TSA Wastes Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars

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via Personal Liberty Digest

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has set off alarms at the Capitol. A Congressional report issued on Wednesday reveals that TSA has been groping taxpayer dollars.

The officials of the agency have taken the buy-in-bulk mentality to new levels. The report shows that TSA has procured millions of dollars of unnecessary equipment in order to get a discount.

TSA has been buying its equipment in bulk and then putting it in storage, where it takes up space and depreciates.

The report states: “TSA is wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars by inefficiently deploying screening equipment and technology to commercial airports.”
The report continues:

Committee staff discovered that 85% of the approximately 5,700 major transportation security equipment currently warehoused at the TLC had been stored for longer than six months; 35% of the equipment had been stored for more than one year. One piece of equipment had been in storage more than six years – 60% of its useful life.

As of February 2012, Committee staff discovered that TSA had 472 Advanced Technology 2 (AT2) carry-on baggage screening machines at the TLC and that more than 99% have remained in storage for more than nine months; 34% of AT2s have been stored for longer than one year.

Committee staff estimate that the delayed deployment of TSA’s state-of-the-art screening technologies has resulted in a massive depreciated loss of equipment utility at an estimated cost to taxpayers of nearly $23 million.

But the TSA believes the practice has made Americans safer.

“To fulfill its security responsibilities, TSA rapidly deploys technology to respond to changing threat information, and stand up operations in locations affected by natural disasters and other crises,” TSA spokesperson Sterling Payne said in defense of the agency. “These factors and others require the agency to have a steady inventory of technology available to prevent supply disruptions from compromising aviation security.”

The report recommends that TSA “halt all equipment procurement unless there is a bona fide need.”

Religion of “Peace?”

The fundamental teaching of Biblical Christianity is LOVE toward unbelievers and enemies. This is the theme from Genesis to Revelation. On the contrary, the Koran teaches violence to unbelievers. Based on this fundamental truth, Islamists who choose to execute jihad in other than violent ways, via political routes or traditional “religious” preaching, are still motivated by HATRED while Christians are compelled, according to the Bible, by the unconditional love of God. In practice, neither succeeds all the time. There are Christians who do not live by God’s love, but rather judge and condemn others for different beliefs. Even though this is true, the fact remains, the Bible commands believers to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them. Islam motivates its followers to treat non-believers ruthlessly.

Another note about Islam that I found interesting is the outcome. While Biblical believers are assured a place in “heaven,” and most believe this is a fundamental tenet of faith, Islam continues to “pray” for the Prophet every time they refer to him.

Mohammed claimed to be Allah’s last prophet and that the Koran was Allah’s last book.

The ‘bribe’ to silence Wright

Last Updated: 9:19 AM, May 13, 2012
Posted: 11:14 PM, May 12, 2012

When sermons of Obama’s Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, surfaced during the Iowa primaries, it threatened to derail Obama’s campaign. ABC aired one where Wright screamed, “Goddamn America!” Edward Klein interviewed Wright, who told him Obama’s team tried to buy his silence.

‘Man, the media ate me alive,” Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election.”
“Who sent the e-mail?” I asked Wright.

“It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.”

“He offered you money?”

“Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.”

“How much money did he offer you?”

“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said.

“Did Obama himself ever make an effort to see you?”

“Yes,” Wright said. “Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place. And I said, ‘You’re used to coming to my home, you’ve been here countless times, so what’s wrong with coming to my home?’ So we met in the living room of the parsonage of Trinity United Church of Christ, at South Pleasant Avenue right off 95th Street, just Barack and me. I don’t know if he had a wire on him. His security was outside somewhere.

“And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.’ He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, ‘I wish you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.’

“And what did you say?” I asked. “I said, ‘I don’t see it that way. And anyway, how am I supposed to support my family?’ And he said, ‘Well, I wish you wouldn’t speak in public. The press is gonna eat you alive.’

“Barack said, ‘I’m sorry you don’t see it the way I do. Do you know what your problem is?’

And I said, ‘No, what’s my problem?’

And he said, ‘You have to tell the truth.’ I said, ‘That’s a good problem to have. That’s a good problem for all preachers to have. That’s why I could never be a politician.’

“And he said, ‘It’s going to get worse if you go out there and speak. It’s really going to get worse.’

“And he was so right.”