I am not in favor of federalizing airport security in the sense most are thinking. I do believe that it should be a military operation. Those folks are accountable and certainly not overpaid. If we have confidence in what these people are doing to keep our a$$es free "over there", why can they not be trusted to protect those free a$$es from these knife-wielding kooks who are still getting past our privately-owned "security" folks.
Oh, and please don't give me the liberal babble about how these poor screeners are soooooo underpaid. Police officers are underpaid. Firefighters are underpaid. Military soldiers are underpaid. They're gettin' it done. The people running these lowest-bidder security operations -- and the airlines who engage them -- are not gettin' it done.
Hope that desert sun ain't too much for you, my friend.