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44 sats \ 5 replies \ @Cje95 OP 8 Oct \ parent \ on: Bipartisan Blowback After White House Threat to Furloughed Workers’ Back Pay Politics_And_Law

Ehhh safety standards like air traffic control probably a crappy business. Easily can see companies cutting corners like Boeing did

53 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 8 Oct

I do get what you are saying but think about.

If we didn't have the government bailing out airlines with poor management would the bad ones go out of business? We would.

On safety, if an airline or airport has a poor track record they will lose money. The airlines or airports or passengers can vote with their dollars. Under the current system if a person isn't happy with the FFA they have no alternative.

Not pretending it would be perfect, the status quo is far from perfect. I just think maybe we should be a little more critical of the system, not just who is running it right now.

Its funny to me. Everyone believe businesses are driven by greed, but fail to see that when operations are run by people that have very little skin in the game that isn't as big of an issue.

The status quo of torts (correct me if I'm wrong) makes it pretty hard to go after the FFA if they screw up. For one, the government doesn't tend to report honestly on itself. Its not the org I'd start with if I were dismantling the federal gov but it too should go.

I'd start with the dept of Ed FWIW. Easy win.

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 8 Oct

Economically though this would essentially nuke air travel in the US hampering goods and people moving leading to catastrophic loss.

No one has presented a plan to rival the FAA and the FAA crucially also works in lock step with international partners. The EU, Asia, etc. they aren’t going to let a private company handle that much and that critical of data.

I like the idea but implementation isn’t there at least not yet.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 8 Oct

To me, the best argument against private FFA would be national security. If I were defending things like this I would come at it from that angle first.

62 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 8 Oct

See I think that’s more of the TSA angel FAA is a lot more of a trade/economic thing. Much like how customers controls the ports for shipping even if they are owned by a specific company customs and NSA still have a heavy hand in running them

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8 Oct

Yeah, in the current system where big companies are insulated from consequences of lawsuits. But if they were regulated by an insurance company that had to pay the victims... I believe it would be better.

I do not recall a time where the FFA was found to be liable and paid victims for their failure.