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Just what do government workers do?

Rainer - 3-9-2013 at 12:10 PM

Just what do government workers do?
Friday - 3/8/2013, 2:00am EST
By Mike Causey


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Ever wonder what those men and women (mostly in uniform) who work around major international airports actually do for a living? Other than slow things down for us busy and important travelers who have places to go and things to do?
Does it really matter if they are forced to take a furlough day once a week for a couple of weeks. Sure they will miss the money, but will we miss them? Maybe more than we think. Take last Saturday, please...

Over the weekend, Customs and Border Protection personnel arrested a 47-year-old woman at the International Arrivals area of Dulles Airport. She had just flown in from London. What she obviously didn't know is that they were serving an arrest warrant for child abduction issued by Montgomery County, Md. The child in question, a young girl, was reunited with her father.

We don't know the details or merits of the case. Or how it will turn out. What we do know is that the feds did their job. According to the CBP, its agents and officers make an average of 54 criminal arrests each day, every day, at various U.S. ports of entry.

Some of the arrests involve drugs hidden in TMI places you wouldn't believe. Sometimes they are more amusing, like parrots or other exotic, sometimes dangerous creatures being smuggled in coat pockets, shirts, pants and occasionally underwear. Some of the arrests involve very dangerous weapons.

Over the years, the gang at Dulles and at airports in Miami, Atlanta, Dallas-Ft. Worth, LAX and San Francisco have seen lots of interesting stuff. And that isn't going to stop.

But whether the furloughs are necessary or not, it appears to be a good thing that the CBP people were there, and on their toes, over the weekend.

Wonder what and where the other 53 average arrests were that day? Maybe we need these people after all!

desertcpl - 3-9-2013 at 12:15 PM

you feel better now :?::?::?:

Rainer - 3-9-2013 at 12:19 PM

What kind of a comment is that??

mtgoat666 - 3-9-2013 at 12:24 PM

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Originally posted by Rainer
Just what do government workers do?


answer: waste our time and money!!

just why do we need to take our shoes off for every flocking flight? and why cant we carry nail clippers?

its flocking "security theater" that does little to make us more secure, and wastes our time and money!

according to your logic, the ID check catches bad guys with warrants,... then perhaps we should stop people and demand ID checks on every street corner!

according to your logic it stops smuggling. then why dont we have road blocks/searches on every highway?

hogwash!

Rainer - 3-9-2013 at 12:32 PM

so-according to your "logic" - it's ok to just open the boreder and let everybody and everything in without checking????
WOW!!!

monoloco - 3-9-2013 at 12:55 PM

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Originally posted by Rainer
so-according to your "logic" - it's ok to just open the boreder and let everybody and everything in without checking????
WOW!!!
You obviously have never been to secondary and seen how many agents there are wandering around drinking coffee and shooting the bull. I don't think anybody's advocating leaving the borders wide open, just that maybe they can do with a bit less, just like most Americans, who don't work for the government, are these days.

comitan - 3-9-2013 at 01:18 PM

monoloco

Thats what I see everytime in secondary.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bajaguy - 3-9-2013 at 02:48 PM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666
Quote:
Originally posted by Rainer
Just what do government workers do?


answer: waste our time and money!!

just why do we need to take our shoes off for every fricking flight? and why cant we carry nail clippers?

its fricking "security theater" that does little to make us more secure, and wastes our time and money!

according to your logic, the ID check catches bad guys with warrants,... then perhaps we should stop people and demand ID checks on every street corner!

according to your logic it stops smuggling. then why dont we have road blocks/searches on every highway?

hogwash!



Hey, good ideas about the ID checks and roadblocks. Think I will send it along to Washington DC

chuckie - 3-9-2013 at 03:09 PM

Good luck with that...Wait a minute! They will create another federal agency....forget sending it...