{"id":395320,"date":"2019-02-06T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/government-shutdown-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:37:06","slug":"government-shutdown-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/government-shutdown-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was starting to feel sorry for the 800,000 federal employees who hadn\u2019t received paychecks for more than a month. Then Donald Trump caved to the Democrats and ended the government shutdown last week.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s now a bipartisan effort in Congress to enact a law that would make government shutdowns less likely. But I have a much better and more permanent solution: privatize most of the functions that Uncle Sam\u2019s intrepid bureaucrats perform.<\/p>\n

Take the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), for instance. A big reason Trump ended the shutdown was that so many TSA employees had called in sick that flight delays were becoming intolerable. That wouldn\u2019t have happened if the government hadn\u2019t been in the airline security business.<\/p>\n

Not that it\u2019s doing an especially good job. In 2015, the TSA sent undercover agents to dozens of America\u2019s largest airports to test security protocols. Shockingly, the agents were able to smuggle fake explosives or weapons through security checkpoints 95% of the time. The TSA failed in 67 out of 70 tests.
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Two years later, the TSA tried again. The good news is that the failure rate fell from 95% to 70%. The bad news is \u2026 well, a 70% failure rate is nothing to celebrate.<\/p>\n

One reason is the TSA performs so poorly is that the politicians in charge of our national security believe catering to lobbyists is more important than security.<\/p>\n

Consider the saga of the\u00a0Rapiscan scanner<\/a>. It began after an inept terrorist with a bomb hidden in his underwear tried to blow up an airplane in 2009. The bomb failed to explode, but America\u2019s national security bureaucracy went into high gear after the \u201cUnderwear…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I was starting to feel sorry for the 800,000 federal employees who hadn\u2019t received paychecks for more than a month. Then Donald Trump caved to the Democrats and ended the government shutdown last week. There\u2019s now a bipartisan effort in Congress to enact a law that would make government shutdowns less likely. But I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}