Posted on 05/15/2006 2:20:53 AM PDT by mathprof
And, it was also a privilege back then to work with my friend Senator Frank Lautenberg to champion legislationMADD pushed hard for this, which was one of the reasons Candy Lightner quit the organization, declaring it to have been largely taken over by neo-Prohibitionists.encouragingblackmailing states to raise their drinking age to 21 thereby helping to eliminate drunk driving and blood borders between our states.
-Eric
Yep, I left MADD before Candi did they were losing sight of the original intent.
Blackmail is how the states were forced to "adopt" seat belt laws as well. SINator ELIZABETH DOLE made an unholy alliance with the auto industry and then screwed them.
According to the NHTSA, the average medical cost of collision related injuries is 55 percent higher for unbelted motorists.
85% of those collision related medical bills are paid for by someone else. Other people's taxes, or other people's insurance premiums.
So long as this is the case, it is a lesser infringement of rights to make you buckle up than it is to make me pay for it.
I'm pro seatbelts and can make that decision myself,thank you very much.I even had my husband install them in a car in 1961.
The thing that astonishes me is that here in Mass,where you have to be belted,the schoolbusses don't have them. It boggles the mind.
As long as I don't have to pay for someone's medical care via taxes or higher insurance I'm all for the law of the jungle when it comes to seatbelts.
Me, I wear mine because I prefer to be strapped into the car, I'd put a 4 point harness in if my seats would accomodate it, I don't like sliding around when driving fast.
No, it is a Saturn... it may as well be a ugo compared to my dead f250.
the wife's little plastic car.
if i hit a raccoon in it i am a goner.
To quote the great Walter E. Williams, "That is not a problem of liberty, that is a problem of socialism".
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