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Originally posted by island911
I've been thru TSA 6x in the last three months. So far so good. If TSA starts severly understaffing, then, yeah, theres a problem. . . and THAT is what the focus should be. Not this class warfare crap.
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Sometimes our security lines are pretty darned long. Perhaps you have been lucky.
Sometimes, in order to understand an issue better, I caricaturize it in my mind. I take it to an extreme and see if it still makes sense. If so, fine. If not, then the non-caricaturized real world example also does not make sense, but gets away with it because the difference is not so great. Let's caricaturize this. What if the TSA security screening system had a series of lines, one for folks who use less than $1,000 per year in airline services. And that is the mile-long line. Would it feel okay (Island, or anyone else wishing to comment) if your travelling was light, you rarely flew, and now you find yourself in the we-don't-care-about-you line because you have not used enough airline services to earn the right to the fast line? Again, this is not an airline line. This is a line created and staffed by your public agency. They cannot create a line for whites and a line for people of color. that would be discrimination based on skin color. Why can they create a short line for folks the airlines love more, and a separate (and much longer) line for folks who the airlines love less? Using your tax dollars. Fee dollars, I should say.
Oh, and Steve, one difficult but true answer to your question has to do with corporation versus citizen. Now, before you guys blow a fuse, listen up. In this society, things commercial simply outweigh things personal. Let me give you one interesting example. We all get telemarketers calling us at home. And none of us get them at work. Work time is sacred. Family time is not. First class passengers are on a commercial mission (usually)...time is money....no time to waste. We can waste less valuable time. Like personal time.