Comments on: FAA Whistleblower Says He Was Threatened

Tells Congress Agency Viewed Airlines More Like "Customers" Than Companies To Be Regulated

[ramos937]

As a retired federal employee, I can say that 90% of federal works are honest good employees. However, there are rotten apples.

The best way to end retaliation is to identify the FAA managers that not only did not do their jobs but hindered the inspectors. Those people should then be indicted and punished. Instead, most of the time, they are retained and at times, promoted. This has to change.

[pfd572]

Now, now, now. You know how it is. Conservative leaders preach "collateral damage" and "acceptable losses". Its all about increasing the bottom line and benefiting the top levels. Deregulation has been nothing but a joke for everyone except the CEOS''. How can you really expect an industry to self-regulate? Its an oxymoron. How does Bush, Cheney, Republican leaders, et al, sit around smoking their Cuban cigars (Executive Privilege), drinking scotch and checking each others bank accts. Sick, sadistic MF''s.

[drbonkers]

brianbwb:

Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA)is not Southwest Airlines.

Wanna try that one again?

[brianbwb-2009]

"Soutwest Air has the best safety record in the business. One (1) fatility since it began business back in the 1970s..." Posted by TracyMorg_an

"Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182, registration N533PS, was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner that collided over San Diego, California with a private Cessna 172 on September 25, 1978. The death toll of 144 makes it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Californian history to date, and it was the first Pacific Southwest Airlines incident involving fatalities. It was also the deadliest plane crash in the history of the United States until American Airlines Flight 191 went down eight months later..."

Wanna try that one again?

[andor3]

andrew_693 said: and we thought that business took care of itself if we left it unregulated or unchecked."

It DOES... they made money, paid for the CEOs big bonuses. Oh sure, they may have risked the life of a few thousand people and flown a few planes they should have grounded, but you know... money is what matters most right? And the people at risk were not rich or anything; it is a discount airline, so they are expendable. Vote Republican and support the Reagan/Bush/Bush brand of consrvative philosophy for more of the same!

[andrew_693]

and we thought that business took care of itself if we left it unregulated or unchecked. Thank god not everyone is so naive.

[bgwinnett]

Lucky if they were Airbus''s they would have fallen out of the sky.

[wogerwabbit]

Chairman Oberstar said as long as the FAA views the airlines as customers "that culture of safety will not take hold and is not going to permeate the organization."

This is the way our whole freakin'' government is run thanks to Bush and his brain-dead Republican zombies. They think life is cheap unless you''re ''un-born'', worship profit and pose themselves as patriotic in an attempt to cover their sins. Let me assure you, if the God they profess to believe in truly had His will be done, we''ll all be cheering as the Bushwackers climb the gallows and free the world of their evil. Amen.

[sgtrds]

We seem to be going the way of the Roman Empire, Not a very good thought is it?

Posted by rebelscout at 08:07 PM : Apr 03, 2008

Mixing in some Nazism too. The corrupt right wing tried to send a popular Alabama governor to prison in retaliation, so they''re just one small step away from "disappearing" people that they don''t like.

[rushlimpdrug]

Freakin'' Bast*rds
I am soooo sick of this worthless bush, repubs, and do nothing congress.
I''ve been voting for anyone not in office.
These azzzholes don''t give a ratzz azzz about anything.
They investigate Roger the baseball player with a q-tip
and superficially look at flight inspections waaaaay late in the game.
Bunch of Freakin'' Reeeetards!