"You can't professionalize unless you federalize." Never has a bigger myth been told to American people. If you want professional service, anybody but government will do.
Good customer service representative position comes from being given incentives. Federal government employees think they can't be 🔥 from the job. It's sick.
Well at least guy admits he fucked up with creating TSA. I respect people when they admit their mistakes. Good intent, but government is greedy! Hope the guy learned his lesson.
Term limits folks. He created the TSA and he keeps getting re-elected. I don't think he's learned from his mistakes, and apparently the people of FL haven't learned from theirs.
And it shows that the TSA is a wasteful, ineffective, and unresponsive to actual conditions or requests for co- operation. The agentcy should be phased out asap in favor of clearly better private security contractors. Oh, and they cost TEN TIMES LESS THAN THE TSA!!
Mostly I agree but all my dealings with the VA hospitals and dentist over the last 10 years have always been excellent and often better than my wife's dealings with normal hospitals and dentists. So some things can be handled correctly.
Nope, I have MS and been getting regular treatment for over 10 years now. I've been to 3 VA Hospitals around Texas and all were outstanding. The Dentists I've had are esp great and actually call and talk to me directly rather than just a secretary doing it. Getting prescriptions is way better than private because I can use myhealthvet online service which shows all my prescriptions and I just que them up to send to me or reup. Much better than waiting in lines or the time it takes for them to ready your prescription in a store.
@@Wolfsheim23 doesn't factor in how much regulation gets dumped on their competition (and how little exposure to competition there generally is, thanks to said regulation). Private sector while free market forces are kept away is just as bad if not worse (forced/allowed to be worse)
@@romancandlefight1144 I think Stossel did a piece years ago on 60 minutes similar to his Stupid in America excellent expose, called Sick in America. I think that's the best type of system over all. Ron Paul spoke about that too on his presidential platform when he ran.
They need our approval to take power And we need theirs to get it back And they have no reason to give it back, it’s just less money going through their hands.
I've been all over the world, and never dealt with any airport security as worthless and abusive as TSA. Mostly staffed by those who you would expect to see on a daytime TV show trying to find out who the daddy is.
So true. I instantly see this every time I return from Europe. In Germany I counted 7 personnel to include the cops with machine guns. In Denver I counted over 60 lazy asses sitting around groping people.
Crazy story: As a former professional pilot. I had a job delivering an aircraft to a class C airport in Iowa. As a ferry pilot (one who delivers aircraft) I alway take along a flight crew bag with headphone, stand by radio, hand held GPS systems. I also carried a small pocket knife in my bag. Upon delivering the aircraft I thought I could just hop on a commercial flight and go back home. Most of the TSA crew was standing around because this airport wasn't that busy. I noticed the knife in my bag and ask one of the TSA agents if I should turn it in and where. I was wearing a tee-shirt, shorts, and some walking shoes without socks. I won;t go into the whole story but it turned into a total nightmare. I was being honest, a white 50+-year-old male pilot with nothing to hide. Think it got better? No, I had to fly to Ohare, where I told the TSA agent I had the electronic devices in my bag and that they might want to hand search my bag. NO, they said to run it through the scanner, alarms went off. I was pulled from the line hand searched my bag scanned and all the item were pulled out of the bag and wiped for explosives. After two days I finally made it home. A trip which should have taken me one day turned into two days and a costly overnight stay in Chicago. I lost the money I made on the entire trip.
Airline pilots have told me stories about getting harassed when they take the butter knives from first class out of the plane and then try to get back on with them. "But there's a dozen more already on the airplane, and besides, I'm the captain!" "Too bad, you can't have a knife"
Similar story: My brother-in-law is an avid scuba diver. He was taking a flight and going through TSA, just before his bag was checked, he noticed a dive knife in the bottom of his duffle. He asked to leave the line, went to a gift store in the airport, bought a padded envelope, and mailed his knife home to himself. Six months later, he gets a $125 fine for having a knife in his bag. He didn't even try to take in on the plane. TSA is just a scam.
The TSA Drones are not paid to think. They have no clue as to the meanings of the words discernment, discrimination, differentiation. They just comply with their orders. Stand around and comply. That's it. They should not exist -- those jobs could be done by robots. The problem is that robots don't vote Democrat.
A friend started a second career as a TSA agent and he has drunk the kool-aid. He travelled extensively on business for decades and hated TSA with a passion. Now that he wears their badge, he believes that he and his coworkers are the only thing between us and terrorism. He also ask questions and most answers are "I can't talk about that." It's downright comical at times.
