It also made air travel painful and more expensive. The overhead of TSA is not insignificant.

> TSA has caught 0 terrorists

Where do you get these statistics? Is it a fact or a personal opinion?

The TSA has been in existence for more than 20 years now. Can you find a single case where a terrorist has been convicted as a result of the actions of the TSA?

Certainly the TSA would have really ramped up the PR about how useful they are if they had some evidence?

Actually, airport employees are told not to talk about incidents that happen... probably the same with TSA

The TSA is a welfare program for veterans. However, this is America, so we can't just give people money because something something socialism, so we have to give them pretend make-work.

The military is a welfare program for rural America - both via employing/housing/feeding hordes of poorly educated young white men as rank and file, but also employing all the people in the civilian sector who work for companies feeding the military's massive supply chain.

We don't have a draft because we don't quite need one; we just force people into poverty and leave the military as the only escape route.

If we had functioning social service programs, young men and women wouldn't enlist, and we wouldn't have enough "volunteers."

Actual social services are buried in endless red tape, regulations, restrictions, and endless challenges and demands to justify their existence....while the Pentagon will probably never pass an audit and is essentially an open fire hose where one can just say "JERBS!" and everyone is happy.

The farm bill is nearly as bad.

And guess who screams the loudest when coastal states want money for help with public transit, housing, etc? Rural America, which sucks from the teat the hardest.

And guess who the biggest single polluter / largest carbon generator in the world is?

The US military.

We don’t have a draft because we’re not in a major conflict, no?

Dont you think that means its actually working?

The TSA is 95% ineffective when they are tested with simulations of real threats. They are not doing anything.

It’s a jobs program, that we all pay for three times over (in cash, in inconvenience, and for an unlucky minority, in harassment or worse). And because it’s a jobs program, it’s politically invincible.

Maybe we should just pay for fake red team terrorists too. Even more jobs, and keeps the agents in top readiness. Basically airport Counterstrike.

How is that possible?

The metal detectors and millimeter scanners are real at the very least, so I’d expect most weapons to be caught.

Not likely: https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-fin...

Or is it proof of how well the TSA works in scaring off terrorists? On a completely different note, I have tiger repellent for sale. I can prove it works extremely well in that I have not once seen a tiger loose anywhere around me.