<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DADISGARYK:
Today is different, as you say.
So they are screening my rollaboard, my computer bag, a tub with my computer, a tub with the shoes, a tub with my jacket and a tub with the cell phone.
Quite a project, don't you think?
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Multiply your experience by over 650 million (total number of passengers in USA this year) and no wonder the TSA needs 55,000 employees to do what the airlines did with less than half as many. All to constantly screen you, a nonterrorist. And while doing nothing to actually discover if you are, in fact, a terrorist. Almost two million people a day.
Mineta's (and now Loy's) infantile preoccupation with finding and confiscating sharp and pointy objects instead of finding terrorists is the real reason behind the long lines and millions of wasted hours. All in all, our great sharp and pointy object search costs society many billions of dollars per year on top of the TSA's multi-billion dollar budget.
And it has nothing to do with prevention of a September 11-type terrorist attack (or any other credible threat, for that matter).