TSA Slated for Dismantling (washingtonpost.com): "'Republicans didn't want to create this [bureaucracy] in the first place. Democrats see security as an easy target. So you don't have anyone to defend it,' said C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., former assistant secretary for policy and planning at Homeland Security's Border and Transportation Security directorate, which includes TSA. " Sort of like when a store marks prices up so that it can subsequently put them "on sale". Watch as we "scale back big government".