GOVERNMENT WASTE EXPOSED: TSA EDITION

I have to give kudos to this guy for exposing the billions wasted by the bureaucrats in the TSA .
Sometimes I wonder if it's a good idea or not to make this stuff so public but, then I realize that in this day and age, it's pretty  hard to keep anything under wraps.  It's probably good that weaknesses like this are exposed , IF something will be done to correct the problem.  In this case I don't look for those in charge to pay much attention, since doing so would expose them even more to the deserved criticism they already receive.  
We are now being told more and more, that every invasive technique used to monitor us or invade our privacy is for our own good.  When do we draw the line?  When is enough enough?  I can't even imagine where this is headed but, I have a bad feeling that ten years from now, we will be saying,  "these were the good old days when all they did was body scan you."
I came to the conclusion long ago that common sense is dead in this country,  or if not totally dead, on it's last legs.  Truthfully, I don't think we are capable of going back, so I've prepared myself to live with the constant stupidity of things as they are.  Not a great outlook I know and I truly hope I'm wrong. 

PRYING EYES ARE WATCHING YOU

Forty years ago we were taught that George Orwell’s novel 1984 was fiction. Today this may no longer be true. As the government methodically expands its power and ability to pry into every aspect of our lives, we are dangerously close to making his vision a reality. There is little privacy left to us as the government now stands on our doorstep ready to put a lens into the keyhole, to make sure we are not inside smoking, paddling our children, or perhaps even praying to the wrong God.
Remember when you could make a phone call that wasn’t being, “recorded for quality assurance?” Can you recall the last time you went to a store that wasn’t filming your every move? Now when you go to the airport you can be eye scanned, fingerprinted and x-rayed right down to that little mole on your thigh. Mom’s old adage that you should always wear clean underwear really matters now.
Politicians continue to make more laws allowing this unending invasion into the privacy of individual citizens, while refusing to consider making any laws limiting their power, or their time in office. They continue to ignore the safeguards already provided in the Constitution by the Founding Fathers. Instead they use as their ploy, the nonsensical notion that it is a “Living Document” which can be formed and molded based on their whims and needs, instead of what it was intended to be, namely a firm set of rules by which to run a nation.
All of this while too many Americans are content to sit idly by preferring to bicker over which political party is better and which career politician is bringing in the most pork for them. Now that we have developed a mindset and a generation of citizens who are so totally dependent on government “doing” everything for them we have become like the oysters following the walrus. Expect these losses of liberty and freedom to continue and look for Orwell’s book to be moved to the non-fiction shelf, right next to, “The Fall of the Roman Empire.”