Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.
The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight. "This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday January 07 2019, @02:17PM (1 child)
Yes, it is broken. The more unavoidably obvious that is made to everyone, the greater the need to start again. In that process of starting again, we can look at everything in the American republic 1.0 and assess whether it's worth keeping, chucking, or modifying.
I, for one, would like to see the TSA chucked, and its parent organization, the Department of Homeland Security, repudiated (as a proponent of America's original moniker, "The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave," I find the mere act of typing "Homeland" extremely offensive and distasteful). I eschew flying almost entirely in favor of driving because I hate them that much.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @04:39PM
they wanted to use Dept of Faderland security but it did poorly in focus groups