Did NHSTA Speed Up Rollover Ratings to Aid Clintons Personal Injury Lawyer Friends?
by Kevin Martin Have I got a deal for you. Want to buy a new car designed by federal bureaucrats? What, no takers? No wonder! Designing anything – be it welfare systems or the postal service – isn’t the forte of the vast army of paper shufflers who show up each day at government offices in the nation’s capital and its affluent environs. After all, the welfare system they came up with doomed millions of people who could have been hard-working, productive citizens to the indignity of low self-esteem and subsistence living. The postal system would be out of business if it actually had to compete with private sector rivals such as UPS or yahoo.com. Imagine then what a federal agency might manage to do with a sophisticated piece of technology such as a motor vehicle with its more than 15,000 parts and equivalent number of fuel mileage mandates, safety requirements and pollution controls. It would be akin to reviving the East German auto industry – or perhaps worse. Which brings us to the Na