Yet another instance where the deliberate gutting of our manufacturing sector to reduce the power of the middle class (read the 1992 Rio Accordes) has come back to bite us. An engineer at an airplane engine repair facility will not fly because pins and bolts sheet during engine testing and shortcuts are taken to cut engine repair costs. The sheering issue began when the manufacturing of metal hardware was outsourced to Mexico, where they use inferior metal to make cheaper nuts, bolts, etc. anyone who has used a hammer or inserted a screw in the last 20 years has experienced the problem with shredding or bending screws and nails.
Boeing is analogous with the US - literally falling apart at the seams.
A cost-free option to restore quality control at Boeing is to end the DEI culture there. Return to meritocracy. In fact cost-free is probably a worst case. More likely you would get cost savings as well as quality improvement. Is meritocracy too radical an idea even for the Cato Institute now?
DEI is destroying the US from the inside out, company by company. The effect of it isn't just to waste funds on silly things (and they do waste 10s of millions per large co.). It's also to put people into roles they can't perform. And it shifts the culture from having one overarching companywide mission and vision to having dozens of little identity-group specific missions and visions. Both of which cause good, competent people to lose interest in their work and slack off. Knowing you can't get ahead b/c of your skin color is kind of dispiriting for the work ethic. Which causes degradation of both products and service. It's a cancer and we're seeing its effects all around us as everything falls apart. DEI is the "regulation" Cato should be shouting about.
And the whole "but cars are more dangerous" is a ridiculous straw man argument. Flying and driving are not interchangeable forms of transport. They serve different purposes. We also know why driving is dangerous; it isn't because cars are falling apart. And a lot of the inherent danger is under one's own control, unlike air travel. Given the geographic size of the US and wide distribution of the population, cars aren't going anywhere. The libs keep trying, and failing. Not sure why Cato is joining them in that crusade.
Frankly, all these think tanks seem to be stuck in the 1960s or '70s. If they want to be relevant, they need to talk about stuff that impacts real people, in real ways, today: DEI; illegal immigration; government crushing SMALL businesses and citizens while propping up big ones and giving them monopolies; literal infanticide being the (D) party platform. Not vague boogeymen like "regulation" against too-big-to-fail MiC contractors.
By eliminating grading standards in American schools, we have irreparably dumbed down our education system in the good old USA. None of us want to see a doctor who thinks he was an A+ student in Medical School. We want to trust our health to a doctor who was an A+ student in Medical School. The world has seen this disaster movie of the phantom Empire many times before. Oh America, I hardly know yee. Obey The Pug!
The problem is solved by making sure that the FAA Inspectors charged with overseeing Boeing's quality control properly enforce existing regulations, instead of looking the other way in return for special favors conferred upon the Inspectors by Boeing.
Much like the SEC, the FAA has become another captured regulator.
Quiet an interesting article. I would like to include the following.
Flying has become a real pain in the butt. Being in an airport these days makes me feel like herded cattle.
Where are the railroads in all of this? US railroads have deteriorated to a state of almost comatose existence, and the airline industry lobbies are responsible.
Travel by rail in Europe and you will understand.
Efficient train travel would take people off the roads.
The CVD debacle have removed the most experienced and probably the best workers via early retirement, injury or death. Who replaces them....inexperienced people!!
I’d be interested in a dispassionate study of the effects of 1) offshoring and 2) diversity hiring practices in the aerospace industry. It’s sure different now than when I worked in aerospace…
Boeing murders whistleblowers. Boeing bribes the government. Boeing will be bailed out if necessary. Boeing has intentionally cut corners (self-certifying mechanics) because they won’t pay the consequences. To do things well costs more money. And our system rewards doing things poorly. So now we can’t have safe aircraft because our version of state sponsored corporatism is incapable of delivering quality goods. Our cars break on purpose. Our phones break on purpose. Our shoes break on purpose. Our food is trash. Our medicine is poison. Why? Because trash is more profitable than quality. This is the great lie of progress, that everything is getting better, when in reality it is just more voluminous and more profitable. Quality is always going down, because that correlates to increased bottom line. Late stage corporatism is just to have so many regulations that competition is impossible and then when the company stops being a company the taxpayer is the backstop and we’ve arrived at corporatist fascism. I think we probably live in a society that is too low trust to have reliable airplanes. There are too many grubby fingers that want a piece of the pie.
Ans when you out source your quality control to other countries to keep your cost of labor down when those laborers are more skilled at picking fruit, pool cleaning or landscaping you know there's a problem.
The US State Dept is run the same way. Ukrainians get broken on purpose to further the "rules based order." Why would anyone believe the "values" honored by Boeing or the State Dept. generate different results ?
It would probably go a long way and be a cheaper fix to restart merit hiring. They went big on DEI, moved qualified people out based on skin color, sex preference, etc. We own a diesel repair shop. What happens if we replace our technicians who are trained on each individual engine with people who are parts changers bit don't know how to diagnose? We lose business because drivers keep breaking down when they leave, if they don't have a wreck and kill someone.
