Originally Posted by TierFlyer
Yes, well, most arguments can be reduced to the "tiger prevention" analogy, but that may work in PHL210/Logic class, but in the real world, we understand the difference.
I think you missed my point. While the tiger prevention was a bit of sarcasm/bit of truth type thing, the rest of it was based on your statement that the chances of a Jew getting thrown off the plane were diddly squat. That's when I said that the incidents I cited also had the same diddly squat chances of happening yet we spend billions of dollars trying to combat them. Does that make it a waste of money then or the Jew getting booted of the plane any less significant?
I would strongly agree with all your statements above. Most of what we endure could be obviated by mandatory non-citizen deep screening and selective profiling.
It's good that we agree on something, even though we may differ on the methods.
I have a pretty low expectation of efficiency for most government operations,and the TSA seems to be about where I thought they'd be.
That was what scared me with the beginning of the TSA to begin with. Anything our government does is slow. Contractors can generally get stuff done a lot more quickly, but they typically cost more. Even contracts take forever to get signed though (and this is big cause of pain at my company as we do government contracting). In this case, I think if the government set the standards, contracted it out and then audited them to make sure they were meeting the standards with things like technology deployment, screener training, etc, I think we'd see things that need to happen quickly happen more quickly.
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