Newps wrote:

You have no idea what you're talking about. TSA guys make at least twice
what the old security people were making. Health insurance, 401K,
vacation(104 hours per year to start, 160 hrs after three years, 208 hrs
after 15 yrs) and sick leave(104 hrs per year and you never lose it). Like
any other federal employee.

And even if they were just making four bucks an hour they have quite
the responsibility considering the repetitive and probably boring
aspects of the job that must be repeated thousands of times a day.

I mean how many times a day can someone stare at an x-ray screen of
someones carry on baggage or wave a wand up and down over a body
without your mind starting to go numb.

Are they not the first and last line of defense as to who gets on an
airplane and what they get to carry on with them.