***Dave Hill<p>I Am Old Enough To Remember ... when much of the security failure of 9/11 was blamed on the patchwork of incompetent privately-owned companies doing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AirportSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AirportSecurity</span></a> , where profit motive incented hiring the lowest-cost workers, rules were different from airport to airport, and nobody had responsibility or accountability.</p><p>Not that the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TSA</span></a> is not without fault, but the idea that if we just go with cut-rate rent-a-cops we can be safe *and* save money is truly laughable.</p><p><a href="https://www.al.com/politics/2025/03/tuberville-bill-would-eliminate-tsa-airport-security-agency-an-inefficient-bureaucratic-mess.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">al.com/politics/2025/03/tuberv</span><span class="invisible">ille-bill-would-eliminate-tsa-airport-security-agency-an-inefficient-bureaucratic-mess.html</span></a></p>