Dear David Smith et al. - I'm sorry if you can't read for comprehension nor for detail, or that you have a pitiable ignorance of history. Maybe you didn't get the memo about the existence of States having "Railroad Commissions", the forerunners in most States of the present-day Public Utilities Commissions? Many of these pre-dated the Interstate Commerce Act, even. I freely admit that the railroad landscape and the regulatory regime have changed out of all recognition in the last decades, but much of that was due to the Staggers Act, for which the then Class I's lobbied hard (with some justice)not the other way around.
To your other point: Did I upset your belief system a little bit? Here's a hint. I was born in Elkhart,IN. Elkhart is possibly the most Republican city and county in Indiana, a state that has been Republican since there was a Republican party, (even if it's no longer recognizable as such by comparison to, say, that of Abraham Lincoln [he'd be opposition researched and figuatively tarred and feathered by the present party, as he almost was then]) But then maybe you're a Tea Party adherent? I cannot state forcefully enough that democratic government, even in a republic, needs responsible, effective opposition. Conspiracy theorists name-callers, single-issue cranks led by fact-free blowhards (you can fill in the names, I don't do slander, as some do)do not make statesmanship nor opposition.
You are certainly entitled to disapprove of the present incumbent of the Presidency, but maybe you ought to research, just a little (go on,it won't hurt) the topic of executive orders. I got news for ya, they can only be made to execute existing laws! That's why there's an executive branch. That there is a welter of conflicting legislation, some times athwart our own favorites is one of the maddening nuances of popular government.
Maybe instead of broad-brushing an issue with wholesale tar (a favorite tactic of demogogues everywhere),i.e., using phrases like "left wing" and "liberal" as terms of derision, you could respond to real concerns that any fair-minded person might have about little things like life safety, perhaps taking the trouble to read the professional journals like "Railway Age" on the topic. The big roads to theit credit, are not ignorant of the problem. As an exercise, look up the derivation (from Latin) of the word "liberal" I daresay you'll be surprised, since I'm guessing you spend more time ingesting the "truth" from Fox News than reading books about Th. Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase. There is no shortage of them on the topic. Get back to me when you can present an argument based in fact and history and not hysteria and histrionics.