Seatbelt Laws

[ffscj]

Compare the wreckage of the cars nowadays with the wreckage of the cars back in the 60's and 70's. Most cars nowadays will be totalled in the same type of wrecks. The only thing that make the cars safer and better today, are the airbags and seatbelts.

The cars today are made to crumple and absorb the impact of the collision. In the cars of yesteryear the car did not absorb the impact but transferred it to the passengers. People are living in crashes now that would have killed them years ago due to internal trauma. Seatbelts and airbags have helped but so has the ability of the vehicle to absorb the force created in an accident.

Chris

 

[Caustic Burno]

Texas in a 1967 GTO runnin 70 was slow compared to the 283 Super Bees runnin a 283 with a six pack telephone poles looked like a picket fence. The cars are totaled due to the cost of parts and labor. The cars of the sixties were not as well made for the speeds of the muscle motors that US Auto makers dropped in them. The sixties was about speed lets see the 442, GTO, Roadrunner, Super Bee, Mustang Chevy, SS Camero SS, Vette and the list goes on. The trucks were crap Ford had the twin I beam dance at abot 60 mph and GM had the rust bucket door panels rust out in a year. If you had a wreck in the sixties they picked you up off the side of the road because the autos didn't have crumple zones. Cars are much better engineered today.

Maybe you should research the Lottery and find all that money that was ear marked for the education system that has disappeared.

 

[mobetter11]

The reason for the seatbelt laws is to cover the governments backside from lawsuits. (That we all end up having to pay for) They could care less if you wear it or not. But if they don't have laws like the seatbelt law, then some d---head lawyer would sue the government when his client go injured in a wreck, and would site that if there were a seat belt law then his client would have been wearing it and wouldn't have gotten hurt. Then some d--ba-- jury would end up awarding his client millions of dollars that all of us taxpayers would end up helping to pay by increased taxes and such.


I personally don't care where the lottery money has gone, like I said before I don't spend my money on lottery tickets. Let the i---ts that spend money on them whine and complain about the money disappearing.

 

[dun]

Maybe you should research the Lottery and find all that money that was ear marked for the education system that has disappeared.

I don;t know how it works in other states, but the CA lottery was established so that the company that's running the show get's there profit % cut from the gross. Then the operating costs are subtracted, then the piddly remainder is available for schools, and administering the funds going to the schools. That last part eats a bunch of what would be available.

dun

 

[J Baxter]

I didn't start this thread to badmouth seatbelts. I just thought it was a prime example of big brother watching out too closely again. I just thought this country was founded on freedom, but it doesn't appear that way anymore.

If everyone is so concerned with the government paying the way for something that was preventible then why are we not mandating birth control for welfare receipients. We could 'prevent' another generation of welfare mongers, but that is not PC.

JB

 

[Caustic Burno]

The reason for the seatbelt laws is to cover the governments backside from lawsuits. (That we all end up having to pay for) They could care less if you wear it or not. But if they don't have laws like the seatbelt law, then some d---head lawyer would sue the government when his client go injured in a wreck, and would site that if there were a seat belt law then his client would have been wearing it and wouldn't have gotten hurt. Then some d--ba-- jury would end up awarding his client millions of dollars that all of us taxpayers would end up helping to pay by increased taxes and such.


I personally don't care where the lottery money has gone, like I said before I don't spend my money on lottery tickets. Let the i---ts that spend money on them whine and complain about the money disappearing.

MB you claim to be from Texas you should know the politicians sold the lottery on the ballot by promising all the good Southern Baptist that the profits would go into the education fund.

As far as protecting the government thats a bunch of BS stop the frivilous lawsuits like the woman with hot coffee and the guy from NY suing McDonalds cause they made him fat. No one wants to take responsibilties for their own actions, it's always some one else's fault and they need to be compensated. A leach on society is going to continue to suck the life out of its host until removed or the host dies. Check your history of democracies, when they have learned to vote in poloticians to support them the democracies collapse. We are are on that road with socialist thinking and the the third or fourth generation of leaches. The laws you propose are good, is sucking the life out of the host. Its time to kill the parasites not the host. As long as the liberal mindset continues to make easier to be a parasite than a supporting host the system will remain broke.

 

[Craig-TX]

A leach on society is going to continue to suck the life out of its host until removed or the host dies. Check your history of democracies, when they have learned to vote in poloticians to support them the democracies collapse. We are are on that road with socialist thinking and the the third or fourth generation of leaches.

Caustic you must have paid attention in school. And you must have had a teacher(s) who understood and conveyed the principles of history and sound government. You are correct in your inference that we were not formed as, or ever intended to be, a democracy. That is one of the liberals' favorite lies. As you said, democracies always fail.

We were, and for the time being remain, a republic. The difference is night and day. The founding fathers gifted us with a republic crafted in exceptional wisdom and foresight. The system is almost perfect. But it will only stay that way if the American people pass wisdom and discipline down from generation to generation.

Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally. Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

The third paragraph is made up of quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Plato, and Seneca. They knew the difference. Let's hope we do, and that we teach our children and their children.

Craig-TX

 

[CattleAnnie]

It's the law to wear them up here, but even if it wasn't I'd do it all the same. Lost an uncle in a roll-over accident when I was a kid. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt and when the vehicle rolled, and he was ejected half-way out of the company truck driver's door window when the vehicle rolled onto him.

It was a closed casket funeral.


Take care.