"Fixing" the TSA

So typical: TSA is right and everyone else is wrong.

http://gsnmagazine.com/article/47398...t_organization

Some things become so broken that fixing is not an option. That's the situation TSA finds itself in.

With Rudy Giuliani possibly becoming the next Secretary of Homeland Security, what hope is there for TSA-reform?

That's the situation TSA has always been in.
The only way to fix the TSA is to get rid of it.

None.

Someplace I read that Arpaio was in line for the nomination.

I would be very surprised if Arpaio has a role in Trump's government. I'm even willing to bet an ice cold Coca-Cola that he won't.

He'd adapt quite well to PHX FSD.

Joe is 84, charged with criminal contempt of court by the feds, and has a host of other issues that will keep him from being a player. He'll be lucky to avoid jail.

Like I said, perfectly qualified to carry on the PHX FSD tradition.

An expectation that it would get worse. He was a fan of the TSA BDO nonsense and even last month was saying that we need more of that approach in the US and not just at airports.

I completely support the move to "fix" the TSA, as in "Next week I'm going to get the vet to fix my dog."

This time from US Travel Association:

https://www.ustravel.org/system/file...y_Airports.pdf

If I am not mistaken, these numbers are far below what TSA claims to be true:

Even with Precheck, the hassle of dealing with the TSA at US airports is incentive enough to question whether or not some trips are worth taking by air rather than by road or rail. I could just as easily fly as drive on some relatively short routes, but I may choose to drive just because it involves reduced variance in times. A 3-5 hour drive or a flight with 20-45 minutes in the air? Given the TSA screening checkpoint could take as little as 30 seconds to clear to as long as 30-60 minutes, planning for what the TSA experience may be like just acts as additional incentive to consider driving rather than flying. Even when the financial costs of flying are the same or lower than the cost of the road trip.

I do not like driving for long periods of time (>3 hours), but I have taken to driving unless there's bad weather. A minimum of an hour at the airport before departure, hands in my pants, and no assurance that I will transit the checkpoint without getting something confiscated - all for a 30 minute flight? Unless there's snow on the roads, driving is reliable and predictable. No hands in my pants, nothing will get confiscated, and I don't have to build wasted time into my itinerary like I do at the airport because security lines are (by design) unpredictable.

I would fly at least 8 more round trips a year, probably more, if it weren't for TSA. I know others, particularly older folks, who drive or take the train for the same reasons: unpredictable rules leading to confiscations of valuables, including meds, invasive physical gropes, unpredictable delays at the checkpoints, the constant rudeness, TSA theft and damage to luggage. Air travel used to be their first choice and they never envisioned spending their golden years driving and taking the train so much. but TSA changed their mind.

the person who can fix the TSA can fix this: