Zone1 Should Essential Services like TSA be privatized?

[Lisa558]

Because Democrats refuse to fund the TSA unless people can show up at polls without voter ID, Americans are waiting as long as 4 hours in TSA lines.

Should we remove the “leverage” (Dems have used that word) that Congress has to cause such havoc to Americans by privatizing these types of essential services?

DHS shutdown forces airports to tell travelers to arrive 4 hours early amid massive delays

The DHS shutdown is causing massive airport delays, with wait times reaching 3.5 hours at some major hubs. Officers work without pay as funding lapse continues.

www.foxnews.com

 

[MarcATL]

What will be the cost to consumers you stupid partisan idiot?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

What will be the cost to consumers you stupid partisan idiot?

The Government never makes anything cheaper. The TSA costs the US tax payer $8 billion to $11 billion every year. Idiot.

 

[JoeB131]

Because Democrats refuse to fund the TSA unless people can show up at polls without voter ID, Americans are waiting as long as 4 hours in TSA lines.

Should we remove the “leverage” (Dems have used that word) that Congress has to cause such havoc to Americans by privatizing these types of essential services?

DHS shutdown forces airports to tell travelers to arrive 4 hours early amid massive delays

The DHS shutdown is causing massive airport delays, with wait times reaching 3.5 hours at some major hubs. Officers work without pay as funding lapse continues.

www.foxnews.com

Um, the reason the TSA was Federalized was that the airlines went cheap, hired Minimum-Wage Mall Cops who just let Mohammed Atta and his crew walk onto the planes with box cutters.

 

[Lisa558]

What will be the cost to consumers you stupid partisan idiot?

It will be cheaper than paying government to do it, you stupid partisan idiot.

 

[Lisa558]

The Government never makes anything cheaper. The TSA costs the US tax payer $8 billion to $11 billion every year. Idiot.

Thanks. Your answer was better.

 

[JoeB131]

The Government never makes anything cheaper. The TSA costs the US tax payer $8 billion to $11 billion every year. Idiot.

Yet- wait for it - in the 22 years since the TSA was established, there hasn't been another incident of hijacking or terrorism on the airlines, has there?

The TSA is a bargain.

 

[JoeB131]

It will be cheaper than paying government to do it, you stupid partisan idiot.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The TSA exists because private security was inept. That's how 9/11 happened. They didn't have the equipment, nor the motivation to detect and stop terrorists.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What will be the cost to consumers you stupid partisan idiot?

Paid for by the airlines and plane fare

It’s easy enough to automate virtually all of it

 

[JoeB131]

Paid for by the airlines and plane fare

It’s easy enough to automate virtually all of it

Not really. If you automate it, some clever fellow will just find a way to beat it.

Now, some things that the TSA did were stupid, like making us all take off our shoes because one idiot lit his shoes on fire once.

They finally stopped doing that.

Of course, this isn't about the TSA at all.

It's about funding being cut off to DHS until the ICEstapo stops shooting citizens and kidnapping children.

 

[1srelluc]

The airlines and airports should have to pay them and pass the cost directly to the customers.....If you want to ride the cattle cars of the skies then pay-up.

 

[JoeB131]

The airlines and airports should have to pay them and pass the cost directly to the customers.....If you want to ride the cattle cars of the skies then pay-up.

Um, that's what's being done now. The problem is, DHS can't disburse that money until its budgets are approved.

Which they won't be until Trump agrees to rein in the iCEstapo.

 

[martybegan]

Yet- wait for it - in the 22 years since the TSA was established, there hasn't been another incident of hijacking or terrorism on the airlines, has there?

The TSA is a bargain.

They can take most of the credit for the lack of bombings, but hijacking is a dead method because at this point everyone on the plane will try to simply overwhelm the hijacker.

Back before 9/11 people on a hijacked plane knew that cooperation probably meant survival, that paradigm is gone now.

 

[1srelluc]

Um, that's what's being done now. The problem is, DHS can't disburse that money until its budgets are approved.

Then the taxpayer is getting screwed by the airports/airlines.

The TSA budget is 11.4 billion.

81 million people on average traveled from US airports each month in 2025.

The TSA charge the carrier/airports pay is $2.50 per passenger.

If the math is right 81 million X 12 X 2.50 US dollars = 2,430,000,000

 

[Zincwarrior]

Because Democrats refuse to fund the TSA unless people can show up at polls without voter ID, Americans are waiting as long as 4 hours in TSA lines.

Should we remove the “leverage” (Dems have used that word) that Congress has to cause such havoc to Americans by privatizing these types of essential services?

DHS shutdown forces airports to tell travelers to arrive 4 hours early amid massive delays

The DHS shutdown is causing massive airport delays, with wait times reaching 3.5 hours at some major hubs. Officers work without pay as funding lapse continues.

www.foxnews.com

Well private security worked out awesome on 9/11. Why not?

 

[debbiedowner]

20 Airports have private security rather than TSA and it works out well. Kansas City, San Francisco, etc.

These 20 airports don't use TSA screeners and are avoiding security delays

Travelers at airports like San Francisco, Orlando Sanford, and Kansas City have not faced security delays due to the partial government shutdown.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Dragonlady]

Because Democrats refuse to fund the TSA unless people can show up at polls without voter ID, Americans are waiting as long as 4 hours in TSA lines.

Should we remove the “leverage” (Dems have used that word) that Congress has to cause such havoc to Americans by privatizing these types of essential services?

DHS shutdown forces airports to tell travelers to arrive 4 hours early amid massive delays

The DHS shutdown is causing massive airport delays, with wait times reaching 3.5 hours at some major hubs. Officers work without pay as funding lapse continues.

www.foxnews.com

The TSA was funded in the record setting allocation of funds to the Homeland Security budget, but the Trump Administration has chosen to use the money to fund ICE, and is withholding pay for the TSA.

Privatization is always a failure when government services are involved. Privatization leads to lower wages for workers, and reductions in efficiency and services. TSA workers are not highly paid. Starting salary averages $35,000 per year.

So no, privatization is not the answer. Trump's long history of stiffing workers continues.

 

[Harry Dresden]

What will be the cost to consumers you stupid partisan idiot?

marc you are pretty partisan yourself....lol....

 

[evenflow1969]

Because Democrats refuse to fund the TSA unless people can show up at polls without voter ID, Americans are waiting as long as 4 hours in TSA lines.

Should we remove the “leverage” (Dems have used that word) that Congress has to cause such havoc to Americans by privatizing these types of essential services?

DHS shutdown forces airports to tell travelers to arrive 4 hours early amid massive delays

The DHS shutdown is causing massive airport delays, with wait times reaching 3.5 hours at some major hubs. Officers work without pay as funding lapse continues.

www.foxnews.com

Nope bad idea. Privatization turning point or excelleration was in 1979. Ya, look at the national debt graph trending up also 1979. So no. Bad idea.

 

[JoeB131]

Then the taxpayer is getting screwed by the airports/airlines.

The TSA budget is 11.4 billion.

81 million people on average traveled from US airports each month in 2025.

The TSA charge the carrier/airports pay is $2.50 per passenger.

If the math is right 81 million X 12 X 2.50 US dollars = 2,430,000,000

Um, not really. I don't fly very often, but my job is supported by sales people who do and generate revenues.

TSA is a bargain, compared to what a successful reprise of 9/11 would cost us.