Larry I don’t quite agree. We underfund the FAA, so the civil servants do what they can to hold it together with duct tape. Something fails, and then we blame them. It’s a self-licking ice cream cone.
The problem is that many citizens don’t want to pay the true cost of government. This is the natural consequence. I’m not making a judgment on it, as I certainly don’t want to pay for certain arms of government whose function I disagree with. But this is the result of underfunding things.