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[–] 57 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

I hope it lasts a long time and they all quit and nobody wants to work there anymore and we have to rethink having so much airport security. Not like they do anything useful anyway.

I know I know, wishful thinking.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Before the TSA existed (pre-911) airport security was run and paid for by the airlines.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    And it was relatively pleasant. Walk through a metal detector, have your carry on x-rayed and you're good to go. Whole thing would only take a couple minutes once you made it to the front of the line and most of that was just waiting for the tray to go through the little x-ray conveyor belt. Even the people running the machines were relatively pleasant, not the surly assholes looking for an excuse to power trip on somebody that are all running things now.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The Trump regime hates federal workers. They also want them all to quit, but so they can privatize airport security, not rethink or reduce it.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    This is one of the things that should have stayed privatized. I disagree with pretty much any other privatizing of gov’t though. Just let the airlines hire their own security… It’s their damn planes in the first place, not the governments!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I think we're using "privatized" to mean different things. You're saying airlines should pay for their own security. That's a reasonable position.

    This administration would never let that happen. Privatization to them is about robbing the public trust. They would keep it a taxpayer funded program, but they'd triple the budget, halve the staff, and decimate the effectiveness. They don't care how dysfunctional or corrupt it is; it's about stealing from the public in every way they can.

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