Originally Posted by
petaluma1
The internet has names for people who make claims and don't follow up with proof/citations after being asked to do so.
LOL. The idea that thousands of TSA workers were unaware they were deemed essential personnel is absurd. Give us a break with this nonsense.
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I seriously doubt that rank-and-file TSOs have any sort of clearance. They most likely go through a background check similar to the one I had to undergo when working on a military base s few years ago, but actual clearance? Highly unlikely, since handling classified information is not part of their job descriptions. Some of the upper management types probably have clearance, and maybe some of the middle management types, but I doubt that anyone in the screening force below the level of AFSD has a clearance at most airports.
I never claimed they had security clearance, but a TSA worker looking the other way for $5,000 can do a lot more damage than a rank-and-file bureaucrat with a security clearance who leaks a few files.
Living paycheck to paycheck doesn't qualify as having "money problems". I'd classify it more as "scraping by", but it doesn't become "money problems" until you've got obligations you can't meet - such as when your employer simply stops paying you what they owe you.
If you don't have any savings or even a credit card that can get you by one missed or bounced paycheck, you have money problems. I can't believe people keep arguing otherwise.