Showing posts with label Unemployment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unemployment. Show all posts

22 November 2010

Theatrical "Security" Administration FAIL!

The Terrorists are way ahead of the United States. If this were a sporting match of any sort the score would be as follows. Terrorists 1.5T, US nil. The TSA is WAY behind when it comes to twarting terror attacks in the United States. The purpose of the terrorists is to create, guess what? TERROR! as long as "we" live in fear, they win plain and simple. Until we can turn the tide and make them afraid of us, we will never win this war.

So, here's what I propose as a solution. Let the TSA focus on bagage and cargo. That is the real threat hear, not 12-year-old white boys. Next, get rid of all the extra stupid "security" screening of passengers trying to fly. It's not working and people are pissed.

Let's look at some simple math to solve this problem. (at the time of writing this I know that the government can't make it work because I said it was simple. FAIL!) There are 9.6% of Americans out of work right now. That's roughly 29M people. Let's assume that half of those are able to perform rigorus work, so 14M people. There are approx. 150,000 flights per day in the US. So there are plenty of people available for what I'm about to propose.

We take those 14M people and we give them some specalized training on how to take down terrorists on a plane. We arm them with the weapons they'll need to accomplish the task. Then we just let people fly fully advertising to the world and on every Safety briefing on every flight that if you plan on pulling off something funny the guy next to you could be a highly trained killer.

What does this accomplish? One, We can get people back to work. Two, People can truely feel safe knowing there could be as much as half of the people on the flight ready to protect them. Three, the terrorist can finally get a taste of their own medecine. Fourth, Citizens can fly around and work while looking for a job (interview in another state and such). Fifth, the public can finally have some confidence in knowing that their government is tryely striking at the terrorists and not just doing knee-jerk reactions to what's going on in their world.