Perhaps you can have the person who first brought up the cost issue get busy with that. I see little difference in security now and before 9/11. I doubt that the costs are excessively different.
Your people don't want to come here because of TSA/CBP or do you really mean CBP? What they go through with TSA is more or less the same as what they go through at home, so how possibly could that be a deterrence to them visiting. You might have a valid point about CBP, but you really don't with the TSA.
Why would you be sorry that I hate traveling for work?
Sigh. I rest my case.
Why? For someone who likens himself as an intellectual, you really don't do a good job of getting your point across. Have fun with your protest and let me know when the boredom has become too much for you.