"limited resources"?

Why is the Transportation Security Agency facing a "tight budget"?

What the hell is going on? I read this in today's Washington Post in an article explaining why they're allowing scissors and other pointy objects back on airplanes:

Faced with a tighter budget and morale problems among its workforce, the TSA says its new policy changes are aimed at making the best use of limited resources.

Limited resources? We're talking about an agency whose job it is to stop your mom's airplane from blowing up. What limited resources and tight budget problems are they facing? Who in the GOP-controlled congress isn't giving this vital agency the money they need?

Funny, but when Bush needs $300 billion to fight a war that's a lie and a quagmire, we find the money in a snap. But when we need the money to stop our commerical airliners from blowing up, suddenly the budget is tight.

The GOP, the party of treason. Osama must be so proud that the Republicans are making his job easier.

(Americablog)
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Interesting thing - when I read this article elsewhere this morning, it said nothing about the changes being due to budget cutbacks. Damn "liberal media"!! Of course, the repugs care nothing about the people that can be affected by this.
I have no idea whether loosening these restrictions will make us less saf, but the fact that this agency does not have the money it needs to do it's job is pretty insane, since we're supposedly fighting a "war on terror".