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Did anyone catch the article about TSA in Time Magazine?
They spent over $7 billion a year and when tested, they failed to detect bombs and weapons 96% of the time. It seems like about once a month there is a story about someone getting on a plane with a loaded gun and those are he ones who self report. This is just a hazy illusion of security based on the inconvenience factor. We assume if they are making it this inconvenient for us, it must deter a bad guy. The agency itself is a boondoggle, worse than the typical government boondoggle. The hiring practices do not meet the federal standard, there is virtually no oversight on their spending and over a third of their spending is totally unregulated, not going through the normal appropriations process, using the "transactional loophole". In spite of all of this "gate" security, they found 73 people on the no fly list actually working on the planes they were not allowed to fly on and there is no screening at the employee entrance. All of this and we are spending time worrying about some kid and his 9 oz drone. No plane has ever hit one and the danger is pretty much undefined if they did. A bird strike, (or drone) taking out an engine will make you miss your connection but pilots are trained to fly on one and it happens far more often than you would like to think about. There were 11,000 bird strikes in 2013 and over 140,000 since 1990. 35% of those damaged an engine. One notable case, caused both engines to fail. Drone strikes? ZERO. |
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