Where Is Aviation Heading?

Hi Readers - I'm getting more than concerned about Aviation - where we are, so many problems, and where are we going with total aviation. I look at aviation as an industry, a way of life, our primary mode of travel, a huge conglomeration of businesses - airplanes, scheduled and nonscheduled Airlines, General Aviation (GA), cargo and Part 135 flights, airports, associations, schools, and other elements.
In almost all aspects we now have problems of regulation, de-regulation, high taxes, and most irritating, the high fuel prices. The grand regulator of our flying, the FAA - tells us what we can do, how we do it and when - is underfunded, supposedly understaffed, and constantly under pressure to perform, to encourage aviation while regulating it, and charged with a never-ending problem of safety of flight. Have we given FAA a total workload that cannot be handled effectively and efficiently?
The development of aircraft and technical equipment is equally important - the problems created faster than the development and use of the advanced equipment to handle an ever-increasing number of aircraft in flight at any one time and the separation and safety of these aircraft in flight. An can certain elements of aviation, such as GA, afford the cost of the advanced equipment now available, in the interest of inflight collision and terrain avoidance?
Our Air Lines are crowding the same traffic hubs, terminals, and airports in the interest of their own economies, and are using surcharges as a method of recovering sky-rocketing fuel and other costs which normally would be their own costs of doing business. Travelling passengers are forced to swallow numerous delays and odd routing of flights to get to their destinations, and are totally frustrated by lack of pertinent information, delays, and misplaced and lost baggage.
Adding to this mess of confluence, our Congress, democratic or republican, which is aware of many of these problems, is sitting on it's "duff" ( not to say they all are not working at something) awaiting the political outcome of the next 4 years of presidency.
Who am I to critisize - well, I'm one of those taxpayers who believe I'm paying my share, or more than my share, of the total tax burden, and; in the interest of overseeing aviation, which I point out that Congress is charged with doing, I can see some of the glaring areas of fault. At present, I do not like what I see and I want changes made for the better in the future for my and your aviation. And I'm here to do my part. Keep checking my Website.
The April NTSB accouting of Accidents/Incidents will be coming up shortly.
Thanks for listening. Robert Shaw.