The FAA doesn't have enough money to actually regulate airplane manufacturers and pretty much lets them regulate themselves.
When Boeing planes started falling out of the sky, all the other countries rushed to ban the questionable airplanes. The United States hesitated.
No, nothing wrong here.
Why did this happen? Two words. Tax cuts.
First, we cut funding for the FAA because, well, tax cuts. Tax cuts are always good and we don't want those pesky government regulations anyway.
It sounds good until airplanes fall out of the sky and kids start getting brain damage from lead in their drinking water, although, I guess, as those kids are mostly poor and black, it's been mostly ignored. If it happened in Utah you can bet Utahns would want to know why.
Anyhow, I guess the people on those airplanes have more money than poor, black kids in Flint, so we care when they fall out of the sky and we can't pick their remains out of the ashes.
Of course, we didn't care enough to protect Americans until we started to look bad when all the other countries banned the airplanes in question and it started to become too obvious that we care about corporate profits instead of safety.
Money talks and bulls--- walks. Tax cuts and fewer government regulations are all great, until your kids are drinking lead or you are the one incinerating as you fall out of the sky.
It's all good. No problem here.
JJ Esplin, Salt Lake City