Our Boldest National Jobs Program
November 27, 2010 2 Comments
Via Megan McArdle, another example of our brave TSA in action:
My operating hypothesis: Although this is not publicy acknowledged, the TSA is, by design and construct, a jobs program for otherwise-functionally-useless people: primarily, stocky unpleasant middle-aged women and slow-witted, unskilled men.
Granted this is a bold and perhaps speculative hypothesis, but I have never encountered any evidence to the contrary. In particular the alternative hypothesis that scattering all these stocky unpleasant middle-aged women and slow-witted, unskilled men across all airports nationwide is going to protect us from something is certainly risible and ought to be rejected on its face.
During the Depression (cuz, you know, we’re in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, so it is comparable), roosevelt instituted a jobs program called the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, for short.
TVA
TSA
Eery, isn’t it?
What is the name of these TSA thugs. We need to expose these blue shirts by name on the web for all to see. We need their addresses posted. We need their facebook pages and e-mail addresses. Let then know that we all have them identified and what we think of their EVIL and UNAMERICAN actions.