"Why would private screeners be nicer or better..." John Stossel is an American Hero. 30 years plus this dude is just amazing with his consistent pursuit of compelling truth. Trump should found an award system for the "Stossel Award in Honest Journalism."
I try to drive to avoid TSA... god I hate TSA, they are exactly what is wrong with America today. Your own citizens should not feel like criminals for using a private company for traveling.
Which politicians that voted the TSA take over airport security were muslims? Blaming the knee jerk reaction of the public and the sequential power grab of the government on the initial attackers doesn't make much sense. Its like blaming the driver who caused a car accident for the other guy going home and beating his wife in response to the accident. :)
Atomic Reverend Alexander Stay at least 100 miles away from any US exterior border when you drive, or the TSA's border brothers might criminalize your movements as well.
The goverment of a country that couldn't stop 19 fanatics from hijacking planes are trying to keep people safe, goodluck with that. I was flying to the Philippines twice last year I switched plane in Dubai the first time and switched plane in Singapore the 2nd time and neither of those times did have to put up with either strip search or have my bags searched.
According to what the TSA told me, all of their screeners are subcontracted to private companies. My issue: I watch a screener rifle through my pouch that held cash and passport. When he noticed i was watching him, he sent me back through the screening process so I could not watch. This was going from Cancun to Salt Lake City. I had packed in some flatware in my checked luggang. The flatware (Oneida) came up missing outof the checked bag and the pouch came up missing $$$. Do I trust them? Hell NO. I wrote to the TSA about this approx 2 months ago. and thus far, no action.
So you were getting searched in a foreign country, got money stolen, and blame it on the TSA? Interesting. I'm not a fan of the TSA either, but this is silly.
Too, Randall Nelson, see both comments, I don't know where the flatware came up missing...Cancun or Salt Lake. One does not get to view the checked baggage operation.
Having gone through the screeners at Atlanta Airport numerous times I have come to the conclusion that the majoritiy of the TSA agents are idiots, invasive of your privacy, and rude. They gave my Mother who has some dementia and memory issues, was 85 years old a very hard time. They were agressive and very threatening towards her, the tried to say she assulted them and she was so weak she had to take a wheel chair. Another time with my Mother, she got off the plane and the air lines failed to have person there for her as we had requested. I could not go look for her, Atlanta Police refused to look for her, Atlanta Airport staff refused to look for her, TSA siad they would not help. Several hours later a person who pushes around wheel chairs found her and I was very happy.
I live in the UK but frequently visit the USA and the airports with TSA are so bad it’s almost made me stop going to the USA altogether. The lines are ridiculous, they are rude and abusive and make you feel like criminals just for entering the country.
John, I have a question for you. What's the difference between a welfare recipient and a government bureaucrat? One of them shows up to a certain location maybe 40 hours a week.
Just gotta say, playing the requiem for a dream theme over your high profile card matching competition is one of the best ways to show the feds what's what.
I remember when I was a kid I could go into the cockpit (with permission of course) and talk to the Captain and sit in the Pilots seat. What treat. Good luck with that now a days!!
I flew round trip to Hawaii and went through 4 airports. Portland Oregon SF and Honolulu were great. Friendly TSA people. Courteous and quick. Didn’t steal anything and I didn’t feel like I had been molested afterwards. LAX on the other hand was terrible. They were mean and nasty to all the passengers. They made sure to hand search all of the little girls under 12 years old. They had twice as many people standing around doing nothing than people working. They were slow and they stole cash and electronics. Absolute worst airport and I will never fly through there ever again.
UPDATE: If you're wondering, Glacier Park International Airport was given permission to be in the TSA's SPP program for privatizing security. Not sure when this original video came out, but glad to see that more airports are opting out!
This is one of those highly intellectual designs by highly educated scholars in academia that know from their order of the highest ideas that it is the only way to operate ...... you know , like the same place Democratic Socialism will be run by highly intellectual academically superior sages of business .
I wouldn't have expected San Francisco to have such a great setup in favor of the free market. I went to Portugal last year, their airport security was managed by a private company Prosegur from Spain. The line was real short and the employees did their job perfectly, I accidentally brought a water bottle through and they caught it, but moved me along quickly. Meanwhile in the U.S. my Mom's so determined to play Mumbly Pegg on the beach that she brings a small knife on the plane. What's funny is that New York's TSA totally missed it while San Diego's caught it and thought she was a Federal Agent testing them.
Is anyone really surprised? When there is no accountably or incentive, then you have a Government Job.......no sense of urgency. Work is defined as clocking in for 40 hours a week.
Daway Legit they do do roads better though. In Utah in salt lake we have a company that. Does public transportation. They have trains, buses. They also maintain the roads they use. And the rails the use. I hear there going to expand there track system into north salt lake. There train already goes from salt lake city to some where in farmington.
