Mr Neutron
Well-Known Member
No air traffic deaths but how many legalized sexual assaults and thefts by the TSA?Not a single air traffic death in 2010 if I recall. oh - ONE death due to e. coli? So the issue is this Neutron Sir. Do we trust unfettered unregulated commerce with the safety of our guts, our lungs and our children? Is that what you are intoning here? Or do you recall the Ford Pinto? Cars catching fire because the numbers didn't add up enough to correct the gas tank "problem"?
Unfettered and unregulated? No. There has to be a minimum of regulation. The market reacts much faster than government, though, especially when said government is grotesquely obese.
I owned a Ford Pinto. You know what? It never once caught fire. I also owned a GMC pick up that had a gas tank behind the seat (also sensationalized) and it never exploded, either. I've handled fireworks without injury, ridden motorcycles without a helmet, driven cars without a seatbelt, drank whole milk, eaten fresh foods (garden grown and wild) without FDA inspection and taken illegal drugs, (among other things) and I'm still here.
The only incentive a government agency has is to itself. To make sure above all else, that it not only survives but thrives. I have seen this in action. A flurry os buying activity before the budget year ends. If you don't spend all of your budget, you don't get an increase the next year.
If you don't find any of the problems you were created to find, you get eliminated.