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Originally Posted by MRM
You want solutions? I'll cite to my favorite authority:
To which I would add:
4) Return airport security to pre-9/11 levels of scanning and a reasonable list of prohibited items limited to articles that could reasonably be used as dangerous weapons.
5) Specifically include knitting needles on the list of prohibited items in order to prevent any rogue granmothers from knitting an Afghan and taking the plane down.
6) Create a trusted traveler program that allowed frequent fliers or anyone who was able to pass a reasonable background check to pass security with minimal intrusion.
7) Focus the government's anti-hijacking efforts on intelligence and threat prevention.
There. I just solved the problem and saved the country $7 Billion. I'll take my comission check now and go home.
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Before you race out to the mailbox: Unfortunately, your solution isn't going to happen. It's not even remotely probable, as the lobby effort to maintain TSA, another enormous government employee tidal pool, (soon to have cvollective bargaining rights), would pull-out all stops. Not the least of which is a sitting President that lives and breathes union influence. It's his life-blood, his rapture eternal, and his hopefull ticket to 4 more years, along with the illegal vote, of course. Your solution is honorable, it's just not going to happen. It would be akin to solving the health problem in America by making health insurance illegal. Health care costs would immediately plummet, as guaranteed third-party renumeration ends. Health-care would once again be affordable, but there isn't a remote chance that this will happen either. The health insurance industry, as TSA, just allows far too many to dip their beaks for a long, long cool drink. Being reasonable and efficient has got nothing to do with solutions for either.