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On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:30 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:52:21 -0500, Harry
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On 12/26/09 8:35 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:17:44 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
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TSA
Again Jon Stewart points out things the real news missed
Obama still hasn't filled the office of director of TSA.
Bush's TSA is a department of idiots. The best thing Obama could do is
restructure it, replace every bit of management, and retrain the entire
staff. Leaving SF for Chicago and then DC a couple of weeks ago, I ran
into a TSA'er who spent five minutes shining a blue flashlight onto my
state driver's license. She was looking in the wrong place for the
"invisible" part. So I said, "Want to examine one of my concealed carry
permits?" They all have my photo on them, too. I thought she was going
to loogy her pants.
It was the Democrats who demanded that we fire the private security
people and make them "fireproof" government dweebs.
You're in favor of Blackwater running the TSA?? I don't think so...
Blackwater is the group protecting Hillary right now so somebody likes
them.
There was still no reason why the actual screeners could not be
contracted and working under TSA guidance. The way it is, we own those
people forever, even if they came up with a lot less labor intensive
way to screen passengers. If anything, having 45,000 minimally
skilled employees, you can't fire, will stifle innovation. "Thinking"
was never a job requirement for this job.
If the contract were let based on technical ability and not low bid I'd
agree. Low bid is where these people came from when Washington "fixed" our
security by making them all federal employees.
As it is, TSA, our first line of defense, looks like a social program
staffed with jerkoffs that are as likely to steal out of your luggage than
screen for hazardous goods.