Well we had free market airport security the first time and they were the ones who fucked up. This point he's making about the private security company in san fran isn't really truthful either, I've flown through san fran and they weren't any different than security in other major cities, they use the same kind of equipment, do the same stuff and are just as slow. Think they're more efficient, well read this abc7news.com/news/sfo-has-most-security-breaches-in-country-investigation-says/645045/ But yea let's just privatize everything, let's privatize the military and border patrol too while we're at it
I had a tiny used candy wrapper in my back pocket.. I couldn't even feel it. They treated me like a child, like a criminal. Complete fondling patdown. It's a power trip.
My biggest complaint about the TSA is that it's full of diversity hires who wouldn't otherwise be qualified to mop the goddamn floors at the airport. They might be good at sweeping floors but mopping is way above their level of competence.
I read an article a couple months back where a dumb TSA black woman that got fired. She thought it would be funny to give a passenger a note that said "You Ugly" . I seen the video of the incident, so it did happen.
At this time I supported creating the TSA because the minimum wage private screeners before 9/11 had virtually no authority and no benefits... Hindsight is 20/20... At the time it was a good idea to create the TSA... However now it has become unnecessary as we have evolved.... Also, under rule A-76 passed under the Eisenhower Administration, the government is not allowed to compete or to do a job that should be done by the private sector... It is time to follow that rule and privatize Airport Security.
JoesTheShow dude they literally said in the video the tsa costs 10 times as much as the private version before that. When you seek profit, you have to find ways to economize and keep business. Government doesn't have any reason to keep costs down and satisfy customers so they can charge anything. If it were privatized, ticket prices would go down because the tsa fee would be eliminated
I'm gonna have to disagree on the ticket prices. The 9/11 fee is only $5.60. I just don't see a private company making a profit on that. I think we could both agree that if the TSA was eliminated we woulndt see a break in our taxes. The government would just find something else to waste it on.
Jim Brent "At the time it was a good idea to create the TSA.." I recall a lot of people saying this was a very bad idea to create yet another government bureaucracy. I was and still am complete against it having had some experience with the VA I know how corrupt and incompetent these agencies can become. On 9/11 there was nothing the private screeners did that was wrong. As was later discovered there were plenty of failures within the government. FBI ignored reports of Arab men taking flying lessons with no interest in takeoffs or landings..
@@grondhero Yeah, which means there is a problem with consistency (that or the grandma thing raised such a fuss that they have to stop, which then opened the vulnerability. I have no idea what the timeline is) But the existence of the latter does mean the former is actually justified. So whereas you can certainly say that the latter is a failure, to criticize the former seems disingenuous.
@@justanoman6497 Not sure which former/latter you refer to (your post or mine). IIRC, TSA hasn't stopped one terrorist-type activity. All of those (such as the shoe bomber) have been stopped by passengers. And any "tests" done on the TSA have shown they've allowed like 90% of dangerous devices through. Having stated that, it's been a couple of years since the news has covered TSA, so _maybe_ that's a good sign (or maybe other distractions have been higher rated).
@@grondhero mine. In other words, if diapers can be used to hide bombs, then reasonable examination thereof is... well reasonable. Which is the point of my original post, that panning on that supposed "horror" story doesn't seem to make sense. Now, I hope there is better technology/methods for catching diaper bombs that aren't quite as invasive but, I don't know if there is.
I was TSA/DHS for almost 7 years. I can tell you that it was a fuster cluck from day one. The personalities in charge were far worse than the medieval despots of olad and wanted only one thing.......MORE POWER. Seriously, Mr. Stossel, if you want a follow up on this, I'll talk.
I travel all the time throughout the US and I have found (even though I have so many complaints about the SF Bay area) that the SF airport is definitely the best.
Another Ace from Stossel. Unlike other activities of the Federal Ogre, we all have experienced rude, slow-shuffling TSA agents. I have to wait in line at the screening area while two agents finish a private, apparently amusing story. TSA agents are petty losers whose only thrill is their power trip. Keeping them coming, John!
I have not been on an airplane since 1997 for a number of reasons and the TSA is just another reason that I will drive to where I want to go or I won't go at all if there is no other option than flying.
Hey Bill, have you checked out Stossell's piece on boarder patrols upwards of 100 miles away from the boarders? You better check that one out too! Power hungry freaks and horror stories of abuses upon U.S. Citizens. Driving is getting to be a hassle in many places as well. I encountered TSA back around 2004, taking a grey hound bus ride to Florida from Massachusetts. Ran into a cast if TSA jack asses at the Jacksonville grey h und station. What a bunch of absolute shit heads! Long story. But, they planted TSA, at that bus station because Jacksonville is a Navy city. Protecting military assests from non existent terrorists. How do we eliminate this useless disorganization!?I loathe the TSA. Won't fly.
