<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sowalsky:
Just remember whom you are dealing with. These are morons who can't hold a better job; uneducated people who don't even need high school degrees, formerly employed by NotSoBright, and brainwashed by the fool named Mineta, the only person in the government administration dumber than Dubbya. It's no wonder there is no consistance let alone sanity.</font>
How about a few facts instead of just parroting the currently popular mantra?
1. 95% of the applicants for screening positions do not complete the hiring process. About 80% are deemed unqualified, for any number of reasons, with the remaining 15% not continuing through the process. Very few of the former contract employees are able to qualify for TSA employment.
2. Bush, and most of the Republicans, didn't want to use federal employees to staff the security checkpoints, they prefered private contractors who would be held to higher standards. In the final compromise bill the Administration and the Republicans gave in on the federalization of the screeners in order to get the Democrats to agree to other measures with which they objected.
3. Consistancy has been increased dramatically over the pre-TSA system. Perfect, it is not, but it's a vast improvement over what we had before, consistancy wise.