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jen20yesterday at 4:00 PM1 replyview on HN

There have been six presidents who could have addressed this since Reagan. Every one of them shoulders some of the responsibility.


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_ph_yesterday at 4:05 PM

Yes, they should all have taken actions. But also, it is much more difficult to fix something broken once the damage has settled in. I guess none of them was willing to risk the disruption a fix would have caused. And the system seemed to have held up for quite a while. Weren't there some mass firings of ATC personal at the beginning of the Trump presidency?

The bottom line is: don't break things that are difficult or impossible to fix.

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