America’s airport problems need to be fixed now

America cannot function with travelers stuck in security lines for three and four hours, as was reportedly the case Monday at several major U.S. airports, compounding the weekend problems and snarling the travel of business travelers and spring breakers alike. Transportation Security Administration employees cannot be expected to go weeks or months without paychecks they need to pay their bills. And Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have a job to do other than looking inside travelers’ bags and checking identification, tasks for which they are not directly trained, especially in an era of heightened security alerts. Simply put, Americans have the right to expect their government to take care of these things. Also, airlines such as Chicago-based United Airlines, which recently told us of the challenges of dealing with the war in the Middle East and ballooning fuel prices, have the right to expect governmental involvement in their heavily regulated industry not to actively work against them. United and its peer airlines cannot do profitable or even sustainable business if a larg

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