Really, Terry? And you claimed to support USAF aviation??? Were you actually on the line or were you just an office flunkie who spent most of his time writing a book?
What is the acceptable risk for America's kids, Terry? Please define "too safe" when it comes to drinking water, food, safety equipment like car seats, etc. What percentage of dead kids is acceptable to you?
Some examples:
During the Clinton administration the EPA lowered allowable arsenic in drinking water to 10 ppb (Parts Per Billion), from the previous standard of 50 ppb. This had no discernable effect on health as the level necessary for it being a health hazard is about 1000 times that level, as seen in say, Bandladesh.
This reduction did result in water companies that get their supply from ground water having to invest in expensive new testing equipment and filtration systems to often remove a few ppb to meet the new standards. Across about half of the US, people saw their water bills double to triple.
The ONLY REASON the EPA lowered that standard was that there was now testing equipment that could accurately measure that minute an amount of arsenic in drinking water.
The EPA did the same thing with hexavalent chromium lowering the level to 0 (zero). That too raised the cost of drinking water by a commensurate amount. For no discernable effect on health.
Or the CPSC (Consumer Products Safety Commission). At one point, they found that 9 to 13 small children a year fall into a 5-gallon bucket and drown in the liquid in the bucket. Their solution was to want to order manufacturers to put crossed sticks on the opening of those buckets. Manufacturers said that would add about $10 billion a year to the cost of 5-gallon buckets and raise inflation. The CPSC didn't care. Users said the crossed sticks would interfere with their use of these buckets for the purposes they had them for and they'd just smash them out to make the bucket useful. The CPSC replied they'd make that illegal and criminally fine people who did.
In the end, the CPSC backed down and put a label on 5-gallon buckets warning about this hazard.
Today in the US 9 to 13 children fall into a 5-gallon bucket a year and drown...
What kind of "safety device" comes with warning labels that warn you it could kill you?
Safety is first and foremost YOUR personal responsibility, not the governments or some bureaucrats. The government and bureaucrats make all sorts of insane safety rules that anyone with even basic experience and knowledge recognize as asinine. Yet, retards like YOU take everything those idiots in offices who never hammered a nail in their lifetime as gospel.