Economic growth following TSA's new methods
ThisGreatNation.com | September 13, 2010 | Na'aim Maison
One undeniable fact about the TSA's new "enhanced pat-down" approach is that security checks have slowed dramatically.
Because of this, TSA is hiring new employees at an incredible rate for a recession. Initial estimates are saying that close to 100,000 new jobs will be created to increase security staffing to levels high enough to bring the average "security checkpoint" wait-time back to previous levels.
Unfortunately, the nature of the position has brought about a record number of sex offenders applying for those positions. Because the majority of the positions are non-technical and non-degree requiring, the TSA cannot discriminate against previous sex offenders who have served their debt to society and have a legal obligation to hire them as equals to non-offenders.
When recently asked for his perspective on this, Barrack Obama was quoted as saying
"It's an unfortunate situation that comes with any major act of job creation. Any time you enact legislation that creates jobs on this massive of a scale, there are going to be certain unsavory characters hoping to take advantage of the explosion in job growth. While it may be discomforting, it's a necessary evil. In the same manner for which a nation cannot call itself "advanced" while simultaneously profiling victims of as-yet-commited crimes, we cannot discriminate against prior criminals who have paid their debt to the society for their offenses."
He later added
"If we should take anything at all from this, it should be a sense of pride in our nation for its non-discriminatory actions in hiring these former criminals and a great comfort in knowing that these jobs were created during one of this nation's most difficult economic times."