[No Truce With Kings]

There are a lot of scared people out there who would have felt a lot better with federal employees (me included) and this just might sink in with them.

I fail to see why implementing ineffectual actions to placate Chicken Littles gets us anywhere but into debt.

Federalizing baggage handlers will make you feeeel better. So to make you feeeel better we need to enact a law that will (a) cost a bucketload of money; and (b) probably decrease the safety of air travel because Federal civil servants who cannot be fired, and have no incentive to do a good job are now checking luggage. (The essence of a Civil Service position is that you put in your 40 hours and you get your pay. You do not get rewarded for doing a superior job, nor do you get punished for doing a bad job.)

Tell me -- are you or your immediate family trying to get into civil service? That would be a rational reason that this would make you feel better. Otherwise it is do-nothing feel-good bilge, and your feeeeelings mean less than dog droppings.

[6ppc]

If private companies are contracted to do it, and proper standards are set, it will be cheaper and more efficient.

[jojonomo55]

Making people feel better about flying would get people back on airplanes. I am sure that you can figure out the benefit from that.