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How Did Things Ever Get This Bad?

"All bad precedents began as justifiable measures."
Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.)

 The FAA came into being in the late 1950s in response to a series of mid-air collisions between passenger airliners. It was clear that post-war technology and market forces had out-paced regulation. FAA was tasked with establishing and enforcing rules for aircraft maintenance and operation, as well establishing an air traffic control system for managing aircraft in flight.

This was all well and good. But like any good bureaucracy, FAA felt the need to grow and to control more things. This situation was exacerbated by Congress foolishly giving FAA a second, conflicting mission of promoting the aviation industry in the United States. Although Congress woke up and specifically removed  the promotion task from FAA in the 1990s, the well-entrenched bureaucrats, conditioned by decades of being the puppets of the aviation lobbies chose to ignore Congress.

Fifty years of experience with FAA has taught us two things. First, that the American people want local control over the kinds and intensity of aeronautical activities within their communities. Second that FAA holds the American people in contempt and exists to service its true masters, the aviation industry.

Clearly at this point FAA needs a good house-cleaning. Those bureaucrats who are not willing to act in the public interest or to obey the people through the directives of our Congress should be ushered quickly and without apology out the door.