I'm amazed at how ignorant and naive the general public and congress are to this issue. People have no idea how dependent our economy is on General aviation - its impact is HUGE! That package that was overnighted from the small cargo operation or the lifeflight taking a sick passenger to better care etc. etc. User fees will drastically affect our economy and negatively affect safety for the MAJORITY of aviation as a whole. If you are unsettled by 300 hour pilots getting hired now it will only get worse because who will be able to afford training, or let alone live on a CFI's salary with user fees? I'm generally for less government and fewer taxes - however the issues of privitization and user fees is a dark path we DON"T want to go down. Its destroyed GA in other countries. Why do you think we train so many foreign pilots? Our ATC system is a PUBLIC service AND necessity! Which I firmly belive for this reason should be funded and controlled by the government! Anyone tried to call FSS lately? Privatization has worked wonders there.... I don't even bother anymore because of the excessive hold times. I think we need to pump more resources into our ATC system with upgraded equipment and decent salaries but privatization and / or user fees is NOT the answer! Resist the temptation to look down from your heavy metal 121 gig and not care for your GA brothers because we all need to stand together on this and its whats best for our country and economy. It seems only natural that upper management would want to pass all the costs they can on everyone else after gutting salaries anyway. Also face the facts in Washington, it doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum you are on there are far too many politicians that would love to cut the FAA's budget and pass that cost onto someone else other than the taxpayer, either to tout their great tax cuts or divert the funds to their own special government programs.