse hockey.
The 15-year-old Transportation Security Administration now has a massive annual budget of nearly $7.6 billion and a workforce of nearly 60,000. They had enough tax dollars to waste on an idiotic $1.4 million iPad app that randomly points left or right; $3 million on more than 200 useless explosive detection "puffer" machines that didn't detect explosives reliably; and unknown gobs in awards and automatic bonuses to senior TSA managers at a time when the agency was repeatedly failing internal tests of its ability to stop weapons, bombs and terror threats.
Yet, last week, with airlines, airports and customers all raising holy hell, Congress scraped together $34 million more to pay TSA screeners overtime and fund nearly 800 more screeners to address the summer travel crush.
It's still not enough of course. It's never enough. Since last fall, the TSA workforce (unionized under the Obama administration) has staged protests at major airports (including Dallas-Fort Worth, JFK, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis?St. Paul and Atlanta) organized by the American Federation of Government Employees, which is demanding full collective bargaining rights under federal labor law, along with hefty pay increases.
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Yup.
A screener deliberately poked his finger into my belly and I almost hauled off at him, before that last flight.
I told my wife I could not trust my reactions any longer on these lines.
So I learned to love driving long distances.
I pack as much as I want, I go as far as I want, and I rest when I want.
Get to look at the scenery as well.
And your hand is on the flight control.
Thanks JFK, for NOTHING, for signing off on government unions.
There already is. One is Marquis Jet. That's part of NetJets (one of Warren Buffet's companies), but there are several other companies that offer a similar program.
The catch: it's expensive. It makes first-class airline seats appear to be a bargain.
Pilot might demand firearms be unloaded and locked yet one can load-up upon reaching the tarmac.
That's extremely likely. I owned a plane for a number of years, and I wouldn't let you on my plane without unloading. An accidental discharge can cause a lot of problems, even in an unpressurized plane.
My seat is fully adjustable and heated; I also have my own cup holder. ;)
And I bet no one limits you to 3.2 ounces.
My seat also has a/c. Very nice.
I can take as much friggin’ toothpaste as I want!
Or breast milk. :)
The TSA was a response to 9-11 and specifically the Airlines who wanted total immunity for any and all terrorist law suits.
The Airlines should be responsible for their own security and the TSA needs to be disbanded. They have never stopped any terrorism related activity.
W was right about not unionized TSA, but of course Obama did it ASAP.
Charlotte-Douglas is considering going private.
That will put a snit in their nickers.
TSA = Thousands Standing Around
G.W. Bush pushed along with the Democrats in creating this Frankenstein TSA monster.
GOP chairman: TSA was a ‘big mistake’
By Keith Laing - 03/18/15
House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should never have been created.
“I believe we made a big mistake in 2002 or 2003 when we set up the TSA,” he told reporters in a briefing at the Capitol.
“The Transportation committee... had experts from the British, the Germans, the Israelis all come testify before the committee and overwhelmingly they told us don’t set up a federal [agency].”
The TSA was set up by Congress in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The agency has become a lightning rod in the years since, a punching bag for Republicans who complain its workforce has grown too large and its security techniques invade passengers’ privacy. Republicans, though, controlled Congress when the TSA was created.
Shuster said Wednesday it would have better in hindsight if lawmakers left the job of securing the nation’s airports to private security companies.
“Have federal regulators looking, but allow the private sector to do the work,” he said.
The TSA has been moved into the Department of Homeland Security, so it now falls outside of the House Transportation Committee’s jurisdiction.
Shuster noted that it has taken other nations with federal agencies responsible for airport security decades to reduce their scope.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/236130-gop-rep-creating-tsa-was-a-mistake
Fire all these government “workers”. They are useless tyrants who have never caught a terrorist...only felt-up Citizens.
Goldfinger knew gold but nothing about gun play in a plane.
Typical union work slowdown. They want more dues paying employees on the government/taxpayer dole. More employees, more breaks, more power for the union.
During the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Shogunate deliberately allowed bridges to decay to discourage communication. I see some parallels here.
If the Federales can control travel and communication, they can control information.
They have only until Obama Leaves office. He is their ace
In the hole.
I travel a lot. International domestic. US airports ARE THE WORST IN THE WORLD!!! Absolutely the worst.
You are immediately dropped off in a massive warehouse of angry rude jerks and shuttled around like pigs to the slaughter. There are no other airports that have the cavernous warehouses with endless lines at immigration and customs. Then, after 3 security clearances after arrival through international you get to wait in yet another line to do it all again for the domestic leg.
Germany has their arrivals down to a science. You are off and out of the airport in 1/2 hour tops.
If any one ever lands first time in a USA international airport you will assume you landed in Mogadishu. Only Mogadishu runs their airport security better than ANY US airport.
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