NoMasWetbacks wrote:

You are the President. You can make one major decision that
will improve civil aviation in America.

What would you do?

I would take immediate action and do the following:

1) seal the borders... whatever it takes, its a national security matter.
As president I have taken an oath to protect and defend this country
from such a potentioal threats. 911 happened because the government
failed in its obligations to know who was here, if they were here legally
and what they were doing. The result affected aviation greatly and
the economy in general. Until we get this situation under control the
border must be protected. A country with no borders is not a country.

2) Provide clear leardership in the quest to be more energy independent.
This means doing a number of things in concert and immediately not
giving lip service. We need to explore and develop our own oil reserves
which will make us less dependent upon middle east oil, thus stabilizing
and putting downward pressure on world oil markets and putting Americans
to work. In tandem we need to build additional nuclear power plants
and a new refinery or two to reduce the bottlenecks in distribution.
Reduce the mirad of laws requiring so many dofferent blends of gasoline
to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. The cost of fuel has a
major and direct impact on aviation, and our depences on foreign oil
and propensity to do NOTHING empowers foreign roque governments with
the net result that we end up being held hostage to our owm ineptitude.

3) Reduce the size of government immediately. Every dollar that the US
government sucks out of the economy is less people have to spend at
their own discression and thus hurts the economy, aviation business
included.