We put the government in charge. Nobody there with a performance motive, hell, you can't fire one no matter how bad they are.
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/business/airport-security-lines.html?_r=0][color=blue]Well Duh!? just figuring this out?[/color][/url]
TSA is lame
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TheGipper
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Re: TSA is lame
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At the same time, he said, the number of T.S.A. screeners has declined by about 5,800 because of tighter budgets.
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Notice the careful wording there. Not budget cuts, but "tighter" budgets. Once again the NY Times buries the real story.
There have been no budget cuts. But there was a slowdown in the increase of the TSA budget.* And so we all must be punished for not emptying our pockets fast enough for the bureaucracy's taste.
No doubt the Maureen Dowd piece blaming the long lines on Congress' reckless budget "slashing" and is already written and ready to go for tomorrow's edition. And maybe Paul Krugman can chime in about some phantom multiplier effect of all the additional highlighter pens the TSA could buy with a 40% budget increase.
* - In case you think there were actual TSA budget cuts (which many articles report), you can check page 5 of the DHS 2017 "Budget in Brief". Yes, the "Brief" version is 102 pages. TSA total budget has grown [i]every single year[/i] since it was created in 2001.
[url=https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY2017_BIB-MASTER.pdf]https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY2017_BIB-MASTER.pdf[/url]
At the same time, he said, the number of T.S.A. screeners has declined by about 5,800 because of tighter budgets.
[/quote]
Notice the careful wording there. Not budget cuts, but "tighter" budgets. Once again the NY Times buries the real story.
There have been no budget cuts. But there was a slowdown in the increase of the TSA budget.* And so we all must be punished for not emptying our pockets fast enough for the bureaucracy's taste.
No doubt the Maureen Dowd piece blaming the long lines on Congress' reckless budget "slashing" and is already written and ready to go for tomorrow's edition. And maybe Paul Krugman can chime in about some phantom multiplier effect of all the additional highlighter pens the TSA could buy with a 40% budget increase.
* - In case you think there were actual TSA budget cuts (which many articles report), you can check page 5 of the DHS 2017 "Budget in Brief". Yes, the "Brief" version is 102 pages. TSA total budget has grown [i]every single year[/i] since it was created in 2001.
[url=https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY2017_BIB-MASTER.pdf]https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY2017_BIB-MASTER.pdf[/url]