well the government DE-REGULATED the industry and as a result, Peoples Express, Texas International, Trump Airways, Morris, to some extent Reno and Valujet, etc were born out of that. A bunch of dudes got flight time in the meantime. So.....

By the way, the industry was de-regulated due to a push by democratic senators and signed off by Carter, a democrat. Flash forward to the current climate, and Obama and company whack-jobs are basically "regulating" things again via DOJ and using the guise of that. So that shows you how the parties have come around. Obama is REGULATING healthcare basically under the guise of Obamacare and creating all sorts of reforms and hoops that local home town doctor must jump thru. Etc. soapboxing sorry.

Obama is not a dummy. He is a Harvard Grad. His IQ is not in question. He will never come out and be caught saying "I want additional regulation" as this is career suicide. However the word "reform" is accepted and associated to "lets improve things" and this has been tossed around alot. However, under Obama, Reform = Regulation. Healthcare, Firearms Laws, "Big Business practices", "unfair" (???) salaries by Wall Street types, etc. etc

Later, thread drift. Back on target