Originally Posted by
thegeneral
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the TSA issues are really only cared about by a small number of very fundamentalist Flyertalk posters. Your average person on FlyerTalk really doesn't care that much about what most people complain about on here. People who post on FlyerTalk represent a very small sample of the traveling public who in turn represent a very small part of the voting public.
Kudos for reaching out to your Senator and being part of the democratic process, but good luck on getting a Senator to really care about this issue. Given that we're drowning in debt, unemployment and facing the worse economic conditions since the great depression, I highly doubt that you'll find a lot of political will to push in the Senate for the repeal of a minor regulation that is an issue for a small subset of a small subset of a small subset of a small subset of the population.
You might want to consider just letting go. The TSA rules have almost no bearing on either my work or personal travel. I'm not sure why it would be different for others.
You know, you really ought to do a Google search on articles written about the TSA in the media. Specifically, ones on-line that enable user comments.
Sure, some of them are right out of fourth grade. However, there is a large majority of them that share the disdain of the TSA, its "ideas" and its operation.
You make an excellent point about the horrible economic times. Have you ever given thought that the $6 billion spent annually on something the GAO has even said isn't any better than pre-9/11 might be better spent elsewhere?
Speaking of letting things go, if you are so quick to minimize what's said in here and the people who say it, then why do you repeatedly come in here with your sunny disposition? Why don't
you consider "letting it go?"