Inspection is just more big government regulation. Cut the red tape and let the market forces work.
"Chief Electrical Inspector Chan says recent quality-control checks of self-inspections revealed an alarming percentage of poor work "We've done 53 quality-control checks of these self-inspections, and only two jobs passed with no problems," says Chan. "Twenty-one of the jobs had to be redone because of major code violations—a lot of them life-threatening."
I don't know what expertise you have on this subject, but as a contractor I know this is insane, especially in the wild west contractor atmosphere that is going on in New Orleans at this time, with money flowing and every failed contractor in America migrating into the area.
These senseless drive by comments, like saying that inspectors only check to see if the fee is paid and that they don't actually inspect the work, can only be claimed by guys that know nothing about the building trades.