The Trouble With Promises

 I sat and looked upon this new story....the Biden pick for Secretary of the DOT (Department of Transportation).....former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

'Mayor Pete' came out quickly to 'promise' to fight racial, economic, and environmental injustice within DOT.

So I sat there for a while pondering this.

This department has six key areas which you as the 'boss' are supposed to protect people upon:

1.  You need to ensure roads and bridges around the nation are safe.  Not half-safe....where six bridges a year collapse yearly and kill 200-odd people.

2.  You need to ensure the railway system is functionally safe and derailments are awful rare.

3.  You need to ensure airports are secure....meaning 'bad-boys' don't get through the system and board planes.

4.  You need to set standards where planes take off and safely land with passengers and cargo.

5.  You need to ensure seaports are safely operated and no hazardous events occur.

6.  You need to ensure ferries and river-going vessels are operated in a safe fashion, and no stupid accidents occur. 

Racial wrongs?  Economic injustice?  Environmental issues?

Are you going to monster-up various new regulations that drive ticket prices on airlines, buses, or ferries up by 25-percent?  

Correcting what racial wrongs?  Are you going to give away 100,000 free airline tickets monthly....to minority groups?  

You just start looking at his promise business, and wonder where exactly this is going.  People generally have this expectation of things working.....very few accidents, and feeling safe as you walk onto a plane or ferry.  

Maybe it's just all BS on the promise business, but I have this crazy feeling that airline tickets and ferry rides over the next four years will go up by 25-percent. 

As a co-worker used to comment to me twenty years ago...."just do your job".