On Jan 12, 8:14*am, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
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Given the political and legal environment of a regulatory agency, I have
a lot of trouble believing that any federal regulatory agency was *ever*
really run by non-lawyers.

Joe Gwinn

The government by its nature doesn't create, it only redistributes.
Otherwise it would be in unfair competition with the private
enterprise it's supposed to regulate fairly and even-handedly. We
don't stick to that completely, the Federal Reserve, NASA and the many
FFRDCs are in a grey area that trades philosophy for efficiency and
permanence. They inhabit the .ORG domain even if they act like .GOV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ment_ centers

Because of that the government isn't necessarily a good place for
really creative and ambitious engineers to work, unless they seek
management positions.

jsw