I’m not so sure the US health system is the best example you could choose to illustrate dysfunction vice publicly-run institutions...

Competent leadership requires money to hire competent leaders.

When your funding results in you hiring from the bottom of the barrel, you’ll get some bad judgement in there.

Poor funding means you hire whoever you can get. More funding = (potentially) better hiring.

Manpower and training both take money. For most of the past thirty years we’ve had a Congress that is more than happy to cut regulatory agencies to the bone, and now we are reaping what we’ve sown.

“Get rid of everybody, burn it all down, and start again from the top.”

“Of course, you’d expect NHTSA, being the watchdog that it is, to see through all the lies and misdirection and immediately call the companies out on their crap. Except they don’t. For reasons that are unclear.”

Can I order a special edition with even more front overhang? That looks like only three feet or so, I need at least five feet of my car ahead of the front wheels.

So does a Camry

Corporate malfeasance leading to numerous deaths = OK

But the US economy is practically founded on lying and forging documentation for personal gain..... this sounds like some suspiciously un-American talk!!!

Yes, but these people aren’t mobsters, they’re job creators!

Sure, but the jeans salesman didn’t take the pants I wore to the store for an “appraisal” and refuse to give them back until we could fill out a four-quadrant sheet detailing the financing for the new jeans that I only wanted to take a look at and get a price for.

Thank you for posting this. What a line.

Agree, the sportcross looks like a melting WRX

Engineer’s OCD resulting in not reading pertinent text. Who would have expected such a thing!?

Ah, I see you must not be much of a Jalopnik visitor.

For your information, the supreme court has roundly rejected prior restraint!

Lol, if you’re not trolling you are ludicrously insane.

You really “get” jalopnik. Well played.