Originally Posted by
zkzkz
And immigration has what to do with security?
There seems to be a serious confusion in government about the purpose of security checks in airports. They seem to think more security checks are better and sprinkle them randomly about without any concept that they cost billions in lost economic output. Who is making these decisions? Why are they never questioned?
While I fully agree that superfluous security checks can be annoying, I cannot see how you can claim (let alone state with certainty) that they result in billions of "lost economic output".