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Old 28th Aug 2009, 17:05
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cessnapuppy
 
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I think you strengthened my point

No further legislation is necessary. The FAA, as an administrative enforcement body, has the power to fix things as we speak.
(They've had 'the power' for a long time, including the ability to shut down/fine repeated safety violators: instead, FAA inspectors get censored , silenced or fired, and SouthWest Airlines continues to fly till bits get ripped off the plane at 30,000ft
)
Congress passed the 'ennabling legislation' long ago. If the Unions get out of Bed with management and rub their eyes a bit, fatigue and abusive rostering would be history.
But isnt that PRECISELY why we need legislation?? So that it's NOT up to the whims of a Union in Bed with management, and the FAA failing to exercise their regulatory authority?
We can wander around in a futile quest like Diogenes searching for an 'Honest Man' or we can enact (yes, yet another bloody law) but maybe with teeth to enforce what almost honest men will not
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