[Wally_Kalbacken]

Read the entire print piece. Tell me what the total annual budget for TSA is, from this article. How in the world do you write such a piece and leave out the annual expenditure total for all of TSA? How is that possible? Between outright misleading stories and falsehoods and this generally incompetent level of writing - people are correctly very upset with the present state of media.

[Blood of Tyrants]

passengers with connecting flights would be screened at the larger airports, which have more sophisticated security measures, before boarding the next flight.

More missed connection flights because screening takes 45 minutes and you have 30 minutes to catch your connecting flight.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Their budget is about $7 billion annually. $300 million represents less that a 5% cut.

[Zathras]

Hand the problem to 10 good engineers and they could automate the entire thing in a year for all USA airports.
Hand it over to the Gov and it will increase costs by 200M and you will have even more people standing around doing nothing.

[TADSLOS]

Just a shakedown document for more funding.

Legalized Extortion by the Patriot Act Security State.

[Gen.Blather]

Here’s the 2015 budget. Just gosh...

An Assessment of Planned 2015 Spending
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) provides security for the US transportation system with over 53,000 employees and a discretionary budget of over $7 billion. TSA applies screening technologies in conjunction with risk-based security principles to provide the most effective transportation security in the most efficient way. The enclosed research offers some details into the TSA 2015 budget request and where it plans to apply future spending.

[Darteaus94025]

Layoff 1/3 of the managers and supervisors

[bigdaddy45]

Good. Air Marshals are a total waste of money.