Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

Uh ... not exactly what he said.

What he DID say was this:

The FAA has abdicated its historic regulatory role because its budget has been gutted to such an extent that it can't afford to hire and retain experts like it once did. In lieu of it's own people, the FAA now farms all that work out to the very companies it's supposed to be regulating. And when you trust an industry to police itself, and that industry becomes so big and powerful as to affect policy, people will die.