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Originally posted by: billryan
Does air traffic increase during the summer? Do you really need a congressional investigation to look into it? On the one hand you want to cut wasteful spending but then you call for another wasteful investigation.
Doesn't the TSA know that air traffic increases in the summer? Shouldn't they have anticipated that? Can't they move people from airports that are less busy to the ones that are bottlenecked? Why can't they add part-timers during peak periods?
You know they charge security taxes on every airline ticket sold. You'd think that their revenue would automatically increase when more people are traveling....because Taxes on Every Airline Ticket Sold. Maybe it's time to outsource some if this...and get a little healthy competition for our Transportation Security.
Yes, remove people from a less crowded airport like Buffalo to the more crowded ones like Chicago. It might increase the person's commute, but check, it's work.
Okay, so then let's hire extra part timers. Great.By the time they are recruited back ground checked and trained, the summer will be half over.
Okay then. Let's outsource it. Who doesn't want to put their and their nations safety in the hands of the lowest bidder.
There are a hundred other airports in Illinois. I'd take TSA agents just standing around there and make them help eliminate the bottlenecks in Chicago. I can understand why the Federal Government would try to move them from Buffalo though.
Also, you don't want to hire part timers to eliminate the bottlenecks because 'the summer would be half over' before they were background checked and trained. You're probably right about that.....because it's the Federal Government doing the background checking and training. Doesn't that mean you think this problem will take half the summer to solve anyway....since you'll have the same problem with full time or part time employees?
What ever happened to our Can Do attitude?....Government Thinking....at its finest. We put a man on the moon for crying out loud. We can't figure out how to anticipate and plan for the security workload at a few airports?
That's why there should be competition for these functions. There is no reason the Federal Government needs to be a monopoly in providing Airport Security. If they can do it cheaper and better...then fine. But it's just not working out that way. That's why the 22 airports Don Diego pointed out have switched to Private Security. Perhaps you can explain why none of those airports are experiencing the same breakdowns as the ones with TSA security?
And as to the comment 'Who doesn't want to put their and their nations safety in the hands of the lowest bidder'....How about this question 'Who wants to spend a lot more money for the exact same job?". Not me.
