Originally Posted by
JLWSanDiego
A big part of our problems today is that many if not most of our politicians are in fact lawyers
The problem more related to this thread is that the industry seems to have established a trend, and built momentum in that direction, of dumbing down the flight deck positions and only retaining them so that there is someone to blame. (Yes, very cynical view, but that "Children of the Magenta Line" theory didn't arrive out of nowwhere).