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Missed items 95% of the time. Wow. How much money, time, and heartache have we all gone through? How much of a smudge on our national reputation as a free count
by DanielBMarkham 11y ago
Missed items 95% of the time. Wow. How much money, time, and heartache have we all gone through? How much of a smudge on our national reputation as a free country? And all for a 95% false negative rate?
Political systems of people exist for political reasons. So, of course, if the entire effort looks useless, it can't be that the effort itself is idiotic. Nope. The real crime here is that somebody made us look bad. In a political system, this is the ultimate crime.
So we fire the head honcho and bring in a new one. Cue up lots of speeches about how seriously we take all of this and how some new regime will make a huge difference over the last one.
The TSA needs to be abolished. Immediately. There are viable and reasonable replacement options. Even if you don't care about the money and prestige we've lost, we can't keep sinking money down a hole on security theater when the hole is endless.
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> Even if you don't care about the money and prestige we've lost, we can't keep sinking money down a hole on security theater when the hole is endless. Sure we can. It's a terrible idea, but our capacity to produce more value to sink into the hole is also endless.