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TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas
OverTheGeicoE writes "It looks like Congress' recent jabs at TSA were just posturing after all. Last Friday, President Obama signed a spending act passed by both houses of Congress. The act gives TSA a $7.85 billion budget increase for 2012 and includes funding for 12 additional multi-modal Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams and 140 new behavior detection officers. It even includes funding for 250 shiny new body scanners, which was originally cut from the funding bill last May."
...to welcome our new freeway groin-grabbing, tit-feeling overlords.
better yet, lets have it split into 50 sections then have a small union bound by a written document with very explicitly limited powers to keep them together and playing nice.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
So did Barak Obama...
Hey, don't criticize the War on Drugs! It recently turned 40 and is starting to develop a bald spot. Go easy on him OK?
We don't do torture, we just waterboard people. Those are two entirely different things.
MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
at $7.85B, that's $25.87 per person in the US per year.
On the other hand, a family of four might pay $180 per year for HBO, which makes about $45 per year per person.
So, really, Security Theater (tm) really is a better deal than HBO.
Check your premises.
Yes, God exists and is still alive. The bad news is He works for Goldman Sachs.