DHS Budget Includes No New Airport Body Scanners

OverTheGeicoE writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center has been examining the White House's proposed budget for Department of Homeland Security for 2013, and they point out that it doesn't include any money for additional airport body scanners for TSA. Did the recent scandal involving TSA workers targeting women for scans make the White House realize that TSA is a national embarrassment? Does the executive branch finally understand the questionable safety and effectiveness of these devices? Or does DHS just think it has enough scanners once TSA installs the 250 new scanners in this year's budget?"

Progress

[CelticWhisper]

It's a step in the right direction, though if you ask me only the full, outright abolition of this pathetic, unconstitutional joke of an agency qualifies as "enough." It'll be "fun" to see what kind of tantrum Chief Molester Pistole throws about being denied his latest batch of toys. Here's hoping Congress tells him to shut up and be thankful he got any money at all. Why they don't just strip all funding from TSA at this point is beyond me.

pat downs are cheaper

[Joe_Dragon]

pat downs are cheaper

Not good enough

[Baloroth]

The new DHS budget should include no money for the TSA, period. The whole organization is an ineffective, Constitutional-rights breaking embarrassment and a waste of money.

Re:not needed

[EdIII]

But saying the average American is not intelligent enough to ride a horse -- that's just elitism.

No. That's pragmatism.

The majority of Americans are no longer self sufficient and have lost "generational" knowledge that has been passed down. Did you grow up on a farm? How much information was imparted to you from your parents?

It goes for a lot more than horses.

Maybe I am a little too cynical, but unless it is something shallow and easy I just don't see the average American picking up that kind of a skill set quick enough to make a difference. There is going to be quite a learning curve. Not to mention how to cooperate with others on horses, regulations, care, etc.

Oh, I am American. Looking around at some people in the city I have serious doubts about their survival capabilities without all the technology that they have cocooned themselves with.

P.S - You cannot compare an American 200 years ago with an American 100 years ago, and most certainly not today. Take this as my cynicism, but most Americans today are that in name only. We have fallen quite a bit, and it seems like there is no end to how much farther we are going to fall.

Re:I doubt you can get rid of it

[blackpaw]

short of a complete takeover by Republicans

Eh? It was republicans that created the TSA.