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I was actually taking more of an issue with your statement:

"50,000 high school dropout"

Although I take most information originally published in the NY Times with a grain of salt. The Times did not, in this case, say anything about 50,000 high school dropouts.
I believe you were using an article that said: 7000 screeners without high school diplomas were grandfathered in. 7,000 is a far cry from 50,000. And if you read Bias by Bernard Goldberg you will find that the NY Times likes to exaggerate numbers just to put forth their own agenda. Just like you did with the 50,000.

Also, from looking at the job requirements at different airports the ones I found required a High School Education.

However, I do agree with you on the cockpit door situation. A pilot from U.S. air told me that their doors are now secure. But, I believe you are correct in saying that the majority are not.

I was actually taking more of an issue with your statement:

"50,000 high school dropout"

Quibble to your totalitarian heart's content about semantics, but the airport screener position is a job that requires ZERO - I repeat, ZERO - brains or preparation. All that is required to be an airport screener is the TSA's 40 hour training course for new hires. That's it. Nothing more.

It is a make-work program for people who can't get real jobs. The only way airport screening could ever be truly effective is to strip-search every single passenger before boarding, and even that would not be 100% effective, but if they did start strip-searching passengers NO ONE would fly, except for people who enjoy body cavity searches.

I am doing my part to take the airport screeners' Fascist jobs from them by boycotting airports. I am not alone.