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I didn't read the sources in depth, but it looks like the TSA is bigger than the jobs it replaced: > TSA is a major part of DHS, having a workforce of about 62
by Domenic_S 10y ago
I didn't read the sources in depth, but it looks like the TSA is bigger than the jobs it replaced:
> TSA is a major part of DHS, having a workforce of about 62,000 people. TSA became a large organization very quickly after 2001, when it replaced 16,500 private airport screeners with more than 40,000 federal screeners.
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/homeland-security/tsa http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/homeland-security/tsa
- dragonwriter 10y agoSure, but the increased security requirements and the nationalization in the TSA were two different things that were done together; the former could have been done separately -- permanently increased security requirements were adopted after the hijacking sprees of the 1960s and 1970s, and again -- along with some additional temporary measures that were later lifted -- at the beginning of the 1990s justified by perceived threat from Iraq in the run-up to and during the 1991 Iraq War; those were politically likely to be done after a major successful terrorist attack in the US whether or not the functional was nationalized. And, as the ones which went previously, it would have created more security jobs. The nationalization of the function in the TSA, though, had nothing to do with jobs, and everything to do with liability.