A fishing boat hit a big wave in Oregon yesterday. 11 died, 2 of the bodies haven't been found yet. As anyone who has dealt with boats knows, the United States Coast Guard does a lot, involving much government regulation, to attempt to prevent such tragedies. Inspections of every privately owned boat, registration of every privately owned boat, safety navigational aids, weather reports, yada, yada, yada. Then when something like this goes wrong, they rescue survivors, investigate the incident, make new rules, yada, yada, yada.
So what the fuck do we need a National Transportation Safety Board investigation for? After one agency has already spent more money than these dumb fucks were worth, send another one?
This incident appears to have only two possible nanny state answers. Either outlaw big waves, or mandate that passengers actually wear those life jackets.
How many government agencies, and how many people, will be needed to actually make a decision here, if any decision is made?
Who of us actually voted for the creation of a NTSB? Or thought, after they first heard of it, that it was for anything else but plane crashes? Where, of course, it's also totally redundant, since we have the Federal Aviation Administration to harass airplane operators.
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