Think about to big to fail. Boeing gets hit with a 250 million dollar penalty by the Feds for their occupational malpractice in the d eath of hundreds yet Alex Jones (whether you like him or not)gets fined billions in a civil case involving family feelings in the Sandy Hook incident. Last I read Alex never killed anybody. Not even driving on the road.
And here I was thinking that you were going to say the highways are more dangerous because of landing gear falling from the skies. Boing (Boeing) is just another example of an empire in its final days, where nothing works any more.
Simply put.. They should hang a couple bosses to shake the pyramid and change the firm culture. No more untouchables.. The former boss guilty for the max debacle? First one. The snake smell from the head, but it's the same head that's in cahoots with the politicians and the revolving doors policy.. So.. They won't do anything
What’s the opposite of a “stock buyback?” Maybe the costs of QA and safety protocols could be funded by simply raising money for the company instead of funneling illegal profits to the shareholders.
And, what about increased investment in mass transit? We've been trying to get high speed rail built in the Texas Triangle for years. This would take a lot of cars off the already overcrowded roads. The options aren't just air vs road.
The "severe shortage" of Air Traffic Controllers is entirely a DEI imposed problem. Prior to the Obama Administration there was no shortage of ATC's. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, Obama declared that the graduating classes of ATC's was too "white".
Not to mention the fact they rejiggered the test to make it easier for people of color and for people who like to have sex with humans other than the opposite sex.
This is what you get when you vote for Democrats, plain and simple.
Take the train. Avoid both problems. More relaxing. Faster than a car. Cheaper than car + gas + means + hotel (go first class & get a bed, shower, meals…), give yourself downtime to think, teach your kids to deal with quietly & politely sitting… worked for me as a kid, pre-Amtrak, worked for my wife & me on a two-week jaunt around the country last summer. Take the train.
Government creates so many unintended consequences that sometimes I wonder if there are any intended consequences.
Government EXISTS to create problem they can campaign to solve. If we had no problems, how would they get elected?
Yet another instance where the deliberate gutting of our manufacturing sector to reduce the power of the middle class (read the 1992 Rio Accordes) has come back to bite us. An engineer at an airplane engine repair facility will not fly because pins and bolts sheet during engine testing and shortcuts are taken to cut engine repair costs. The sheering issue began when the manufacturing of metal hardware was outsourced to Mexico, where they use inferior metal to make cheaper nuts, bolts, etc. anyone who has used a hammer or inserted a screw in the last 20 years has experienced the problem with shredding or bending screws and nails.
Boeing is analogous with the US - literally falling apart at the seams.
A cost-free option to restore quality control at Boeing is to end the DEI culture there. Return to meritocracy. In fact cost-free is probably a worst case. More likely you would get cost savings as well as quality improvement. Is meritocracy too radical an idea even for the Cato Institute now?
DEI is destroying the US from the inside out, company by company. The effect of it isn't just to waste funds on silly things (and they do waste 10s of millions per large co.). It's also to put people into roles they can't perform. And it shifts the culture from having one overarching companywide mission and vision to having dozens of little identity-group specific missions and visions. Both of which cause good, competent people to lose interest in their work and slack off. Knowing you can't get ahead b/c of your skin color is kind of dispiriting for the work ethic. Which causes degradation of both products and service. It's a cancer and we're seeing its effects all around us as everything falls apart. DEI is the "regulation" Cato should be shouting about.
And the whole "but cars are more dangerous" is a ridiculous straw man argument. Flying and driving are not interchangeable forms of transport. They serve different purposes. We also know why driving is dangerous; it isn't because cars are falling apart. And a lot of the inherent danger is under one's own control, unlike air travel. Given the geographic size of the US and wide distribution of the population, cars aren't going anywhere. The libs keep trying, and failing. Not sure why Cato is joining them in that crusade.
Frankly, all these think tanks seem to be stuck in the 1960s or '70s. If they want to be relevant, they need to talk about stuff that impacts real people, in real ways, today: DEI; illegal immigration; government crushing SMALL businesses and citizens while propping up big ones and giving them monopolies; literal infanticide being the (D) party platform. Not vague boogeymen like "regulation" against too-big-to-fail MiC contractors.
And he didn’t even mention their years-late Starliner still stuck in space over a month after it (foolishly) was launched for an 8-day mission…
By eliminating grading standards in American schools, we have irreparably dumbed down our education system in the good old USA. None of us want to see a doctor who thinks he was an A+ student in Medical School. We want to trust our health to a doctor who was an A+ student in Medical School. The world has seen this disaster movie of the phantom Empire many times before. Oh America, I hardly know yee. Obey The Pug!
Well, the first step to get back America as a whole would be to jail Larry and his accolades, but who dares?
The problem isn't solved with more regulation.
