Our tax dollars at work
Jan 17, 2011 | 8:43 am
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Our tax dollars at work
Yesterday morn. prior to the start of my shift I observed one the TSA bdo's pushing luggage carts & collecting quarters for each one returned. So much for him paying attention
& finding terrorists. Guess that's the result of low pay that they need to push these carts. Well like the title says our tax dollars at work.
Jan 17, 2011 | 8:49 am
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Yesterday morn. prior to the start of my shift I observed one the TSA bdo's pushing luggage carts & collecting quarters for each one returned. So much for him paying attention & finding terrorists. Guess that's the result of low pay that they need to push these carts. Well like the title says our tax dollars at work.
Jan 17, 2011 | 9:05 am
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Yesterday morn. prior to the start of my shift I observed one the TSA bdo's pushing luggage carts & collecting quarters for each one returned. So much for him paying attention & finding terrorists. Guess that's the result of low pay that they need to push these carts. Well like the title says our tax dollars at work.
Jan 17, 2011 | 9:27 am
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I've lost count of the number of checkpoints I've passed through in the past five years where one of the DSOs complained about their co-workers being late.
Jan 17, 2011 | 10:04 am
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C'mon-cut him/her a break......it was laundry time and y'all remember what mom said about crossing the street, right? 
Jan 17, 2011 | 11:37 am
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Yesterday morn. prior to the start of my shift I observed one the TSA bdo's pushing luggage carts & collecting quarters for each one returned. So much for him paying attention & finding terrorists. Guess that's the result of low pay that they need to push these carts. Well like the title says our tax dollars at work. 
Jan 17, 2011 | 11:55 am
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Hey- not nice!
Dumpster Diving is refined and dignified personal statement with regard to conservation, recycling and global warming concerns. Think local, not global. Seriously, upper crust folks who buy stationary made from elephant waste at the Airport Souvenir Store have no business looking down on those who fashion stylish weather vanes from discarded Budweiser cans.
For shame!
Jan 17, 2011 | 12:11 pm
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Cut him some slack and think of the children. Luggage carts are an emerging threat to aviation security. Every cart that is properly corraled is a cart that won't be bringing down an airplane.
Jan 17, 2011 | 12:30 pm
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I am thinking of the children! If he continues to cut into my kids' pin money, they'll start nagging me to buy them snacks at the airport.