The Transportation Security Administration and My Public Speaking

If I've noticed a single thing in the past couple weeks, whenever I'm having public political discussions people tend to quiet down and listen to me. They certainly wouldn't get quiet just to ignore me. Whenever I make an argument against certain domestic/foreign actions by our government people tend to agree with me, or try to rebuttal. When they try to rebuttal and I break their argument down piece by piece, they tend to either cut me off, agree with me, or get angry.

For instance, I think the TSA is a big issue. The government has no right to force people to be searched, now I'm not saying we should leave airports unguarded, but that the federal government has NO RIGHT to search people like that. I told people this today and they thought I was crazy, I didn't get the chance to point out that airports would then hire trained professionals to act as security (which would also create jobs by the way) and then people could agree with the airline company on what rights they waive when they buy the tickets.

Does that not make sense to anyone else?

Oh and another tip for airline security? Arm the freaking pilots.
"So I heard terrorists like taking over the cockpit to kill thousands?" Well I'd love to see them try to take over with boxcutters when the pilots are packing .45 caliber 1911s! Flight 93 stopped the terrorists with no firearms, and saved lives by sacrificing themselves. If the pilots were armed and trained, no lives would have needed to be lost!

In this day and age we need less government policies that try to focus on just one thing. If you try to focus on, for example creating jobs, you're going to lose something in return. If our federal government is going to do anything to assist the economy at all, it needs to have its intervention at a minimum and its policies need to focus on a number of measures. For instance, in my example the removal of the TSA would give the private sector the responsibility of paying the security, thus taking that weight off the budget and creating more jobs (that would most likely pay better and allow for more skilled/professional personnel). Thank you for reading.