One of America’s busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen
passengers. Poor screener training,rampant theft,groping,and Xray scanners that were recently proven useless, have been cited as reasons for firing the TSA. The move threatens the highly unpopular federal agency’s role in other airports across the nation. With Sanford International having originally been prevented by the TSA from opting out back in November 2010 when the federal agency froze the ability for airports to use their own private screeners, a law passed by the Senate last month forces the TSA to reconsider applications. The move was motivated by the innumerable horror stories passengers have told of their encounters with the TSA, noting that the change was designed to provide a more “customer friendly” operation. Orlando Sanford is in the top 30 busiest airports in the world, with large numbers of takeoffs and landings. The most recent controversy involved a viral You Tube video created by engineer Jon Corbett which demonstrated how the TSA’s body scanners were virtually useless because they are unable to detect objects carried on the side of the body carried in a pocket. The TSA responded by threatening the media not to cover the issue. Kicking out the incompetent, criminally-inclined and abusive TSA across the nation will not only encourage millions of peeved Americans to start flying again, pumping much needed money into the travel industry, it will also create thousands of new private sector jobs.
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