> my understanding is that the TSA have actually asked for additional funding to have more staff on the lines but Congress has denied this. This wouldn't help

> my understanding is that the TSA have actually asked for additional funding to have more staff on the lines but Congress has denied this. This wouldn't help my complaint, fwiw. My complaint isn't the lines.. i experience long lines all the time, i'm used to it. My problem is this feeling like suddenly, we're all criminals. We're cattle, on the verge of being violated, and all it will take is a sneeze or an awkward look.[1] To me, they are like "bad cops". You can meet a good cop and even if you did wrong (speeding ticket/etc), you feel comfortable and at ease (hopefully) around his/her professional attitude and behavior. The bad cops though, they just have this aura of unwarranted power, and you just hope they don't desire to spend some of it on you. That is TSA in the majority of cases to me. The line isn't the problem for me. [1]: edit, this isn't true of course, but it's how i feel.