ok, to my original point, any job in a poor economy is a good thing, the tsa happens to be government funded therefore our tax dollars go to pay theyre wages, in that respect i would much rather someone have a job to make the money than for someone to just sit at home and collect welfare, not that i dont mind my tax dollars going to someone who is truely in need (like what the welfare program was designed to be) however i dont like my tax dollars going to someone who doesnt try to earn it. so to defend how creating these jobs is good for the economy, someone who has a job will spend more money in this economy than someone who has no job, if you wanna look at it from a different perspective, look at what F.D.R. did in the thirtys to bring the economy out of a recession, he offered a job to anyone who wanted one (and thats how our interstate system was born).