TSA mess shows failure of big government

May I suggest that those favoring more government intervention in our lives take a look at the long lines of people waiting for clearance to board flights at airports these days?

People are being told to arrive at least two to three hours before their flights; and still, tens of thousands are missing those flights, sleeping overnight in airports, wasting colossal amounts of time and money, and experiencing gross inconvenience as a by-product of lousy management by the TSA arm of "Big Government."

I know that our president and attorney general, among others, are preoccupied with the bathroom and shower stall preferences of a tiny fraction of the nation's population; but one would think that they might devote some management attention to solving challenges at the TSA that are negatively impacting millions of people.

And, I've yet to see penalty threats aimed at TSA's wrongdoers that are like those thrust at bathroom practice purists. The misfeasance of the TSA provides ample evidence that the federal government has grown far too large, is highly insensitive to the needs of those which it is supposed to serve, and is just too big to manage effectively.

We've seen this before with the VA, the IRS, the NSA, the Obamacare launch debacle, and on and on. Let's move forward by confining the scope of government to those functions which are absolutely necessary and leave the rest of it to free market solutions.

We can start by turning TSA unionists' duties over to private sector firms that might actually be both effective and accountable.

Charles F. Falk

Schaumburg