One good thing from going over the "cliff"
Dec 29, 2012, 5:47 am
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One good thing from going over the "cliff"
According to this article, if we go over the fiscal cliff:
They warn? Hell I'm all in for this!"
"...they warn, the TSA could lay off thousands of baggage screeners, which could force the agency to abandon full-body screening for hundreds of thousands of passengers at airports each day."
Dec 29, 2012, 7:14 am
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Wonder if Blogger Bob will get his walking papers seeing he has no useful purpose in life.
Dec 29, 2012, 8:02 am
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Do not get too excited, the President's budget includes an increase in airport security fees. So while they may get a general budget reduction - those who fly are apt to see the fees greatly increase.
Dec 29, 2012, 8:09 am
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That is not how I understand how the government works. They will do everything they can to increase the inconvenience of the travelers just so they can say "Call your congressman and senators. It is their fault you are standing in these long lines as they will not approve funding."
If there are any cuts, they will make sure we feel it.
If there are any cuts, they will make sure we feel it.
Dec 29, 2012, 8:46 am
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That is not how I understand how the government works. They will do everything they can to increase the inconvenience of the travelers just so they can say "Call your congressman and senators. It is their fault you are standing in these long lines as they will not approve funding."
If there are any cuts, they will make sure we feel it.
If there are any cuts, they will make sure we feel it.
"Don't like the long lines? Give us more funding" sounds like a feasible tactic .... but if it was likely to be used, I suspect we would have seen it already, rather than the opposite tactic which we have seen.
But, as Master Yoda said, "Always in motion is the future."
Dec 29, 2012, 2:20 pm
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Saving the country big bucks: elimination of the TSA and replacing them with private contractors who don't get to play with the strip search machines, who can't even patdown passengers unless something on the passenger alarms the WTMD, and who aren't allowed to interrogate passengers or play the ID/name/boarding pass check games.
Dec 30, 2012, 5:05 am
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This is not a government shutdown, it's a decrease in funding for the entire year. The government could easily keep spending at the current rate, assuming that congress will fix the problem before the reduced appropriation runs out.
These types of articles are scare tactics and nothing more.
These types of articles are scare tactics and nothing more.
Dec 30, 2012, 6:46 am
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This is not a government shutdown, it's a decrease in funding for the entire year. The government could easily keep spending at the current rate, assuming that congress will fix the problem before the reduced appropriation runs out.
These types of articles are scare tactics and nothing more.
These types of articles are scare tactics and nothing more.
I dont find anything scary about TSA potentially abandoning the full body scanners.
Dec 30, 2012, 9:35 am
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That is not how I understand how the government works. They will do everything they can to increase the inconvenience of the travelers just so they can say "Call your congressman and senators. It is their fault you are standing in these long lines as they will not approve funding."
If there are any cuts, they will make sure we feel it.
If there are any cuts, they will make sure we feel it.
Dec 31, 2012, 1:13 am
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Call your congressman and senators. It is their fault you are standing in these long lines as they will not approve funding.