Sir;...Air travel is only safe considered from the average, Yet some people do not travel but rarely, and for them the worst thing about it is the sheer torture... For those who do travel everywhere by air, the odds increase of some sort of incident or fatality...But why does rail traffic lose money??? Other countries seem to be able to move their people and freight by rail... Why do we fail??? The railroads always avoided the complaining and law suit happy customers by pricing them off their trains... Since they could not move people as cattle, and with as little regard for life, they made it impossible to travel by rail... It should be a government utility...Instead, the government repeatedly capitalizes the railroads, and the railroads as quickly water the stock... They demand that they be privatized when they have sufficient capital, and then the profit is drained out of them while the capital is allowed to deteriorate unmanaged...Our railroad are our shame... Next to them are our roads, and highways... They are the great answer to cities saturated by foreigners and negroes... We move on, and leave the cities to manage their infrustructure on a shrinking tax base while we commute...When the taxes drive the industry over seas, or to our South; even the ribbons of highways become impossible to maintain...I have not left Michigan in several years...Michigan may be an exception... We have seen some road repair with the stimulus, but many thousands of miles remain a wastland of pot holes and road hazzards...There is no money... Those who profitted from the infrastructure refuse to pay for its maintainance... The whole society is like the railraods...If allowed to, the rich suck the money out of it, and then they give them back to the people to fix... Well we cannot afford to fix this crap any more... The South will find -as we have found that if you ask industry to support the infrastructure that supports it, they will flee to some other state offering the plum of new, new, and free... The price increases over time, and while everything good about America rots, the price does not get better...Capital hates government... Capitalism is anarchy...The rich want us governed; but they will not be governed, so they are more than happy to have fifty competing states and no federal government with any authority over them...I have seen the industry of Michigan depart on the backs of trains and trucks because they dared to ask for fair wages and working conditions, and for business to help support infrastructure and the police that defended them...Why should they accept that abuse when so many welcome them with open arms...Perhaps all business should relocate where the frost is not continually potholing the roads... Perhaps Michigan should become an agricultural state... But as it has, we find that farmers, like industry, refuse to support the services that support them... What if they could not get their goods to market??? What if every road was a muddy rut, or gravel nighmare??? Given the choice they have been given, the rich will never tax themselves... They will take and take, and never own their responsibilities... So take a flight, and consider that we do not all have that choice... We must all sooner or later drive, and the worse the roads are, the more dangerous our drives become... Whether it is our young, or our old, or our sick, or our infrastructure and services; all societies must support themselves out of their economy... We cannot let billions and trillions to be piled up in private hands while all about us the capital investment in people and public property is allowed to rot...We can live without rich people, but we are seeing this whole society crumbling, and rotting, and rusting away to ensure profit... It is time to rethink the fifty states, have a national plan, and demand justice from the rich in regard to the support of this society...Thanks...Sweeney