[WillPostForFood]

For better or worse these are people to whom we'd likely be funneling money in one fashion or another

Not a fan of TSA, but the people working there seem like normal, employable people. If we got rid of TSA, ~20% could probably stay working security at the Airports, and the other 80% could move on to actual productive jobs, and instead of us funneling money to them they'd be generating money.

[jghn]

Is that true though? Are there really that many jobs hanging around, in the areas in which these people live, paying an equal or better salary, for which these people are qualified? These aren't people who are going to stop working as a person standing around directing traffic and start coding distributed systems.

EDIT: I'm assuming they're paid more than min wage, I'll admit I don't know.

[justsomehnguy]

I'm lazy[0], so the first links:

    TSA (Transportation Security Administration) salaries: How much does TSA (Transportation Security Administration) pay?

    Popular Roles
    Transportation Officer
    $43,454 per year
    Transportation Specialist
    $76,443 per year
    Marshal
    $67,643 per year
    
    https://www.indeed.com/cmp/TSA-(transportation-Security-Administration)/salaries
    

Also see https://www.tsacareer.com/tsa-pay-scale/

[0] well, looks I'm a bit less lazier than you, heh

[bombcar]

Only thing I know of is that the people who couldn't qualify to be prison guards would go work at the TSA.

[bagels]

Some of them are nice, normal, employable people. Some of them are angry fascists. Some of them are thieves. Some of them are rapists.