I worked in an abinitio program where we trained 250 hour pilots to get a Dc-9 type rating. These pilots came out with a good understanding of how to fly in airline environment by teaching them dispatch rules, decision making and how to interpret and follow the rules in an FOM. It does not take 1500 hundred hours to be proficient in operating an aircraft in the airline environment. It does take money to train these pilots and a job that will justify taking on the debt to enroll in this type of training. Until the regionals pony up for pay, no one in their right mind will sign up for it. There were people who signed up for this training without a clue to how much they were going to get paid the first few years and most of them had their parents bankrolling them. There has to be sufficient reward for anyone taking on any type of risk. It comes down to our legislators being clueless about the Airline environment and trying to fix something that only market demand will correct on its own.