Russ,
Your job requires a very delicate balance regarding civility and free speech. "
Just would like to offer the correction that AvWeb determines what is civil and what is free within their business model, if not implied.
The First Amendment only applies to the government. Companies like Facebook and YouTube were able to ban misleading information on Covid-19 during the 2020 pandemic, as one example.
As to the questions “Where is common sense and open mindedness ?
Where is research and facts checking ?”
I suggest the prescient and somewhat terrifying book “The Origins of Totalitarianism” by Hannah Arendt. Also read the Project 2025 directives which are being implemented daily (with some pushback from Federal judges) and look what is in store for aviation if these groups get their way. Cheers
Thanks for the clarification and the book by HA.
My questions aimed towards self check by every person reading the posts.
A check list rather that helps us double check the incoming information for SA.
There is no us and them in this journey we’re all going to fail or succeed, I prefer the latter.
The tools and procedures we use in aviation are science backed, we can use them in life as well by deleting what’s harmful to our Democratic system.
Going after easy defenceless targets will fix our problems ?
Cutting food assistance for hungry poor school children will save money ?
IG’s fired unlawfully and “chainsaw” chaos sound ok to you ?
I am puzzled how all this leaves a " free country to your 4 grandchildren".
Glad to see the FAA workers reinstated. Regardless of probationary status, due process matters, especially in aviation safety roles where experience and continuity are critical. The FAA needs every capable technician and inspector they can get, letting politics or mismanagement disrupt that weakens the system. Props to the union for standing firm on this.
Clinton (Bill, that is) presided over a balance budget. He was the last worker in the position to achieve that. Maybe it’s time to terminate the probationary occupant who has demonstrated months of poor performance and give the more experienced hand a chance.
Unfortunately, the current methods of reducing the size of a bloated bureaucracy are not going to reduce the US debt, especially if they cut taxes. How ever one cuts it, we will all be taxed to pay off the national debt. There are two ways to do it: (1) Raise taxes on all of us, at the same time as lowering expenditures, or (2) let inflation run rampant, so that the national debt is paid off with cheaper debt service. The latter is a tax on everyone, whether they have the money or not. That would create a Depression the likes of which our country has never known. Oh, and why don’t we start cutting expenditures on SpaceX rockets to Mars…