Take off your belt. Okay, now your shoes. And remove your laptop from your carry-on. Your liquids are more than 3 ounces? In the trash they go. And if you could just stand in that machine so a stranger can see you naked, that would be great. Also, even though we can’t be trusted with weapons we’d like to grope your small child.

Welcome to TSA: We’re going to screw up your trip, but we can’t manage to prevent the crap we’re supposed to be preventing.

The Transportation Security Administration is plagued by significant problems, a congressional report said Wednesday on the 10th anniversary of Congress creating the agency…

“Unfortunately, TSA has lost its way,” Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said during a Wednesday news conference at Reagan National Airport near Washington.

“It is time for reform,” he added.

Among the problems? A bloated bureaucracy consisting of more than 65,000 workers who have consistently failed to prevent security breaches. In fact, the report found more than 25,000 breaches in the last 10 years along with more than 500 scanning machines that can be easily thwarted.

Never mind the senseless invasions of privacy and mindless searches. TSA employees are expected to pretend grandma in her wheelchair traveling with the grandkids to Disney World is as much a threat as the young, jittery Arab guy traveling alone on a one-way ticket. And parents who dare to intervene when rent-a-cops grope their children have been arrested.

And as if the situation couldn’t get any worse, now the Obama Administration has decided to allow TSA to unionize. Which means incompetent agents will be even more difficult to fire and they’ll be even less accountable to the American people. Because that’s apparently what we needed: A less accountable TSA bureaucracy. That’s what American was missing.