Lakeview 2020 Wrote:
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> Free enterprise would not be on board. STB mission
> is anything but free enterprise, they are a
> regulator and regulators believe their duty is
> also to protect the established entities they
> regulate.

Now that we seem to have lost most of our most basic moral bearings as a republic, and have adopted the Ayn Rand atheistic philosophy that has rewritten the ten commandments (thou shall lie, thou shall steal, thou shall kill-if it keeps Boeing management on track to meet their quarterly stock target price, and get their bonus's...) that might seem to be increasingly true.

It does sometimes seem like we are living in an in an increasingly oligopolistic political kleptocracy, like Putin's kleptocracy. Where our politicians are really in the business of issuing "hunting licenses", for "pay to play" political pay offs, now laundered in the millions, anonymously, often using tax exempt front groups, which allow the holders to prey upon consumers and workers, than anything that resembles a transparent, open, competitive, fair, and thus, truly "free" markets...

And, it does explain a lot....

So what are you doing about it?