Originally Posted by
slopeboy40
It's not a big problem for the FAA at all. They have to cut $600million/yr. Business 101, to do that you cut payroll and close facilities. Smaller towers will be closed and larger towers will see manpower cut. TSA will drop a few officers from each airport (I know the smart-alecks will like that, but they're not going away, it'll just take longer now) and my guess is Pre-check will be a thing of the past. No problem at all for them. The problem is for us.
I could be wrong. As someone who flies every week, I hope I'm wrong. We'll find out soon enough.
I think you will be wrong.
Business 101 - you reduce discretionary spending and you suspend new hires. You increase productivity from existing employees and you shore up leakage.
TSA should have canned many of its useless employees long ago, without sequestration. Any employee involved in checking IDs, BPs, involved with the nudeoscopes, "chatting" up passengers per the voodoo, about-as-accurate-as-phrenology "behavior detection", sniffing shoes, sexually assaulting, or any of the other useless, unnecessary harassment introduced since the inception of this disease of an agency should be terminated.
By eliminating these bad actions, the screening process will speed up and be cheaper, while restoring civil liberties to passengers.
A far better solution would be 100% defunding/termination of TSA.