The problem with terrorism in the U.S. isn't that there are actual terrorists[0], but that there is a crapton of money to be made making the American people feel unsafe.
[0] Sure, there's an attack on occasion. But you're more likely to die choking on a soda watching GoT.
As long as there is money to be made and jobs to be had, our elected officials will continue to look the other way when it comes to incidents like this.
Security theatre was job one behind the creation of the TSA; job two was a huge employment drive for the people under the auspice of a benevolent organization.
Since these two drivers are so deeply embedded in the duties that government understands as its primary mandates, there is no way they can see any faults in the system.
Also, consider what would happen if we eliminated the TSA
TSA has 62,000 employees and an annual budget in 2013 of $7.9 billion [http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/homeland-security/tsa]
Laying off 62,000 people from the government payroll and eliminating $8 billion in funding would constitute a significant hit on the economy, and practically guarantees you won't be re-elected.
You could give everyone at the TSA a $50k severance package and still recoup $4B. But the moment something happens, all the fingers are pointed your way. Wrongfully, of course, but human beings are bad at weighing risk and hindsight is 20/20.
We need to be thinking of the sources of unemployment, such as the shift in our energy demand, and instead of impotently promising to bring coal jobs back, redirect that manpower to something that will matter going forward.
The system is broken.
It's like throwing sand in the air to cover the sun.
Friends and family of the victims in San Bernardino and Orlando might disagree with you on that.
2.6 million people in the US will die every year.[0] How many of those die as a result of an act of terrorism? Of the 325 million people in the US, how many personally know someone who died in an act of terrorism?
The likelihood of dying from an act of terrorism in the US is 1 in 3.5 million.[1] The likelihood of dying from cancer is 1 in 540.
[0] ~325 million, annual death rate of 8 per 1k
[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-terrorism-statistics-every-american-needs-to-hear/5382818Saying the U.S. has "no terrorism problem" is just hyperbole, and useless rhetoric.
Not sure what you consider a problem, but I personally NEVER hear anyone say we have a choking problem in this country.
I add it again here:
[0] Sure, there's an attack on occasion. But you're more likely to die choking on a soda watching GoT.