On Feb 11, 7:21 pm, C J Campbell
wrote:
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 08:46:30 -0800, wrote
(in article .com):

All I have to say about user fees is that if they are implemented and
I am going to be nickeled and dimed to death by a bureaucratic
nightmare that adds overhead and significantly more per hour cost to
an already expensive per hour rate for flying time, I am going to hang
up my wings...

Just imagine what the per pilot cost of the FAA will be when about
200,000 pilots are driven out of the system by user fees.

User fees will stop some people from flying, but most pilots will probably be
able to cope. The thing that gets me is the unending harassment. It is enough
to make you want to become a hermit. (Actually, I tried that :-) )

I can no longer fight political battles. I am completely exhausted. You guys
will have to fight the next civil war without me -- and I am convinced that
civil war is inevitable.

For myself, things have gotten so fouled up that I can no longer get medical
insurance in the state of Washington. Thanks to Mike Lowrie's insurance
'reforms,' there are NO medical insurers willing to cover anyone who does not
work for a big corporation. Group Health and one or two others might do it
for big deductibles and premiums approaching $1000 a month. I am sick of
fighting taxing authorities, insurance companies, and everyone else who has a
hand out. When I die, what the feds don't take, the state will seize the
rest. So it is all for nothing. With problems like that, user fees are just
another gnat sting. Foo.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

I hear you, but still I won't keep flying if I have to deal with user
fees. The gas is expensive enough as it is...

Flying is a hobby for me, not a vocation. I love it but I'm not a
wealthy man. As a member of the middle class, I am falling farther
and farther behind inflation. I haven't had an increase in my salary
since 2001. Gas prices have gone way up since then, as have other
staples. Thank god I bought my house in 2000. I wouldn't be able to
afford to buy it now!

Lou Dobbs is the only journalist who even has a clue as to what is
really happening right now, and he is a voice in the wilderness. We
are being sold out by our congressmen and our business leaders...
they keep getting richer and the rest of us fall farther behind every
year.

Globalization is sucking this country dry, as are the leeches in our
government. Its going to get a lot worse before it gets better...
and it may very well come to a civil war if our economy collapses.