Well, when you said, 'we,' you didn't make those agreements. Flagler made those agreements.

You're going to require these local governments to maintain these crossings forever, yet your train is not going to stop in any of these communities.

Shouldn't we open up the process to reexamine the safety issues in collaboration with the public?

I know that has been one of the latest, you know, things that they have thrown out from saying absolutely, positively there will never, ever, ever be a stop in this high-speed rail.

Do we want to sacrifice--and I think the answer is no from my standpoint--the safety of our local residents for your profit and convenience?

Shouldn't the capital and operating costs of safety equipment be paid for by Brightline, the people who benefit from it?

This is basically an unfunded mandate from the Federal Government on local government, something that we always swear that we won't do.

The Seniors Tax Simplification Act is a simple, commonsense solution, which would provide a measure of relief for our senior citizens.

And I don't know even if it is even remotely true, but there have been posts and there have been statements to the effect that some of the principals in this cargo company might be terrorist sympathetic in one way or another.

I am thinking that the entry of a firm like this with uncertain relationships to terrorist organizations should be reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

It staggers the imagination that our government approved and purchased security software from Russia's Kaspersky Labs.