Saturday, October 08, 2011

TSA finds a new way to waste your money

TSA finds a new way to waste your money:

$237 million more dollars down the drain.

IN THE LATEST ATTEMPT to prove they’re “protecting you from yesterday, tomorrow,” the TSA has announced plans to insert yet another extravagantly expensive, questionably effective machine into the airport security screening process.

You know how at the entrance to the security line there’s that agent who makes sure the name on your boarding pass is the same as the one on your photo ID? Apparently that guy’s job is too hard.

According to CNN, the TSA has contracted with three companies to produce machines to “match a traveler’s boarding pass with his or her government-issued ID, while verifying that both documents are authentic.”

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total $237 million, and only buy 30 machines.

(Excerpt) Read more at matadornetwork.com ...

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