Originally Posted by
oenophilist
Are people suggesting that giving airline security over to private firms is the right approach? In my mind, this would be an unmitigated disaster that would set us back by a decade.
You haven't gone through security in SFO or MCI lately?
1) Government says we can't trust private contractors to do airport security
2) Government creates TSA so that we can have "high paid, federal workers" because we can trust them to do the job right
3) Billions of dollars spent to create, hire, train, etc. those "high paid, federal workers"
4) TSA goes out and contracts with private companies to provide security
5) TSA says its ok for them to use contractors because they will "supervise" them
Why couldn't we have just created an oversigt board/group/whatever to start with and saved billions of dollars?