Lotta_Drool wrote:
I don't have a link, but the seat belt laws really piss me off.
Oh Noes, I am only 38 I need the government to protect me from myself. Fucking raping people with a $150 fine for not doing something that can only effect you (well unless you are in the back seat and fly through someone in the front seat or are ejected from the car an fly like a bloody corpse missle into a Geo Metro and explode taking out a family of 3 and their pet dog scruffy that was pregnant with a litter of 6).
You think that's bad. The nanny state is in full effect in the UK. You can do nothing these days on your own land without getting some kind of permit. Guy wants to change a 1m x 1.5m flat porch roof to a pitched new roof, he has to apply to three different bodies and employ someone like me to make the applications, he then has to wait 6month to get the approvals. The application and professional fees added up to twice the cost of doing the work.
I see this pattern starting to take effect in the states. DON'T LET THEM MAKE IT AS BAD AS IT IS HERE. Your constitution, at least protects you from government interference, so protect it at all costs.
What I loved about the USA when I was there was, you can go to a festival where its up to yourself to look after yourself and it says on the ticket "you may die at this festival" so if you do, its your own fault and no one can be sued, so insurance companies don't insist on over the top health and safety provisions. Leaving your own life in your own hands is fine by me!!
Its all about money and protecting big business, particularly insurance companies. That effects everyone, because everyone needs to be insured.