The Money Bullies
I really must wonder why the speed limit in this country is what it is? I know that if you were to speak to government officials and the police, that it is for safety reasons, but that in my opinion is a far cry from the truth. One reason that I am not buying that is because if they really only wanted people to be able to drive up to 70 miles an hour, then why would they provide us with cars that can go 100+ miles an hour. Doesn't that really seem as if they are setting us up for failure? And in other countries people are allowed to drive that fast. Take the Autobon in Germany, just as an example. I have never actually been there, but from what I hear, it is quite the experience, and the cars on there go over 100 miles per hour. The German government, has obviously not felt that this was a dangerous practice, or they probably would not keep allowing people to drive at this rate of speed. And I mean really what is the difference? What if you are only driving at 70 miles and hour, then will only be mamed, but if you are driving at 100+ miles an hour, you would die instantly? Which one sounds better to you? I can tell you that I would much prefer dying instantly to laying out the rest of my days as a vegetable. In any case, doesn't our government set us up for the fall, isn't it to be able to charge us a fortune for our speeding indescretions?\par
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What about seat belt tickets? Now don't get me wrong, I can truly see the value of wearing your seatbelt, but why is it our government's right to tell us that we must wear a safety belt in our own vehicle? Honestly, not wearing your seat belt only poses a threat to your safety, it doesn't have the potential to injure any one else on the road, so truly why does it matter to them wheather or not you are wearing it? I just can't get over sometimes, the control that we the general public allow these people to have over our lives. And I guess even more appalling to me is the fact that they do it under the guise of protecting us, and when we don't follow the rules they collect 100's of dollars from us. And if they are collecting this kind of money from all the wrong doings in the world, then why is it that the police auxillary league calls me to donate money to them? And isn't it even more amazing that if you do support them, then they send you a sticker to put on your car, so that the police will take it easy on you? So in effect, if I understand them correctly, what they are essentially saying is that they ticket us, in a sense to collect money from us, but if we are generous enough to give willingly, then they won't collect the ticket money from us. Basically this is like bullying for donations...Isn't it??
