Lawmaker calls for boost in passenger screening technology (Privatize?)

[The Straight Story]

Lawmaker calls for boost in passenger screening technology
From CongressDaily


Congress should direct the Transportation Security Administration to spend money on screening technology rather than "armies of personnel," House Transportation and Infrastructure Aviation Subcommittee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla. said Tuesday.

He also advocated administrative action to change from a federally operated system to one run by private contractors.


Mica said a report released Tuesday by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general bolsters his argument.


A recent GAO report found that screening operations at airports with privatized systems performed better than those with federal screeners. "Over the last three-and-half years, we have spent billions of dollars creating a Soviet-style, centralized bureaucracy that has resulted in greater inefficiencies and inflexibility with little improvement in screening effectiveness," Mica said.


http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0405/041905cdpm2.htm

[wakeme2008]

1. Get the "free hardware" then privatize it

I have thought this was the Repug game plan from the start. Get the Federal govt to buy the best money can buy hardware , then kick the govt workers out and bring in cheap labor for the private companies to make $$ off of.