Re: Politics of fear

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:29:12 -0500, trudogg <trudogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Littleguy <Littleguy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>...I don't know. Even with the laws we have in place now, and Florida is
>>>really strict on driving toasted, there are still a large amount of
>>>traffic deaths.
>>
>>One more time, I'm the first one to get in line and get the drunks off
>>the road, but there using this as an excuse to promote themselves
>>again.
>>
>>You wanna cut down on accidents? Enforce the laws better than they
>>are now (how often do you see a traffic cop around) and get the god
>>dam elderly off the road who's skills have passed them by.
>
>...the elderly have a strong lobby down here. I'm for yearly driving
>tests beyond a certain age, but that would be fairly expensive and
>require more examination stations. And the blue hair set hollers that
>it's prejudicial and hampers their independence...sigh.

Agreed. Most states don't have the bucks for something like this so
it will have to wait till it get's real broken before anything will be
done about it.
--
Littleguy
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