(01-18-2019, 09:16 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(01-18-2019, 01:55 AM)TJBender Wrote: Once people in the affected areas, particularly the TSA, start walking off the job entirely or finding other employment and leaving their positions, we'll see a very swift return to the table. One side will claim victory, the other will claim that they took one for the people who are unfairly held hostage by all of this, and they will keep fighting for XYZ.

Maybe TSA should be privatized and funded by the airlines they serve?

I don't think the TSA should've existed in the first place, nor do I think we should be spending billions of dollars on low-powered microwave ovens to see through people's clothes when there's all kinds of evidence out there that security is less effective today than it was on 9/10/2001. The microwave ovens wouldn't have detected the box cutters used on 9/11, and I think we've all seen firsthand the result of sourcing your high-security workforce off of Craigslist and advertisements on pizza boxes.

But I digress. The TSA never should have been founded to begin with. The only good they've done was provide me with loads of laughs and great stories from when I was but a wee businessman who constantly arrived at the airport early enough to screw with them for a few minutes (or, in Newark, 33 minutes) before getting on my way.

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