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Isn't this post hoc ergo propter hoc? E.g. > The staffing issue at FAA dates back to 1981 when air traffic controllers went on strike and President Reagan fire
by robertlagrant 3y ago
Isn't this post hoc ergo propter hoc? E.g.
> The staffing issue at FAA dates back to 1981 when air traffic controllers went on strike and President Reagan fired them en masse. Subsequent hiring created a retirement wave around 2005 that the agency has long struggled to address.
The retirement wave just means that they didn't hire to plan for succession properly. That's not a union task. And many presidents have come and gone between Reagan and now; it seems strange not to mention that and talk as though he set in motion an unswervable chain of events.