The problem is solved by making sure that the FAA Inspectors charged with overseeing Boeing's quality control properly enforce existing regulations, instead of looking the other way in return for special favors conferred upon the Inspectors by Boeing.
Much like the SEC, the FAA has become another captured regulator.
Quiet an interesting article. I would like to include the following.
Flying has become a real pain in the butt. Being in an airport these days makes me feel like herded cattle.
Where are the railroads in all of this? US railroads have deteriorated to a state of almost comatose existence, and the airline industry lobbies are responsible.
Travel by rail in Europe and you will understand.
Efficient train travel would take people off the roads.
The CVD debacle have removed the most experienced and probably the best workers via early retirement, injury or death. Who replaces them....inexperienced people!!
Air travel these days...no thanks!
Agree with some: I flew about 150K mi/yr for about 15 yrs - pre-9/11. I hate flying nowadays.
The nickel and diming is what gets me. The airlines have been driving customers onto the roads for a couple decades now
I’d be interested in a dispassionate study of the effects of 1) offshoring and 2) diversity hiring practices in the aerospace industry. It’s sure different now than when I worked in aerospace…
Boeing murders whistleblowers. Boeing bribes the government. Boeing will be bailed out if necessary. Boeing has intentionally cut corners (self-certifying mechanics) because they won’t pay the consequences. To do things well costs more money. And our system rewards doing things poorly. So now we can’t have safe aircraft because our version of state sponsored corporatism is incapable of delivering quality goods. Our cars break on purpose. Our phones break on purpose. Our shoes break on purpose. Our food is trash. Our medicine is poison. Why? Because trash is more profitable than quality. This is the great lie of progress, that everything is getting better, when in reality it is just more voluminous and more profitable. Quality is always going down, because that correlates to increased bottom line. Late stage corporatism is just to have so many regulations that competition is impossible and then when the company stops being a company the taxpayer is the backstop and we’ve arrived at corporatist fascism. I think we probably live in a society that is too low trust to have reliable airplanes. There are too many grubby fingers that want a piece of the pie.
Ans when you out source your quality control to other countries to keep your cost of labor down when those laborers are more skilled at picking fruit, pool cleaning or landscaping you know there's a problem.
The US State Dept is run the same way. Ukrainians get broken on purpose to further the "rules based order." Why would anyone believe the "values" honored by Boeing or the State Dept. generate different results ?
It would probably go a long way and be a cheaper fix to restart merit hiring. They went big on DEI, moved qualified people out based on skin color, sex preference, etc. We own a diesel repair shop. What happens if we replace our technicians who are trained on each individual engine with people who are parts changers bit don't know how to diagnose? We lose business because drivers keep breaking down when they leave, if they don't have a wreck and kill someone.
Think about to big to fail. Boeing gets hit with a 250 million dollar penalty by the Feds for their occupational malpractice in the d eath of hundreds yet Alex Jones (whether you like him or not)gets fined billions in a civil case involving family feelings in the Sandy Hook incident. Last I read Alex never killed anybody. Not even driving on the road.
And here I was thinking that you were going to say the highways are more dangerous because of landing gear falling from the skies. Boing (Boeing) is just another example of an empire in its final days, where nothing works any more.
Simply put.. They should hang a couple bosses to shake the pyramid and change the firm culture. No more untouchables.. The former boss guilty for the max debacle? First one. The snake smell from the head, but it's the same head that's in cahoots with the politicians and the revolving doors policy.. So.. They won't do anything
What’s the opposite of a “stock buyback?” Maybe the costs of QA and safety protocols could be funded by simply raising money for the company instead of funneling illegal profits to the shareholders.
And, what about increased investment in mass transit? We've been trying to get high speed rail built in the Texas Triangle for years. This would take a lot of cars off the already overcrowded roads. The options aren't just air vs road.
The "severe shortage" of Air Traffic Controllers is entirely a DEI imposed problem. Prior to the Obama Administration there was no shortage of ATC's. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, Obama declared that the graduating classes of ATC's was too "white".
They actually refused employment for nearly 1000 white folks who had passed the quite rigorous FAA test. Since then, about 2014, the FAA has struggled to have enough controllers, running at about 75% of what they need. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/faa-lawsuit-claims-agency-discriminated-against-air-traffic-controller-applicants-on-the-basis-of-race/ar-AA1nGypL
Not to mention the fact they rejiggered the test to make it easier for people of color and for people who like to have sex with humans other than the opposite sex.
This is what you get when you vote for Democrats, plain and simple.
Take the train. Avoid both problems. More relaxing. Faster than a car. Cheaper than car + gas + means + hotel (go first class & get a bed, shower, meals…), give yourself downtime to think, teach your kids to deal with quietly & politely sitting… worked for me as a kid, pre-Amtrak, worked for my wife & me on a two-week jaunt around the country last summer. Take the train.
Boeing and Intel are failing companies that are kept afloat only from welfare checks from Uncle Sugar.