Michael Chertoff wants incompetence so there can be more money earmarked for TSA. People need to feel that travel should be an ordeal and that they must be subjected to oppressive/repressive tactics.
Informative video Stossel, as always. I enjoyed it. Liked for you. Everyone I know knows someone who's had a terrible experience with TSA. I wish there was some kind of measure to vote for stuff like this on. Because I think the American people today would vote to privatize. Mainly just because of bad experiences with the TSA. However, I know that if the entire population starts voting decision-by-decision, this country will make some really terrible decisions incredibly fast. Like "gun control". But anyway, let's not take this conversation there.
Hehehe, oh good golly! That Senator Mica is such a silly willy! Hehe hehehe, aww shucks. He helped create the TSA, and now he realizes it's grown out of control. Geee golly, just smile and say: "Ooooopsies!"
I dread going through security, TSA are prim reason government sucks at everything they touch. The only business government should be in is the prison system.
Government sucks at that as well!! How do I know. Unfortunately I was in a Federal Prison. The Guards stole equipment for themselves and are involved with graft and corruption and most of those "employees" are minorities with low IQ's---TRUTH!!
Wrong on that too. Prisons are just a source of slave labor. It's always about money with them. Prisons should be privatized entirely and run by clinical staff that specialize in abhorrant behavior.
I was flying out of texas to nyc standing in line FOREVER two lines open 8 closed ..you know like at Walmart... 6 tsa leos doing checks and 15 setting on tables in the closed lanes
After a trip where they dumped my stuff out on a table and made me take off my shoes on every stop, I swore not to ever fly again unless I absolutely had to. I would drive to Hawaii if possible.
The TSA and the border / customs services employees are easily the rudest, most unprofessional imbeciles I have ever had the displeasure of encountering while traveling. They were literally the worst part of my journies.
1ex1uger omg don't get me started on the cbp sacks of shit Gestapo. If you show a us passport, they should just look at your bag briefly maybe and say have a nice day
Glad you agree. I am also outraged how much those imbeciles are paid in Canada, even at the trainee level. They make no meaningful contributions to the free market, yet are paid far better than entry level factory or construction workers despite being accountable to no one and needing possess nothing less than a high school diploma.
My daughter flies here occasionally. She had 2 darning needles in her luggage that were confiscated. What really pissed her off was a woman on her plane was seen darning later in the flight.
There is 2 ways I look at this, either they REALLY enjoy their jobs, or a scare to death to lose it. Thats how I explain how people are unusually nice.
The only time I had fun was watching TSA stand around watching one Agent test a bag of protein powder. One guy had his hand on his taser, another held the handcuffs only to discover it was protein powder. The passenger had placed his protein on top of his bag.
One more example of an enormous government bureaucracy utterly failing in it's mission, but having the authority to prevent any competition or change. I do not fly on vacations any longer specifically because of the TSA.
my wife worked for the TSA for about a year and they would catch a whole lot more stuff then makes the news. Its quite scary how much is out there. But it would make her mad that the supervisors didn't care about crowds and not opening more lines.
littlegoatgt yea they catch a lot of grannies carrying nail clippers. The governmentd loves to brag about when they catch something, and the tsa never brags because they've done nothing
"... and they would catch a whole lot more stuff then makes the news" Like? What kinds of stuff? Anything that might actually be a threat to the aircraft?
I can confirm this. I recently passed through TSA security with my father's ashes and they had to be taken out of my bag reacts raid and then swab for explosive residue. I saw the picture of the X-ray and there was a dark spot where my father's ashes were that was highlighted "suspicious material"
I had some young jerk of a TSA inspector go through my carry on in ATL. It had a zipper to access the frame. He yelled out, "I've found a secret compartment"! There was nothing in there, and it was the bag design. Made me feel like a criminal though.
As much as I hate having to "register" anything with the government I reluctantly got my pre-check traveler number recently. I got so tired of standing in long lines just to get on a plane. The funny thing is that the TSA agents in the pre-check line seem to be much more friendly and courteous.
Amused. I used to smuggle small pocket knives in packets of Extra gum, then when I’d beep in the metal detector, I’d say, “Oops, my bad. It’s just a pack of gum.” I used to do that almost every time I’d fly.
Ah this explains why I had such a better time going through the SF airport instead of the LA airport when I return from Thailand several times. After one time going through the LA airport to get back into the U.S. I never through there again.
