>>Is it really that bad? Are there really queues at airports with humourless state security apparatchiks strip-searching computer-selected 8 year olds and grannies?<<
Yes, it is that bad. What's worse, we now have an entirely new security agency, the TSA, to complement the obviously inadequate existing alphabet security soup of the FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, NSA, Customs, Coast Guard and Secret Service, with airport security chiefs being hired at 6-figure salaries that are higher than the salary of the FAA Administrator, with a plan to hire 300,000 new federal employees, each of whom will be paid two or three times what they were making as private contractors and all will be eligible for a juicy inflation-adjusted government pension. (The TSA is for the most part hiring the old screeners, btw. In fact, you can be a veteran, a cop, have a Ph.D. in law enforcement, but if you don't have a year's experience as a screener, you can not get an interview with the TSA). |
