Originally Posted by
SFOSpiff
First of all, I wasn't previously aware that the funding for the majority of the scanners that are currently deployed came from the 2009 stimulus. I assumed it was some normal allocation of TSA's budget, but I'm even further disgusted to know that money that was intended to get America moving was spent to smack us down.
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I knew that it came from stimulus, and asked my representatives in Congress multiple times about the stimulus-spending angle last year, and not one responded to that part of the question.
How much decaying infrastructure could we have repaired with those tens of millions of dollars, providing jobs for low-income manual laborers who are otherwise completely screwed? It is disgusting on so many levels.