TSA = T$A

At TSAFail, any story of security breaches, unscreened luggage, missed threats, evacuated airports, theft, assault, general dim-wittedness and a bad attitude would not surprise us. We have come to expect that- in fact it is why you are here reading this today.
But the thought of cash bonuses for TSA staff?
Never. Would. Have. Occured.
Oh TSA. How you keep surprising us.
Do read the Full Story below for the paragraph that outlines the $95.8M the TSA paid it's staff in bonuses last year. On average that is $2000 per TSA employee. Another way to look at it is as if each of the 735M air passengers last year each chipped in $0.13 per person, per flight.
Do we need to even mention the state of the economy last year? It makes us pine for the days that the most ineffectual government employees could botch the most important crisis of the day and get a 'Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job'. Pats on the back are free.
What could be next? Tip jars at airport security lines?

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