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ICE: $45 an Hour to Stand There. TSA: $0 an Hour to Keep You Safe (botonomous.ai)

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why compare ICE to TSA? TSA was always "paid to stand three" (and look like they're doing something useful). How about:

ICE is paid to hurt innocent people and the economy in general while there's...

FEMA workers who are out there actually helping people who really need it.
CISA employees who are actively engaged in fighting information security incidents. Probably the biggest impact of all government employees if they just stopped showing up for work!
Civilian Coast Guard employees who actually make it possible for things like search and rescue operations to function.

...who are not getting paid.

Aside: Seriously, the CISA folks need to start being treated like they're holding the nuclear football. With the (unbelievablly stupid) Iran war going on, they're what's standing between infrastructure that works and suddenly having millions of Americans without power, water, or say, having a damn burst (which can happen if the right SCADA systems get taken over!).

[–] manxu@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great comment! Tiny observation:

ICE is paid to hurt [...] the economy in general

ICE is paid to hurt Democrat cities mostly, and those that didn't pledge allegiance to the right person. If their methods had been applied in general, there would be a lot of MAGA malcontent.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Democratic controlled cities and states are where the bulk of our wealth gets generated

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

TSA was always "paid to stand three" (and look like they're doing something useful).

It was mainly created as a last ditch effort to keep the airlines a float after 9/11. A lot of people might be too young to remember, but a large chunk of the population stopped flying out of fear after 9/11. So the government basically created the TSA out of thin air to keep the airlines privatized.

Now we're just stuck paying for security theater and securing airline profit margins.