Thanks for the post, Castro.
I do have one issue:
I know that many of you have proposed that TSA be privatized. My personal experience with TSA has been uniformly better than working with the private company. The federal government does have its faults (and I am not afraid to speak about those faults), but I can tell you that every part of my experience of working with the private company was worse than compared to the federal government. The management was incompetent, my co-workers were of lower quality, as an organization we treated customers terribly, and we performed security inadequately.
The problem is, the very things you say about private security are the very things we say are wrong with TSA. I see generally incompetent management (especially at the senior levels), low quality workers, and TSA treats the general public terribly. I also think that overall, TSA doesn't provide security.
While the private security in the past may or may not have been adequate, I don't really see it as any different than what we have now. It just costs more. A lot more. It's become a lot more invasive too.
Some airports are already privatized. While they generally have to enforce TSA's rules, they seem to fare better in actual results and seem to have more accountability vs. TSA.
Super