The American \”revolving door\” behind Boeing\’s \”safety door\”

For a long time, Boeing\’s profit-centered orientation has caused Boeing to compress and simplify company management, R&D and production, resulting in defects in aircraft production and manufacturing.

Despite this, Boeing is still making a lot of money, which is also related to the regulatory failure of the US government departments.

For decades, in order to save money, the Federal Aviation Administration has been outsourcing some of the aircraft safety certification work that should be performed by regulatory agencies to aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing. Being a referee again”. And many \”referees\” may still be former employees of the US government.

Former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation Schiavo:One day you\’re auditing airplanes and the next day you\’re working for an airline. You can\’t scrutinize the industry too strictly, otherwise you won\’t get such a good job after leaving the regulatory agency.

The \”revolving door\” is a classic example of collusion between politics and business in the United States, where one becomes an official and the other is a businessman. It not only has internal rotation, but also external rotation. External rotation refers to the transfer from public office to enterprise, and internal rotation refers to the transfer from enterprise to public office.

The \”revolving door\” has a long history in the United States. Statistics show that between 1897 and 1973, an average of 76% of U.S. cabinet members were related to businesses. Now is no exception.

Military field. Austin, the current U.S. Secretary of Defense, retired as commander of Central Command in 2016 and served as a board member of Raytheon and other companies.

Financial field. Signature Bank of America, which was shut down last year, its directorsAmong the committee members is Barney Frank, former chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.

Pharmaceutical field.

Jordon Walker, director of Pfizer R&D in the United States:Pfizer is a \”revolving door\” for all government officials. Yes, this is true in any industry. In the pharmaceutical industry, the regulators who review our drugs end up working for pharmaceutical companies. The same is true for the military. Military and defense officials will eventually work in private defense companies.

Undercover reporter: What do you think of this \”revolving door\”?

Jordon Walker, head of Pfizer R&D in the United States:To be honest, this is of course great for the industry, but it is terrible for the rest of the United States.

Undercover reporter: Why is it so bad for other Americans?

Director of R&D Department of Pfizer, USA JORDEN WALKER:Because the regulators who review our drugs, you know when they no longer do regulatory work, they will come to work for the pharmaceutical companies, and of course they will not be strict with the companies that gave them jobs.

In addition to regulating, many American politicians are also willing to become corporate lobbyists, traveling within the government to \”waving the flag and shouting\” for the companies they serve.

John Thune, currently the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, is one of the targets of lobbying by the U.S. railroad industry.

Before taking office, he was a lobbyist for the Dakota-Minnesota and Eastern Railroad in 2003 and 2004, earning $220,000 from it. And if we go back further, he also served as the director of the South Dakota Railroad and supervised the railroad.

In 2015, lobbyists from railroads and other industries proposed overturning Obama administration-era regulations requiring improvements to electronically controlled air braking systems on certain hazardous materials trains, saying it would bring unnecessary disruption to railroads and other industries. $3 billion cost.

Thune, who is already a senator, is public Seconded, and said that if the need for the technology cannot be proven, it will be repealed. In 2017, the Trump administration repealed this regulation.

On February 3 last year, the United States. A Norfolk Southern Railroad train carrying chemicals in Ohio The derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, resulted in the leakage of the toxic chemical vinyl chloride, followed by a so-called \”controlled burn\”, causing a serious environmental disaster

It was the Norfolk Southern Railway Company in the United States. One of the many advocates for the repeal of this legislation.

There is US media analysis, such as If this regulation still exists, the train that derailed on February 3 may have been equipped with a better braking system to reduce the risk of a large number of carriages stacking after the derailment. It is not immune.

According to \”Open Secret\” data, the air transportation industry\’s total lobbying funds in 2023 reached $102,922,106, with a total of 1,018 lobbyists working up and down, of which 65.03% are former government employees, and the number one lobbying company is Boeing.

Some American officials once said that when former leaders and former colleagues knock on the door, you will open the door for them out of dignity. When the door is opened, I don’t know what to do.

And after each election, the revolving door spins faster as lobbying firms and interest group headhunters snatch up outgoing politicians.

\”of \”the people, by the people, for the people\” comes from the speech of US President Lincoln. The original meaning is \”of the people, by the people, for the people\”, but the result…

1% of the people in the United States control 40% of the wealth , almost all US congressmen are members of the 1% when they are in office, rely on the money of the 1% for re-election, serve the 1%, and even rely on the rewards of the 1% when they leave office.

——Nobel Prize winner and economist Stiglitz

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