Market Failure and Government Failure

" When governments produce bad outcomes, we typically rely on them more."

Government is the only institution which expands on failure. Every failure is rationalized as proof that more spending is needed.

when markets produce bad outcomes, we typically rely on them less. When governments produce bad outcomes, we typically rely on them more.

Maybe. This is a pretty fuzzy claim. What do you mean "rely on them"? Does that mean that actors expect less from them? That actors are less likely to voluntarily deal with them?

Also, the boundaries of "government" and "market" are fuzzy and matter much here. Doesn't immigration provide a counterexample to this claim? There have been massive waves of immigration over the course of history. Immigrants are relying less on at least one government.

The airline security stuff is a roust, not an attempt to improve anything.

A roust is a police-imposed inconvenience to give the appearance of action when nothing effective can in fact be done.

Nothing more than another reason to create a more effective police state in the US. To date 95% of the terrorist's are males between 20-40 with one religious belief. Maybe we should start discriminating.