The TSA: Perception and Reality

[pokerfan]

An awesome Info Graphic on the cost vs. benefits of TSA Security process.



http://www.apenotmonkey.com/2012/04/03/the-tsa-perception-and-reality

[Scuba]

1. I like it, but am very skeptical that private security could do better for less...

... when virtually every other example of privitization means "worse for more".

[KG]

2. lost me on the 'privatizing' BS. nice ad for ron paul tho!

[gratuitous]

7. I think the Ron Paul reference was about something else

Which is, that he was able to raise a quarter million dollars in three days from his knuckle-headed cult followers because even they can see what an expensive farce the TSA is.

But privatize it? Make it even less accountable, and more motivated by profit? Holy shit, if you think it's bad now - and it is - it can be infinitely worse in Libertarian Hell.

[DFW]

3. This is my version of TSA reality:

"They say it's all for our security,
"Their motives have the utmost purity...."

[Zalatix]

5. Oh yeah? I bet I can out-funny that.

[DFW]

6. I've seen that one, too, and I loved it. One major difference, though:

I'll bet you didn't make the Japanese video

[Zalatix]

8. Bah, got me on that one!

[DFW]

10. A guy has to have a hobby, right?

"The Freedom Toast" is one of mine

[Heywood J]

4. Really? A Ron Paul ad?

[pokerfan]

12. I missed that when I first perused it

I saw $60 billion dollars and my head exploded.

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. TSA is, exactly as predicted, completely useless. Privatizing it would not make it magically

functional, but we do know from countless examples that it would become yet another corporate welfare program.

[JDPriestly]

11. It costs far too much.

We could spend our money more wisely.

How much progress could we have made on eliminating deaths like Trayvon Martin's with all the resources wasted on our paranoia about planes.

I wonder how much the widespread and very understandable fear of flying has to do with the whole obsession with security in our air traffic.

I should think you are more likely to die of the results of smoking than of a bomb or violence in the air.