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2008-03-06 Home Front: WoT

TSA fiasco: thousands of foreign flight students go untracked

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Posted by lotp 2008-03-06 10:35|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Consider:

A rapidly formed agency with a mandate to get up and running yesterday. While workers can be quickly hired, management will have to come from elsewhere in government.

Meaning every dirtball, every mercenary, every incompetent with no chance to get promoted at their current agency, and every opportunist is gonna seek to get hired or get transferred to the TSA.

I'd say "Thanks, Congress", and they do indeed deserve the blame for the TSA. But the feeding-trough's been set up at the state(e.g. New Jersey) and local levels as well.

Posted by Pappy 2008-03-06 13:10|| 2008-03-06 13:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I recall right -

1. Bush really didn't want TSA but caved to MSM and Donk manufactured pressure.

2. The Donks removed the part about no civil service protection from the original proposal.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-06 13:23|| 2008-03-06 13:23|| Front Page Top

#3 That's how I remember it, P2k.

Posted by lotp 2008-03-06 13:26|| 2008-03-06 13:26|| Front Page Top

#4 You don't professionalize unless you Federalize.

Posted by Tom Daschle 2008-03-06 13:32|| 2008-03-06 13:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Thats how I remember it too P2k. Bush didn't want the TSA to have civil protection (or Unions) but the democrats insisted that the Unions be involved - which means if you can last a year in a TSA job you essentially have tenure for life (as long as you pay your ~~kickbacks~~ union dues).

And it explains the TSA and the entire Homeland [In]Security department as a whole.

To err is human, to really f-k things up require a computer, but to achieve complete and total chaos and confusion you need a Government Agency.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-03-06 13:42|| 2008-03-06 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 As part of the first set of TSA guys hired ( after the mobile implementation force) i can tell you that there was no civil service protection, but no union stuff either. there is not tenure as stated; and the management came from the FAA mindset. workers were from all aspects of life, the average numbe of dirtballs, but most were dedicated individuals, and or former military.
management did not like the military mindset, but were hip deep in bureacracy.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-03-06 14:31|| 2008-03-06 14:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Crap government agency doing a crappy job and causing many not to travel to the US for vacations and business. Congress is killing our economy.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-03-06 19:21|| 2008-03-06 19:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Congress wanted to give the appearance of doing something.

But the US is too hobbled by PC to do anything effective, like profiling young Arab men. Therefore, we get to take our shoes off and watch grandma being strip-searched.

Posted by Kojo Cleasing6278 2008-03-06 20:53|| 2008-03-06 20:53|| Front Page Top

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