The McWane situation did in fact have something to do with the Bush Administration as it took the dumping incident in the Delaware river and the Publication of the NYtimes article and the Frontline episode for the Justice Department to take action. Bush’s OSHA appointee is on film basically saying they’ll do nothing.

On standards, sure they should be universal, but the lack of existing standards in other places is no excuse for poor standards here.

And Frankly I’ll take no plane over one that will break up in flight or have other serious structural or mechanical issues…. You think the fact they ignored an FAA directive for years and the FAA allowed it to happen is acceptable?

secondly, the reason that the environmental, health and safety fines related to notices of violation don’t amount to much, is because they’re already monumentally larger then those imposed by the countries we compete with. we entered into crappy trade agreements that set us in competition with other countries with no OSHA and no EPA and we’re already in a losing situation. congress knows that they can’t make it worse. if we’re going to give more power to OSHA and EPA, we first need to break the current trade agreements and establish new ones that force competing countries to mirror our environmental, health and safety requirements. that’s the only way that america can stay strong. production is what made this country number 1, all the production we’re sending to china is what’s setting them on the path to surpassing us as the number one economy.

and about the south west thing… you’re bitching about their planes not being inspected frequently enough, but you’d be bitching if they grounded them, and you’d be bitching if they hired more inspectors and raised their prices. nobody got hurt here, don’t take it out of perspective here tough guy…