ICE agents get paychecks. TSA officers get food banks. Same department. Same shutdown. Different bank accounts. Congress chose who eats and who doesn't.
TSA was always “paid to stand three” (and look like they’re doing something useful).
It was mainly created as a last ditch effort to keep the airlines a float after 9/11. A lot of people might be too young to remember, but a large chunk of the population stopped flying out of fear after 9/11. So the government basically created the TSA out of thin air to keep the airlines privatized.
Now we’re just stuck paying for security theater and securing airline profit margins.
Even if this was the intention, which I would love a source for, that was never the practical effect. It was security theater from day zero and the only people who it made feel safer were the hyperxenophobic chuds who were yelling at anyone with vaguely brown skin in the weeks after 9/11.
Any attempt to whitewash the TSA is bullshit. All of DHS is government overreach.
I don’t know what kind of source you are asking for, I don’t have a quote of Bush admitting to conspiring with airline executives or anything. But it’s pretty clear why the security theater was created in the first place if you read between the lines of Studies like this.
It was security theater from day zero
It being used to bail out the airlines doesn’t preclude it from being security theater. The airlines going under was the reason the theater was needed in the first place.
only people who it made feel safer were the hyperxenophobic chuds who were yelling at anyone with vaguely brown skin in the weeks after 9/11
You mean 90% of American citizens?
Any attempt to whitewash the TSA is bullshit
I don’t see how Bush socializing the security cost for private corporations is being interpreted as white washing?
It was mainly created as a last ditch effort to keep the airlines a float after 9/11. A lot of people might be too young to remember, but a large chunk of the population stopped flying out of fear after 9/11. So the government basically created the TSA out of thin air to keep the airlines privatized.
Now we’re just stuck paying for security theater and securing airline profit margins.
Even if this was the intention, which I would love a source for, that was never the practical effect. It was security theater from day zero and the only people who it made feel safer were the hyperxenophobic chuds who were yelling at anyone with vaguely brown skin in the weeks after 9/11.
Any attempt to whitewash the TSA is bullshit. All of DHS is government overreach.
I don’t know what kind of source you are asking for, I don’t have a quote of Bush admitting to conspiring with airline executives or anything. But it’s pretty clear why the security theater was created in the first place if you read between the lines of Studies like this.
It being used to bail out the airlines doesn’t preclude it from being security theater. The airlines going under was the reason the theater was needed in the first place.
You mean 90% of American citizens?
I don’t see how Bush socializing the security cost for private corporations is being interpreted as white washing?