A shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security has gone into effect. That includes the Transportation Security Administration, whose officers are responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports.
“Working” is a stretch. They’re the Wal-Mart door greeters of air travel. If a TSA agent stands next to a janitor, they’ll briefly be useful-adjacent and that’s the closest they can get to providing a valuable service without violating the terms of their employment.
Shut down the TSA. Skip the extra steps and go straight to UBI.
Make-work. Republicans coined the term “make-work” for jobs created by government that have no apparent benefit or return on investment for society. ICE is another great example. There are three reasons Republicans create make-work programs. The first is of course to create a slush fund for contractors and former politicians and officials for the purpose of embezzlement and fraud. Guys like Michael Chertoff, for example. The second is to deprive the legitimate factions of government that are actually interested in maintaining vital programs or repairing the infrastructure in this country from the funds needed to do so. The third is to propagate the idea that the government can’t do anything for common people and when they do they fuck it up.
Last time I went through airport security the TSA took my cane from me and made me stand clutching the arm of a stranger while they xrayed me (or whatever that scan is). It was humiliating, and I’m lucky my knee didn’t give out during that ordeal.
On my first leg of the trip they gave me a wooden cane that was entirely too tall, but that was definitely better than not having one at all
“Working” is a stretch. They’re the Wal-Mart door greeters of air travel. If a TSA agent stands next to a janitor, they’ll briefly be useful-adjacent and that’s the closest they can get to providing a valuable service without violating the terms of their employment.
Shut down the TSA. Skip the extra steps and go straight to UBI.
Make-work. Republicans coined the term “make-work” for jobs created by government that have no apparent benefit or return on investment for society. ICE is another great example. There are three reasons Republicans create make-work programs. The first is of course to create a slush fund for contractors and former politicians and officials for the purpose of embezzlement and fraud. Guys like Michael Chertoff, for example. The second is to deprive the legitimate factions of government that are actually interested in maintaining vital programs or repairing the infrastructure in this country from the funds needed to do so. The third is to propagate the idea that the government can’t do anything for common people and when they do they fuck it up.
That’s pretty savage. I don’t know any Walmart greeters that routinely grope people.
Sometimes that’s the only reason I go.
Love ya Gram! 😘
“Welcome to Costco, I love you”
Some of the Costco greeters I know are… interesting… people.
Interesting in the “quite odd, but still pretty decent people.”
It’s the samples people I’m worried about. Especially if you go back for seconds.
Yeah, they made our guy stop.
Last time I went through airport security the TSA took my cane from me and made me stand clutching the arm of a stranger while they xrayed me (or whatever that scan is). It was humiliating, and I’m lucky my knee didn’t give out during that ordeal.
On my first leg of the trip they gave me a wooden cane that was entirely too tall, but that was definitely better than not having one at all
Omg they have loaner canes? That’s somehow less of a risk than your regular cane?
The loaner canes are wooden and known safe since TSA sourced them. Basic operational security
They scan the passenger’s cane and then return it