Keith,
The TSA idiots do not make minimum wage.
Part-time security salaries will depend upon a screener's work schedule.
Hourly wages can range from $11.30 to $16.96 depending upon
experience, plus locality pay depending upon the location of the
airport. For example, hourly wages for part-time screeners in New York
City can range from $13.21 - $19.82 a hour depending upon experience.
Part-time security screeners also are eligible for federal benefits
including health insurance, life insurance, retirement, paid annual
(vacation) and sick leave. The amount of the premium paid for both
health and life insurance and retirement as well as accrued annual
(vacation) and sick leave are based upon the work schedule.
Plus, the National Treasury Employees Union wants to get into the mix.
On 11/18/2010 11:52 AM, Keith In Tampa wrote:
Once again, Ann is right on the money...I have only one suggestion,
which I have been saying for at least five years:
Do you remember what the shoe bomber looked like when he got off of
the plane? The passengers beat the crap out of him, and he looked as
if he had been a victim of domestic violence abuse, from a mean assed
woman who was tired of ShoeBomber's ShoeBomber's antics!
Do you remember the underwear bomber, when he departed from the plane?
Once again, ditto, Americans, (and a Dane) beat the crap out of his
sorry, ass on fire ass!
The solution my friends, is quite simple! Do away with all of this
ridiculous, worthless TSA Department. I am not necessarily opposed
to a quick walk through of a metal detector, but as a frequent flyer,
I am tired of undressing and pulling my laptop out for minimum wage
workers who should be asking me, "Do You Want Fries With That?"
instead of exerting the little bit of authority that they have now
been allocated.
Arm every flyer with a baseball bat. Let a SOB try to ignite
himself, and/or make a run for the cockpit! One thing about us
Americans; we are a homogeneous, friendly, eclectic, yet right awry
group if we think we, or our loved ones are in danger.
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*Napolitano: The Ball's In My Court Now*
by Ann Coulter
Posted 11/17/2010 ET
Updated 11/17/2010 ET
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40058
After the 9/11 attacks, when 19 Muslim terrorists -- 15 from Saudi
Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates and one each from Egypt and
Lebanon, 14 with "al" in their names -- took over commercial aircraft
with box-cutters, the government banned sharp objects from planes.
Airport security began confiscating little old ladies' knitting
needles and breaking the mouse-sized nail files off of passengers'
nail clippers. Surprisingly, no decrease in the number of hijacking
attempts by little old ladies and manicurists was noted.
After another Muslim terrorist, Richard Reid, AKA Tariq Raja, AKA
Abdel Rahim, AKA Abdul Raheem, AKA Abu Ibrahim, AKA Sammy Cohen (which
was only his eHarmony alias), tried to blow up a commercial aircraft
with explosive-laden sneakers, the government prohibited more than 3
ounces of liquid from being carried on airplanes.
All passengers were required to take off their shoes for special
security screening, which did not thwart a single terrorist attack,
but made airport security checkpoints a lot smellier.
After Muslim terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria tried to
detonate explosive material in his underwear over Detroit last
Christmas, the government began requiring nude body scans at airports.
The machines, which cannot detect chemicals or plastic, would not have
caught the diaper bomber. So, again, no hijackers were stopped, but
being able to see passengers in the nude boosted the morale of airport
security personnel by 22 percent.
After explosives were inserted in two ink cartridges and placed on a
plane headed to the United States from the Muslim nation of Yemen, the
government banned printer cartridges from all domestic flights,
resulting in no improvement in airport security, while requiring ink
cartridges who traveled to take Amtrak.
So when the next Muslim terrorist, probably named Abdul Ahmed al
Shehri, places explosives in his anal cavity, what is the government
going to require then? (If you're looking for a good investment
opportunity, might I suggest rubber gloves?)
Last year, a Muslim attempting to murder Prince Mohammed bin Nayef of
Saudi Arabia blew himself up with a bomb stuck up his anus.
Fortunately, this didn't happen near an airport, or Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano would now be requiring full body cavity
searches to fly.
You can't stop a terrorist attack by searching for the explosives any
more than you can stop crime by taking away everyone's guns.
In the 1970s, liberal ideas on crime swept the country. Gun owners
were treated like criminals while actual criminals were coddled and
released. If only we treated criminals with dignity and respect and
showed them the system was fair, liberals told us, criminals would
reward us with good behavior.
As is now well known, crime exploded in the '70s. It took decades of
conservative law-and-order policies to get crime back to near-1950s
levels.
It's similarly pointless to treat all Americans as if they're
potential terrorists while trying to find and confiscate anything that
could be used as a weapon. We can't search all passengers for
explosives because Muslims stick explosives up their anuses. (Talk
about jobs Americans just won't do.)
You have to search for the terrorists.
Fortunately, that's the one advantage we have in this war. In a lucky
stroke, all the terrorists are swarthy, foreign-born, Muslim males.
(Think: "Guys Madonna would date.")
This would give us a major leg up -- if only the country weren't insane.
Is there any question that we'd be looking for Swedes if the 9/11
terrorists, the shoe bomber, the diaper bomber and the printer
cartridge bomber had all been Swedish? If the Irish Republican Army
were bombing our planes, wouldn't we be looking for people with Irish
surnames and an Irish appearance?
Only because the terrorists are Muslims do we pretend not to notice
who keeps trying to blow up our planes.
It would be harder to find Swedes or Irish boarding commercial
airliners in the U.S. than Muslims. Swarthy foreigners stand out like
a sore thumb in an airport. The American domestic flying population is
remarkably homogenous. An airport is not a Sears department store.
Only about a third of all Americans flew even once in the last year,
and only 7 percent took more than four round trips. The majority of
airline passengers are middle-aged, middle-class, white businessmen
with about a million frequent flier miles. I'd wager that more than 90
percent of domestic air travelers were born in the U.S.
If the government did nothing more than have a five-minute
conversation with the one passenger per flight born outside the U.S.,
you'd need 90 percent fewer Transportation Security Administration
agents and airlines would be far safer than they are now.
Instead, Napolitano just keeps ordering more invasive searches of all
passengers, without exception -- except members of Congress and
government officials, who get VIP treatment, so they never know what
she's doing to the rest of us.
Two weeks ago, Napolitano ordered TSA agents to start groping women's
breasts and all passengers' genitalia -- children, nuns and rape
victims, everyone except government officials and members of Congress.
(Which is weird because Dennis Kucinich would like it.)
"Please have your genitalia out and ready to be fondled when you
approach the security checkpoint."
This is the punishment for refusing the nude body scan for passengers
who don't want to appear nude on live video or are worried about the
skin cancer risk of the machines -- risks acknowledged by the very
Johns Hopkins study touted by the government.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that we need to keep the
government as far away from airport security as possible, and not only
because Janet Napolitano did her graduate work in North Korea.
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