October 6, 2018: Government Regulations Are Just What We Need

 

10/6/18: Once again we learn a hard lesson about the need for government regulation. A limousine owned by a New York company with a history of failed safety inspections and known to hire drivers without proper licenses is involved in a catastrophic crash. The driver, all seventeen passengers, and two pedestrians are killed. This makes it the deadliest crash in the U.S. in years. 

So, yes, regulations are often necessary.

 

See also: NFL brain damage, unsafe Duck Boat operations, failing hip replacement devices,  and for-profit colleges ripping off students. Then you have U.S. banks laundering money for drug cartels and Big Pharma pushing “safe” opioid pain killers because – they promised – what could go wrong!

January 11, 2020: Boeing Culture is Broken

 1/11/20: We learn that the culture at Boeing was broken before their newest plane, the 737 Max 8, started falling from the sky. In recently released documents one employee sums up the general safety and quality of the new aircraft: “This is a joke. This airplane is ridiculous.”

Government oversight isn't always bad.

 

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“This airplane is ridiculous.” 

Boeing employee

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 “I honestly don’t trust many people at Boeing,” another employee admits. 

Chelsey B. Sullenberger III, famous for safely landing a crippled jetliner on the Hudson River, sums up the story for reporters, saying, “We’ve all seen this movie before, in places like Enron.” 

“Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft?” one Boeing employee asked another in 2018, before two planes nosedived into the ground. “I wouldn’t.” 

And, once again, in Trumpistan, we learn that all government regulations are terrible, all the time. 

Unless you fly on airplanes. 

And don’t want to die.