If the parties drafted competent, trustworthy candidates who had the administrative skills to decide what can/cannot be outsourced we would have no debate.
If the Bozo who was president had listened to intel, maybe the TSA would not have to be so invasive. Also if people would not try to bring on things like guns and scissors and knives, the lines wouldn’t be so long.
What is needed is a “pay to go through” line. Fifty bucks gets you through in five minutes, twenty bucks insures ten minutes. The rest of us peasants have to wait two hours. If the airlines can do it, why not TSA?
Private or government. They draw from the same pool of eligible employees whether we’re talking management that makes the rules or foot soldiers who follow.
The biggest difference is that corporate services cost more so they can book their 10-20% profit margin. The government (theoretically a nonprofit operation) can operate at a break even level.
Come on Nick; real world consequences of GOP ideas are not “Fair Game”! I seem to recall some well aged Hippies cracking our privatized TVA (AEC?) Security for grins and giggles!
If they get in the terminal, your security has failed, old Mossad saying long before 9/11. The trick is that our “freedoms” from government intrusion don’t allow many of the tools Israel uses, and that is a result of both “conservative” and “liberal” viewpoints and legislators over many years. But yes, the Bush team did blow it big time on what was known, and TSA screenings were not the failures.
Worse was the lies that conned the Congress into voting for giving Bush the power to invade Iraq, even though he did NOT come back to them for final authorization for his action.
BigChrono: EVERY engineer said the temperature was too cold to launch Challenger, but Reagan’s political appointee overruled ’em all because Ronnie wanted to get the teacher into space. I spotted the failure the first time I saw the scene(brother worked on the shuttle as an engineer) and yet it took a long time for NASA to announce the cause that was so obvious, had to cover for Ron and his idiot appointee.
Or perhaps somebody could have been alarmed about teaching someone to fly who said he didn’t really need to learn how to land the plane….. US planes, US training, US education and still US allies. How stupid is that?
superposition almost 8 years ago
If the parties drafted competent, trustworthy candidates who had the administrative skills to decide what can/cannot be outsourced we would have no debate.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 8 years ago
If the Bozo who was president had listened to intel, maybe the TSA would not have to be so invasive. Also if people would not try to bring on things like guns and scissors and knives, the lines wouldn’t be so long.
habfan40 almost 8 years ago
hindsight is 20/20. if the government acted before the attacks by arresting suspects before the attacks the civil liberty people would of went nuts.
magicwalnut Premium Member almost 8 years ago
What is needed is a “pay to go through” line. Fifty bucks gets you through in five minutes, twenty bucks insures ten minutes. The rest of us peasants have to wait two hours. If the airlines can do it, why not TSA?
Happy Two Shoes almost 8 years ago
They Tried to Warn Us: Foreign Intelligence Warnings Before 9/11
http://www.historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essaytheytriedtowarnus
Mr. Blawt almost 8 years ago
It takes a Republican to privatize the government, it takes a Democrat to clean up the mess.
streetbeater almost 8 years ago
Private or government. They draw from the same pool of eligible employees whether we’re talking management that makes the rules or foot soldiers who follow.
The biggest difference is that corporate services cost more so they can book their 10-20% profit margin. The government (theoretically a nonprofit operation) can operate at a break even level.
1941gko almost 8 years ago
Come on Nick; real world consequences of GOP ideas are not “Fair Game”! I seem to recall some well aged Hippies cracking our privatized TVA (AEC?) Security for grins and giggles!
Dtroutma almost 8 years ago
If they get in the terminal, your security has failed, old Mossad saying long before 9/11. The trick is that our “freedoms” from government intrusion don’t allow many of the tools Israel uses, and that is a result of both “conservative” and “liberal” viewpoints and legislators over many years. But yes, the Bush team did blow it big time on what was known, and TSA screenings were not the failures.
Worse was the lies that conned the Congress into voting for giving Bush the power to invade Iraq, even though he did NOT come back to them for final authorization for his action.
Dtroutma almost 8 years ago
BigChrono: EVERY engineer said the temperature was too cold to launch Challenger, but Reagan’s political appointee overruled ’em all because Ronnie wanted to get the teacher into space. I spotted the failure the first time I saw the scene(brother worked on the shuttle as an engineer) and yet it took a long time for NASA to announce the cause that was so obvious, had to cover for Ron and his idiot appointee.
daddyvortex almost 8 years ago
With the TSA’s massive VA-like incompetence and corruption, it’s only a matter of time.
paul GROSS Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Airport security wasn’t the problem. Three different Federal agencies failed to do their jobs and the solution was to create another one???
lindz.coop Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Or perhaps somebody could have been alarmed about teaching someone to fly who said he didn’t really need to learn how to land the plane….. US planes, US training, US education and still US allies. How stupid is that?
Dtroutma almost 8 years ago
Paul Gross: W actually created 32 new agencies in forming Homeland Security! Right, he shrank government.