I say this is not fair.
I get a discount for being old at many fast food places and movies and other places but the Transportation Security Administration has to be different.
They are doing testing to see if they can modify the screening of the elderly but it is for people 75 or older. I am only 70 years of age. I think they just want to feel my junk.
I guess one thing they will do, if they decide to use the new procedures, if there is a problem the first time an old fart like me goes through the full-body scanner they will let us go through again! Is that because at our age it does not matter if they subject our junk to radiation?
“Washington (CNN) -- After years of criticism, the Transportation Security Administration is taking the initial steps to modify screening for people age 75 or older.
Beginning Monday, the TSA will test procedures allowing those passengers to leave their shoes on, as well as light outerwear. Other changes are intended to reduce the likelihood that older passengers will be subjected to a pat-down.
Some airports want private screeners
The tests will be conducted at four airports: Chicago's O'Hare, Denver International, Portland International in Oregon, and Orlando International. If they are successful, the TSA could expand the procedures to checkpoints nationwide…”
I am just joking around….. I am not one of the people that attack the TSA screeners. The Republicans from day one have not wanted government screeners. They do not want government employees with decent pay. The Republicans want rent-a-cops (guards) from private for profit large corporations. Most of those security corporations now days are not American owned security firms by the way.
I long ago gave up trying to understand Republicans. We lost most of the good paying jobs from the days when I was young. Those jobs have all gone out of the United States.
We have some decent paying jobs now with the TSA screeners and they want to make those contract guard jobs at low wages with no benefits.
Being a TSA screener is hard work. There is also a lot of stress. They are tested and checked often. If they make an error they are out the door and on the street.
When I was working Security (FAA control tower) at Love Field the TSA would get someone like an FAA ATC employee and have the try and slip something pass a screener. If the person got something pass the screener that was the end of the job for the screener. That is a lot of stress on a person. You are trying to do your job and you got people giving you crap and you got the people you work for trying to catch you messing up.
There is a pretty large group of people and not just Republicans that do not like the TSA and the screeners. Part of it is people that hate government. They hate everything about the government. Then there is a group of people that just think there shit does not smell. They think they are special and they do not want anyone telling what they have to do. Then there are people that just fucking hate police. The police haters are a pretty large group of people.
Yes I do know there are a lot of people that are not like the above people. There are people that respect the police and there are people that want to fly safe.
But the people above our loud and leave a lot of comments online. So you start to think everyone is like them sometimes.
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