Heard this morning on NPR comments from a federal union chief. He says that it will also be impossible to meet deadline on making sure that all screeners will be american citizens. First he said that it will not be possible because of the time it will take to hire and train people in general. Second in large cities such as San Fran, etc, they currently have 60+ percent green card employees. Finally he started on the attack by saying he saw no reason why they should be excluded from having that job anyway.

The next step has started on implimenting the great solution everyone was screaming for. It is appearing more and more like you are going to get the same people doing the same job for more money!!!! Hope you do feel better.

Now in response to atleast it is something. Most of the efforts that are being made could be implemented faster if we were not trying to set up a gov. bureau at the same time.

And in the answer to skylinks question. Openning bags is not an option that will work and have a system that functions. Think of the time it takes to open and check bags when going through customs. That check is actually looking for obvious things not then also trying to scan or open electronics etc. Not to mention that no airport I have been to is laid out to have the it done correctly. You would need lots of lines and tables set up prior to check in, but once your bag was inspected you would need to have the area immediately past that also secure. The bags would have to be sealed after that inspection as well. You would have to commit a large part of the national guard to even try to do this. Or you would need to completely change the hub system so that flights went out slowly and not in the morning and evening.

Again the answer is not to constantly check everything and everyone. Profile the bags like the people so that ones that need intense security get it not wasting time checking the 65 year old nuns bag.

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Robert