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Friday, November 26, 2010

TSA - Who Benefits?

There's been a lot of backlash against TSA airport screening recently. The mainstream media is heavily pushing a pro-TSA propaganda campaign. On the Internet, a lot of people are starting to get offended.

There's one aspect of the story not commonly debated. It's the usual "Who benefits?"

The TSA screening is corporate welfare for the insiders who manufacture the backscatter scanner machines.

Also, the TSA workers are unionized government employees. That's corporate welfare for the union bureaucrats. That's corporate welfare for the people appointed to supervise the screeners. With an airport in every state, that's a lot of pork to spread around.

There's one huge perk for the TSA, in addition to restricting traveler's freedom. It's one huge corporate welfare and pork project.

2 comments:

Scott said...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has been financing a number of these sorts of police state measures and promoting them as jobs programs.

Henry Cate said...

Thank you for reporting on the TSA.

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