This was always the strategy.
Purposely break the government. Sell off public assets to private corporations and wealthy individuals, who are personally loyal to the mafia-leader strong-man president.
See post-Soviet Russia under Putin.
Oh, and for the mouth-breathers, +1 million casualties in a war of choice and a crumbling economy which only benefits oligarchs, who, if they fall out of favor get pushed out of open windows… is not ‘good.’
I don't disagree with you, but I'd rather see screening privatized than have ICE in charge...
As SFO is my home airport, I have little-to-no concern about private contractors doing the screening...EXCEPT that there needs to be standardization between different contractors at different airports in terms of equipment used for said screening, policies regarding how people and objects are screened, etc. -- i.e.: shoes vs. no shoes, people with pacemaker or who have had joint replacements, and so on. And what of TSA pre-check and Global Entry?
"I have little-to-no concerns about private contracts. The following is a list of my concerns..."
Hello, there are already quite a few US airports using private contract to handle to security check, including SFO. The official list can be found on TSA website: https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/screening-partnerships
So you do not need to guess how good or bad it could be. It is real already, for quite a few years.
Well sounds like just in time for Don Jr to invest in a newly established corporation that will magically win the bid. Call it TRUMP-SA, and charge us for naming rights too.
For all those who care, all this drama was spelled out in project 2025. Defund, discredit, blame the left, sell it off to loyal corporate that will do the bidding and send a little "donation" upstairs. Unfortunately, no oversight to be seen.
When contracting out a product or service you no longer control that product or service. Yes, you have a contract that outlines the expectations. The reason that contract exist, is for court. And if you are in court, there are problems.
"so do you really think a private company will be able to do this well on a huge scale?"
Did you really think about that before posting this?
This are hundreds of private companies that demonstrably operate with astounding efficiencies at large scale. And governments almost inevitably fail at doing so.
Did you really think before posting this? Very few private companies are held to the regulatory and record-keeping standards of national governments. And when the task is performing searches of people's bags and persons, I think it's better for the organization with more oversight and accountability to taxpayers, IE the national government, to perform those searches than a private contractor.
Hopefully small airports will now be forced to fund their security and not be dependent upon the general public to fund them.
Private airport screenings will be absolutely great cause they'll compete for both service and safety. They'll also turn up cheaper cause anything truly private is far cheaper that anything ever slightly govvy. Lefty trashbags will cry. The world will benefit. Win Win.
It was privatized leading up to 9/11.
At that time a preponderance of evidence indicated someone was not paying attention to detail……
The bottom line is everything in the Trump administration is going to be worse but one of his donors or family members will be making a lot of money.
And when those unionized private employees decide to call a "one day strike" like they occasionally like to do in Germany, France, Belgium etc......everything stops. Nice.
Even in socialist Europe (or socialistic, ignorant MAGAs can’t even speak their own language), security is privatised. Unlike healthcare, which is taxpayer funded and mostly included in your tax bill. Still, our security is faster, more efficient and even the trolls at Heathrow T5 make your average TSA agent seem like a real troll. And if you need a hip replacement, get cancer or shot (as you do in Trumpistan), there’s no bill, no fear of ending up at the wrong hospital and even poor people survive cancer. And you don’t have to choose between treatment for yourself now, or the possibility your wife might need it in the future…
Almost refreshing to see a bog standard GOP rerun of intentionally breaking something in order to try and privatize it, instead of blatant extrajudicial executions in international waters or starting a war of choice in the Middle East.
Does no one remember how bad airports security was before the TSA? I do. The TSA isn't perfect but it's better in every way than what we had before.
May be it would be good. Look at some of the services like Clear or TSA Pre-Check and those are relatively well run. That are privatized or that people need to pay for. If a credit card includes it as a benefit that is not the point.