It Has Hit The Fan, Big Time

The guvmint, folks, has been accused of a cover up. They are allegedly guilty of spending a few million of our—that’s mine and yours—money to fund an aviation safety study, which they then decided to hide and keep secret. Not only that, but it was one of our most visible and sometimes most admired guvmint arms—NASA. Can you believe it? Remember back when Enron et al were turning belly up and creating a stink? Correct me if I’m wrong, but seems to me many of those corporate big shots went down as much for the cover up as for the original crime. Harken back to the yesteryears of Dick Nixon and Bill Clinton. Doesn’t it seem that everyone in guvmint would know by now that hiding secrets is a big no-no with the American public? Do we so quickly forget Nixon’s “I am not a crook†and Clinton’s “I did not have…with that woman� Evidently the guvmint thought releasing the survey might risk “upsetting air travelers.†As a senior NASA official, Thomas S. Luedtke, was quoted in the same AP report, “revealing the findings could damage the public’s confidence in, and the commercial welfare of, the air carriers and general aviation companies…†In other words, the guvmint has once again assumed that they, not we, know best what is good for us, the ignorant saps who pay their salaries. To paraphrase the great bard of Avon, a pox on their house. All of this assumes, of course, that the info is true. So far, it is only alleged and reported. We’d love to post your comments. Please click the comment tab at the top.