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Apr 17, 2011 | 9:27 am

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Originally Posted by Global_Hi_Flyer

The problem is that we have a portion of the political class and about 50% of the electorate that believe in big government, and believe that commercial enterprises are evil. Until that changes we will have no reform of TSA.

Even if just that disposition toward commercial enterprises changed, nothing would change in terms of the TSA merely because of that. The TSA is wrong about a lot of things but it seems to have been correct in operating as if substantially more than 50% of the electorate are so apathetic, ignorant and/or paranoid that the TSA would have the cover it needs to stay substantively on the same course we've already seen it follow.

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