Tired of Safety? Republicans push for abolishment of TSA

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edited to note: It does not matter if you are republican, democrat, independent. If you are over 30 years old, you know where you were on Sept 11, 2001.

In the September 11th attacks, a total of 2,977 people died, including those killed in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash site in Pennsylvania, not counting the 19 hijackers. Resulting from those attacks the federal government created the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) to prevent future hijacking and attacks.
While not perfect, it has been a phenomenal success. No other highjacking have occurred since its implementation.
This agency was initiated during a republican administration and supported by every administration since then until yesterday and the Trump / Doge administration.
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Republicans look to abolish TSA in favor of private security at airports

Sens. Mike Lee and Tommy Tuberville introduced a bill to abolish the current TSA and move toward privatization of security, specifically slamming violations of privacy and law.
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FIRST ON FOX: Republican senators are debuting a measure on Thursday to abolish the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which they say has "intruded into the privacy and personal space" of Americans.


"The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives. Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security Oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end. American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees," Lee told Fox News Digital in a statement.

The measure would officially abolish the TSA three years after being enacted into law, which the senators believe would provide time for security needs to be privatized.

The bill would also direct the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Transportation to make a reorganization plan and submit it to Congress.

In his own statement, Tuberville said, "The TSA is an inefficient, bureaucratic mess that infringes on Americans' freedoms.

Lee and Tuberville's bill comes as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to aggressively slash components of the administrative state within the executive branch."
 
Fine with me. TSA employees are no more skilled, capable or intelligent because they work for the government. The government just makes airport security more expensive.
 
McAdooSmackinYou said:
this will give predators a way to feel up women without having to work in a prison or the emerging concentration camp industry
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One of the most uncomfortable 10 minutes I ever spent was in a Church DoGood group meeting-about 10 of us. I was the only Male
The discussion was about wires in bras and how they had issues at TSA sceenings.......................
 
I suspect privatizing airport security will be more expensive than TSA. It will also mean a lack of standard procedures and hiring requirements. Much like private prisons it will be a clusterfuck. But most importantly it will provide a whole new industry which will make political contributions to protect their status. Privatizing government functions doesn't make them perform better or less expensively (see charter schools,) it just provides more opportunities for graft and corruption. But hey, eliminating fraud is their objective, right?
 
farce© said:
I suspect privatizing airport security will be more expensive than TSA. It will also mean a lack of standard procedures and hiring requirements. Much like private prisons it will be a clusterfuck. But most importantly it will provide a whole new industry which will make political contributions to protect their status. Privatizing government functions doesn't make them perform better or less expensively (see charter schools,) it just provides more opportunities for graft and corruption. But hey, eliminating fraud is their objective, right?
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Gov Perdue constantly pandered to consultants wanting to privatize IT for State Govt as well as privatizing Psych Hospitals...It almost happened
 
farce© said:
I suspect privatizing airport security will be more expensive than TSA. It will also mean a lack of standard procedures and hiring requirements. Much like private prisons it will be a clusterfuck. But most importantly it will provide a whole new industry which will make political contributions to protect their status. Privatizing government functions doesn't make them perform better or less expensively (see charter schools,) it just provides more opportunities for graft and corruption. But hey, eliminating fraud is their objective, right?
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Within the current model, TSA is funded by the feds and in a sense, independent of the respective airports. Irrespective of the advance or decrease in actual security, the republican dissolution of TSA will result in several competing firms offering security services. As being independent of the feds, it will likely not be funded by the feds. Instead it will be an add-on expense shouldered by the airports. This addition to the cost-of-doing business will be passed along and added to the rent charged to the various airlines.
The bottomline, the cost of flying will increase for the passenger under the republican plan.
 
Burgawnc said:
Within the current model, TSA is funded by the feds and in a sense, independent of the respective airports. Irrespective of the advance or decrease in actual security, the republican dissolution of TSA will result in several competing firms offering security services. As being independent of the feds, it will likely not be funded by the feds. Instead it will be an add-on expense shouldered by the airports. This addition to the cost-of-doing business will be passed along and added to the rent charged to the various airlines.
The bottomline, the cost of flying will increase for the passenger under the republican plan.
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And, the same bullshit “security” PROCESS will continue.

It won’t make us safe or safer; it will continue.
 
Burgawnc said:
Within the current model, TSA is funded by the feds and in a sense, independent of the respective airports. Irrespective of the advance or decrease in actual security, the republican dissolution of TSA will result in several competing firms offering security services. As being independent of the feds, it will likely not be funded by the feds. Instead it will be an add-on expense shouldered by the airports. This addition to the cost-of-doing business will be passed along and added to the rent charged to the various airlines.
The bottomline, the cost of flying will increase for the passenger under the republican plan.
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And consequently, some airports will be more secure than others, some will be more efficient than others, and passengers will never know what to expect when flying from unfamiliar airports.
 
farce© said:
I suspect privatizing airport security will be more expensive than TSA. It will also mean a lack of standard procedures and hiring requirements. Much like private prisons it will be a clusterfuck. But most importantly it will provide a whole new industry which will make political contributions to protect their status. Privatizing government functions doesn't make them perform better or less expensively (see charter schools,) it just provides more opportunities for graft and corruption. But hey, eliminating fraud is their objective, right?
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"Privatizing government functions"

The TSA was govermentizing of existing private functions.
 
Fortunately my Ignore is on ZEn and I did not have to read it...................
 
It's not hard to predict what will happen. The private firms will start cutting corners and it will build up until they are actually foisting lots of risk on the rest of us. Then there will be a catastrophic failure. It's always the same story. And no, businesses "thinking long-term" isn't a solution. Businesses are not capable of that, because there's always going to be a couple of short-term, get-rich-quick strivers who will set the industry standards (i.e. lower to compete on price). If Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers couldn't think long-term enough to avoid sudden insolvency, what makes anyone think a security contractor would do the same.

The private sector is good at providing services with a risk of failure, and so for situations were failure is acceptable, the private sector is fine. Google has created a lot of useful tech. They also created Google Glasses, a huge misfire. Eh, nobody died from Google Glasses. Not a problem.

But when failure isn't an option, the government needs to step in. Because the complaint about government made by libertarians -- lack of profit motive! -- is also what makes the government generally reliable. The government will not cut corners, unless idiots in Congress try to mandate it.

This isn't just applicable in the security context. Why does housing construction generally need to get approval from city inspectors? When I got a new furnace, I had to get the city's sign-off. Same with my solar panels. Why? Because there's no room for mistakes. It would be really bad if my ceiling crashed in on my head, or my house filled with carbon monoxide. There's no second chance for such things. You don't let the people who profit from shoddy work be the ones to inspect that work.
 
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