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Old May 23, 2012 | 5:34 am
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Originally Posted by Spiff
Other than paying a lot more than $6, what's different now?
Longer, slower lines; more screener harassment of passengers; more screener threats directed at passengers; no demonstrable risk-adjusted return on money wasted on the TSA.

Sometimes people need to consider the following: "Beware the 'cure'/'treatment' worse than the disease.".

With airport "security", the "cure"/"treatment" (in the form of the TSA) is either the disease itself or the symptom of a serious disease.

TSA has plagued US airports and wants to spread its plague even beyond -- that too is not good.

Too bad the federal government and TSA-allied airlines are nowhere close to starving the TSA of funds.
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