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Friday, July 11, 2008 01:24 PM
Original article: Ask the pilot

TSA employees

As someone who flies relatively frequently on domestic flights, I must say I have not been impressed with the folks the TSA is hiring. They're often rude and ignorant and out-and-out stupid. They're exactly what I imagine Soviet-era employees of the old state-run GUM stores were like. You have to wonder what they would be doing if not for the TSA. Now they're going to give these folks fancy uniforms and badges to get "respect"? Nobody respects them, and a new uniform isn't going to change that.

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