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I don't know. Is there anyone who isn't a politician or employed by the TSA who thinks the TSA is doing a job worthy of their funding? Even though you have to
by crystalmeph 10y ago
I don't know. Is there anyone who isn't a politician or employed by the TSA who thinks the TSA is doing a job worthy of their funding?
Even though you have to take it as a fact that the status quo is a powerful force in politics, it seems like there is room for someone who wants to get elected on a populist platform to make this a banner issue.
- mikestew 10y agoIs there anyone who isn't a politician or employed by the TSA who thinks the TSA is doing a job worthy of their funding? Yes. By some counts that group would include the majority of Americans. Personally, I've heard the words, "it makes me feel safer" come out of the mouths of what appear to be otherwise competent adult humans.
- superuser2 10y agoNothing destroys a political career quite so violently as being the guy who relaxed some apparent safeguard just before a (potentially uncorrelated) bad thing happens that the safeguard was meant to prevent. This is why no one will back off the light pollution from Chicago's streetlights. If you're the alderman who made that street dimmer at night, and someone gets murderered there, your career is over forever.