{"id":15556,"date":"2010-11-21T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15556"},"modified":"2010-11-21T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T15:59:39","slug":"its-not-just-their-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15556","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not Just Their Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

…its that they are bloated and inefficient too, and surprisingly, at least for now, airports can tell them, the TSA, to leave.<\/p>\n

Federal law allows airports to opt for screeners<\/a> from the private sector instead. The push is being led by a powerful Florida congressman who’s a longtime critic of the Transportation Security Administration and counts among his campaign contributors some of the companies who might take the TSA’s place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it’s not just because of the national attention that their roaming hands are garnering on the news and on the web.<\/p>\n

“I think we could use half the personnel and streamline the system,” Mica said Wednesday, calling the TSA a bloated bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

the top executive at the Orlando-area’s second-largest airport, Orlando Sanford International Airport, said he plans to begin the process of switching to private screeners in January<\/p>\n

“I am a frequent air traveler and I have experienced … TSA agents who have let the power go to their head,” Erickson said. “You can complain about those people, but very rarely does the bureaucracy work quickly enough to remove those people from their positions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this yet another sector that could be performed better, faster, cheaper than by the government?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…its that they are bloated and inefficient too, and surprisingly, at least for now, airports can tell them, the TSA, to leave. Federal law allows airports to opt for screeners from the private sector instead. The push is being led by a powerful Florida congressman who’s a longtime critic of the Transportation Security Administration and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,104,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15556"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15642,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556\/revisions\/15642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}