Smarty wrote:

I am a retired broadcast engineer with 3 FCC licenses, 40 years of
broadcast engineering experience, a graduate electrical engineer, a
ham radio enthusiast since the 1950's, and a harsh critic of
government policies which ignore solid science and engineering
principles.
Regrettably, the FCC in recent years is a good example of decision
making by lawyers and politicians rather than by good engineers.


I think you misunderstand the roles various people play. It is the role of
the politician to decide on goals and the role of the engineer to make them
come true. Let me give you another example:

If a lawyer or accountant says "what you want cannot be done," the next
words from your mouth should be "you're fired." Lawyers, accountants, and
engineers are STAFF positions, not LINE positions. Politicians are
commanders, engineers are administrators.

When things turn out well, the politician gets the credit for setting and
achieving the goals. When things turn out poorly, the engineers will get the
blame for the failure. This is the way it has always been, this is the way
it always will be, this is the way the world works.

I don't own this railroad,
I don't ring the bell,
But let this sucker jump the tracks,
And see who catches hell.