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White House turns down Elon Musk’s offer to pay TSA workers during DHS shutdown
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Technically it's not a lack of funds it's a lack of appropriations.
So even if we taxed billionaires till there were no more billionaires, TSA can't get paid till Congress sets money aside to do so.
TSA is suffering because of their sister organization ICE. That said, TSA just needs to be abolished, things worked much better before they existed. Let the airports pay for their own x-ray operators and just skip the mandatory groping, metal detectors worked better anyway.
Has anything really even proven TSA has made flying safer? I've seen studies that show weapons and shit still get passed them on a regular basis. Meanwhile; Judy gets pulled aside and her luggage rummaged through and her 4 oz. bottle of lotion is confiscated, thank God I feel safe now!
I mean, literally all of DHS was created in 02...
So the logical thing would be to say just to get rid of DHS and revert to pre-9/11 measures.
But don't let facts get in the way of your opinions.
I'm not quite sure what the attitude is for, I don't disagree with anything you said. Whether it's all of DHS or just TSA, either way there's no point in it existing.
The point is...
People should at least know what the thing they're advocating to abolish actually is, or they're running off the same logic as trumpets.
And that train of thinking is dangerous for reasons that should be readily apparent.
Ignorance is dangerous, if people trying to help you upsets you, then you're gonna stay ignorant and be a danger to the rest of us...
I take your actual danger to everyone else as a bigger issue than you're feelings about how people should help you.
I don't understand what you're so upset about here. I'm well aware of what the DHS and TSA are, I'm older than both and remember how flying used to be before the TSA came in and screwed it all up. What makes you think I don't know what the TSA is?