Statement from the former Commissioner of Consumer Protection 2-13-18
"After the 2nd crash I could not believe that the Max planes were not grounded. And even though there was an Israeli, Israel will continue to support Trump.
Even though there is now a temporary grounding in place, can we trust President Trump, knowing Boeing’s president was one of the parade of supplicants who visited him at Mar-a-Lago, knowing that he has installed a former Boeing executive as the acting secretary of defense, and knowing Boeing gave $1 million to his inaugural committee?
That is where
we are in this country right now. The Republicans who have controlled
the federal government these past two years have been so maniacally
focused on “deregulation’’ that they refuse to see how critically
important federal safety regulations are to each of us individually and
to our economy as a whole. And in their zeal to deregulate, they have
allowed the very industries most in need of uniform safety regulations
to take over the federal agencies formed for the purpose of protecting
consumers.
The result is stark:
We no longer trust the words or actions of our federal safety agencies to protect us in the ways we have come to expect over the past many decades. The chaos in the White House and Congress over the past two years has provided a distraction from the administration’s steady and frighteningly effective destruction of consumer protections in most of our federal agencies, whose very purpose for decades has been to protect American consumers. The foxes are definitely in charge of the hen houses; the regulated control the regulators...
...Marietta S. Robinson was commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 2013 to 2018...."
The result is stark:
We no longer trust the words or actions of our federal safety agencies to protect us in the ways we have come to expect over the past many decades. The chaos in the White House and Congress over the past two years has provided a distraction from the administration’s steady and frighteningly effective destruction of consumer protections in most of our federal agencies, whose very purpose for decades has been to protect American consumers. The foxes are definitely in charge of the hen houses; the regulated control the regulators...
...Marietta S. Robinson was commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 2013 to 2018...."
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