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Let’s turn that frown upside down at the TSA

The Acting Deputy Director of the TSA is now saying that they might have to ‘shut down’ smaller airports due to the high school educated (maybe) ‘agents’ (pretty glorified term for a bunch of folks looking into a scanner or glancing at IDs) calling out.

Bear in mind that last Friday was the first paycheck missed by these miscreants. So they’ve felt the pain for a total of four days.

The press is screaming about how 300 of them have quit. Out of an estimated 42,000 front line employees (by my math, that’s 0.71%).

I think I have a better way to deal with the problem. How about we just fire them? We’re spending billions on kabuki theater at our airports. Most of the time, the TSA is a jobs program anyway.

Bring in the private security companies and maybe, if the fired idiots can actually meet a standard, they can get re-hired. But I doubt many of them could.

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6 responses to “Let’s turn that frown upside down at the TSA”

  1. boneman1959 Avatar
    boneman1959

    Are you at all related to Ronald Wilson Reagan? 😉

    He took care of a similar situation in a similar manner.

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  2. Unferth Avatar
    Unferth

    And Reagan’s method worked. Why we would ever allow a union to blackmail the government is beyond me.

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  3. hvlee Avatar
    hvlee

    My limited experience certainly varies. Back in the 90’s when I was traveling some, I contrasted the agents in Kansas City who were friendly and helpful, and those in Palm Beach, the same, with those in Atlanta (my home town) who were fat and surly. Three different “cultural” groups.

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  4. Gerry Avatar
    Gerry

    TSA was just another .gov make work program.

    Did I feel safer because TSA was on duty?
    Never!

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  5. greg Avatar
    greg

    Easy fix, get rid of those that created the ‘need’ for TSA in the first place

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  6. Lokki Avatar
    Lokki

    The fundamental flaw with TSA is that it is deliberately designed to treat everyone with equal suspicion so as not to offend anyone. If the TSA were allowed to focus on suspicious behavior (yes you would need a better class of employees) the process could be streamlined and still be as effective as it is now. The obvious flaw with my idea is that the courts would have to allow profiling.

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