Comment by TrackerFF
2 days ago
I sometimes wonder, what is the collective money and manhours spent on airport security check around the world, since 9/11?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that there should be no security checks - but it has to be astronomical.
The TSA has a workforce of 65,000 people, it's an insane waste of collective time and energy. Meanwhile private planes don't even have to go through the TSA, presumably because big donors have actual political pull and the risk is laughably low. Too bad Elon didn't pick the TSA as a DOGE target, it would have been actually useful and wildly popular.
It could never possibly be justified. The only security measure which mattered after the 9/11 attacks was the introduction of locking cockpit doors.
it’s basically a jobs program…and a waste of most peoples time.