'American Traveler Dignity Act' proposed... (Ron Paul, 9/11, insurance, cost)

[twowolves]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwsdq69AHnw

And...let the airlines and airports take over passenger safety. They have a much stronger incentive to stop terrorists and balance the concerns of their customers than the TSA ever will and the competition between them will produce a better security product that people want.

How good do you think the cars would be if only the government was allowed to produce them? Without any competition, you would be driving around in POS car that cost more (including tax dollars of course) than a far superior market-produced car would.

Govt needs to get out of the way.

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by twowolves

They have a much stronger incentive to stop terrorists and balance the concerns of their customers than the TSA ever will and the competition between them will produce a better security product that people want.

What would those incentive be? Screaming passengers take precedent over intrusion and delays, bottom lines take precedent over new detection technologies and insurance covers loses incurred due to fatalities. The incentives were so strong prior to 9/11 that we wound up with the TSA!

Just a trip down the memory hole:

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch1.htm - broken link)

[oz in SC]

Big government good....

[mohawkx]

The terrorists have won. They have us strip searching every citizen who travels out of a sense of fear. Next step is the manditory proctology exam after some bohunk shoves a pound of PETN up his butt and gets caught trying to light it.

[Jadex]

I am really starting to like Ron Paul after listening to that.

Enough is Enough.

Why do I have to either face radiation or be sexual assaulted to get on a plane to fly some where in America? Why do I have to lose my privacy?

I would rather die free then die living in a cage

[Backspace]

Ron Paul is smarter than anyone in Washington DC, that's why the left hates him and attacks him all the time.