A shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security has gone into effect. That includes the Transportation Security Administration, whose officers are responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
I’m only saying that because that was the way it always was done pre-9/11