Comment by shiroiushi

2 years ago

>If the government can’t regulate spam then what could it be expected to regulate.

The (US) government does an excellent job of regulating many things, such as commercial airplane design and construction. Oh wait...

> The (US) government does an excellent job of regulating many things, such as commercial airplane design and construction

If the US government wanted a healthy industry, they would have bought one or otherwise directed actual competition. Instead we only have Boeing, which taxpayers also subsidized, which seems incompetent and unwilling to acknowledge fault, which seems to be generally a gargantuan waste of taxpayer dollars compared to a properly efficient and reliable no-profit outfit.

I don't understand what this has to do with spam.

  • I have no idea what you are trying to say, but you appear not to know that the McDonnell Douglas merger was forced upon Boeing by the US government as a ‘cheap’ way to save McDonalds Douglass. Boeing didn’t really have a choice in the matter.

    It would be highly improbable that the people making those kinds of decisions could successfully regulate an airline industry, or even the much easier task of spam.

    The US government has also gone to great lengths to protect Boeing from competition by boxing out concord, canadian aircraft, and embraer . I think such companies like Boeing should be considered for-profit arms of the government instead of independent corporations.