Originally Posted by Gynob001

Recently, I travelled a lot, over 30,000 miles in a couple of months. What I noticed was a glut of security personnel. In Atlanta airport several of them standing along the walls directing passengers to where the line is (needed? there are big signs posted everywhere), seveal inside telling passengers to join which line, several actually doing the checking, and several sitting on benches and on the raised podium. Similarly, in other airports many were wandering around, outwardly, doing nothing.
An article in this month of Delta Sky magazine points out to the taxes included in airticket and where most of them go. While I believe in security, are we using the money to, a) provide security. b) create jobs, c) make it appear that the tax dollars are well used, or d) wasting the money?
Interestingly, my bag and I were searched with a wand in a non-US airport and the officer left the wand in my bag! I had to run after him to give it back to him!