One Thing Is Always Constant

In previous posts concerning the latest round of our national and ongoing air travel security debacle I have noted that those people who work for the intelligence apparatus – as was also true in the case of the project manager for the Columbia, who just didn’t want to hear that bad news one of her engineers was trying to tell her about the fact that the shuttle couldn’t get back through the atmosphere – are all getting their paychecks every pay period and are accumulating their retirement funds and are getting their high quality health care.

Now we have the Toyota accelerator debacle. I just heard some musing about “where was the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in its oversight of this problem?” The problem, after all, dates back to some Lexus cars in 1999. But until Toyota finally had to buckle in the face of an avalanche of incidents and 19 deaths, the silence has been deafening.

I think we can without a doubt say that those people – the NHTSA – have all been and are continuing to get their paychecks every pay period, are accumulating their retirement funds and are getting their high quality health care.

How nice.