Leverage and professional integrity are created through maintaining a high level of professional standards and a barrier to entry. Look at every other highly respected profession as an example. Industry management is playing the long game in systematically dismantling this profession. They have successfully done so through eroding standards and now stand poised to dismantle a large part of our barrier to entry. Virtually every response I have heard dismissing 8-F-12 as a threat to our profession has seemingly been forged by either fear of the future of our economy or greed in the short term. It's my contention that, if this TA is voted in with this language, we will have used the greatest leverage we have ever had to ensure new never have it again.

Flame on, but please do so with substantive points that push back against the threat this language poses to our profession.