The biggest problem is the rank inefficiency of the TSA. I don't think I've flown in the years since 9/11 where I didn't have to wait in line to get into the terminal, with everyone funneled through one or two scanner lines, while there are a dozen TSA employees lounging around doing nothing, and four or five additional lines that could be used sitting idle and unused.
Throw in some stupid, arbitrary, and unpredictably enforced rules, and hassling about taking off your shoes, belt, unpacking all your luggage, dumping out your ziplock baggy of minuscule volumes of toothpaste and shampoo, confiscating your fingernail clippers, and all the other indignities that are forced on you by petty tyrant mall-cop types.
Seems like there's some sort of alternative option - whatever arrangement the state of California has with the department of Homeland security. I don't fully understand it, just get glimpses from brief conversations with tsa agents as they pat me down, but it seems California self-funds tsa, meaning for example all stations are usually manned, and there was no slowdown during the government shut down.
Throw in some stupid, arbitrary, and unpredictably enforced rules, and hassling about taking off your shoes, belt, unpacking all your luggage, dumping out your ziplock baggy of minuscule volumes of toothpaste and shampoo, confiscating your fingernail clippers, and all the other indignities that are forced on you by petty tyrant mall-cop types.