U.S. Extends Deadline to Switch Screeners

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Private-Screeners.html

November 16, 2004
U.S. Extends Deadline to Switch Screeners
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 5:01 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is making it easier for airports that want to replace federal baggage and passenger screeners with privately employed workers, The Associated Press has learned.

A three-week period for airports to apply to make the switch, scheduled to begin Thursday, will be extended indefinitely, the Transportation Security Administration has decided.

``We're ready to work with any airport that prefers to have contractor screeners,'' TSA chief David Stone said in a statement obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

..more at AP

[Old and In the Way]

1. Isn't that what we were told was a problem on 9/11/01?

Hiring screeners at minimum wage?

[babylonsister]

3. You're absolutely correct, and they made

a helluva big deal about it, too. Ah, the more things change...
Feel safer now?

[demosincebirth]

2. Bet ya they're able to replace them in the red states first..

Many in the blue states are union

[ohioliberal]

4. I'm sure there are enough

people out of work that could do this job better!

[high density]

5. Private companies -> Gov. Bureaucracy -> Private companies

Man, these "conservatives" sure know what the hell they're doing. :crazy:

[ingasm]

6. The Conservative Way

Trying shit over and over until they realize that it doesn't work - and never will.

[Spinzonner]

7. Also

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

Albert Einstein

[Stinky The Clown]

8. They *were* private ... now its about $$bux$$

Screeners **were** private. Now, when the goopers see how much this all is costing, they wanna again privatize it and let the states pay instead.

Is anyone feeling safer under daddy?