11-20-2010, 12:32 PM
The whole false --and very sudden-- outrage at the TSA outrages me. Refute this: The very same people that were in favor of security at all costs, including a loss of civil liberties-- backed the idea of the TSA for 9 years. Now that there is someone else in power and they want to continue their campaign against the government in general and against any form of government worker in particular, we get outrage. Their goal is to break up the TSA and privitize it. It isn't to make us safer or to protect our dignity.
This demonizing of TSA workers is appalling. One of my favorite Punawebbers, Lee, was with the TSA. And of our fellow Punawebbers, above, would like to work for them. You couldn't ask for a nicer person. And, with one tiny exception, I have always been treated very well at the Hilo airport. Examine the foundations for this new outrage before you echo it, and consider the jobs that the TSA provides locally -- good jobs, with benefits, and since November 10, 2010, the right to collective bargaining.
I am a left wing pinko, but until we change the foreign policy that makes us the target of terrorism, I want our airplanes to have the measure of safety that they have with a fully functioning TSA that is appreciated by other Americans. It was appreciated for 9 years. What's different? --The President and the fact that the TSA can unionize and now has collective bargaining rights. These people are single minded: privitize. Privitize the volcano viewing area (it's poorly run now), privatize prisons (a private Arizone prison is so cheaply made two murders snip their way out and then murder again), and now pritize the TSA, so we can have rent-a-monkeys who are paid bananas guarding our airplanes. The TSA provides good jobs both in Hilo and in Kailua. Support the TSA and quit the mockery.
This demonizing of TSA workers is appalling. One of my favorite Punawebbers, Lee, was with the TSA. And of our fellow Punawebbers, above, would like to work for them. You couldn't ask for a nicer person. And, with one tiny exception, I have always been treated very well at the Hilo airport. Examine the foundations for this new outrage before you echo it, and consider the jobs that the TSA provides locally -- good jobs, with benefits, and since November 10, 2010, the right to collective bargaining.
I am a left wing pinko, but until we change the foreign policy that makes us the target of terrorism, I want our airplanes to have the measure of safety that they have with a fully functioning TSA that is appreciated by other Americans. It was appreciated for 9 years. What's different? --The President and the fact that the TSA can unionize and now has collective bargaining rights. These people are single minded: privitize. Privitize the volcano viewing area (it's poorly run now), privatize prisons (a private Arizone prison is so cheaply made two murders snip their way out and then murder again), and now pritize the TSA, so we can have rent-a-monkeys who are paid bananas guarding our airplanes. The TSA provides good jobs both in Hilo and in Kailua. Support the TSA and quit the mockery.