Posted on 06/25/2017 9:23:54 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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>> “Here in rural Texas, many of Blacks and Hispanics don’t put the kids in car seats” <<
Doing Planned Barrenhood’s work, one crash at a time!
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Smells like race-baiting to me.
If these are poor populations then we’re getting those kids’ medical bills; at least put the seat belts on so I don’t have to pay for that.
I’m surprised that anyone would oppose such a measure; it is like letting drivers talk on cell phones as far as the danger involved.
It is a sign of the times, I suppose, that even conservatives want the government to make other people be nice. I suppose when the government is the source of medical care there will be an excuse for all that. If the government is paying for your health then the government has a duty to police your diet and everything you do that might have an effect on your health. The Constitutionalist position, of course, is to get the government out of it altogether. Then if I break my arm or my child breaks his then it doesn’t affect your wallet. You call yourself a “conservative” but you are not comfortable if the government is not making you do things to keep you in good health. I guess Big Government really is the answer to everything.
If you or your child break your arms here in NJ there is a good chance I’m paying the bill.
I never even mentioned whether the adult uses a seatbelt or not; nobody has any business driving with kids in the car if the kids aren’t belted. Someone like that has no business having kids - period.
My boss said they didn't wear seat belts either and his only brother was thrown from the car and killed when he was young. His parents said that he would ask where his brother was for years after.
I grew up in a family with five children, with seven years berween the oldest and the youngest.
I still remember all of us plus some friends piling into my mother’s Buick. Later, one or two of us often sat in the back of a station wagon with the seats down.
We thought it was fun.
We never even wore seat belts and all of us have miraculously survived.
I recall vividly B4 seat belts, when a sudden stop occurred, dad would put his arm out to *hold* my brother and me back. LOL.
His heart was in the right place. :)
That is an argument for changing the law, not further putting the government in charge of your life. Or for getting out of New Jersey. If you want the government to regulate everything because it taxes everything then you are lost to the Constitution and saying you support conservative positions is hypocritical because in practice you don’t.
When we were younger I recall never wearing seatbelts in the back of station wagons (there were none) - but the average car probably weighed 3X more than they do today. When people see airbags in a car I don’t think they realize part of the reason they are there is because of all the steel isn’t.
If people are going to debate whether or not seatbelts save lives, then I won’t even play that game.
I guess you’re right; the kids just aren’t worth it.
When I was growing up, I used to ride in the back of open pickup trucks all across northern Alabama.
Seat belt laws are stupid.
That said, I Always use them because it’s my choice.
If you want them safe instead of free put them in government creches. If they are not your kids they are not your responsibility.
Then stop sending me the bills to birth, clothe, feed, house, and school them.
Years ago we were visiting a lake in NY state, and NY State Police were flagging down many vehicles (including ours) to ensure children were secured. I wasn’t thrilled, but completely understood it; these cops are sick of scraping kids off the asphalt.
Suddenly, my daughter heard crying in the distance. She went through the storm and came upon a little girl, maybe 7, lying in a snow bank. Her arms and a leg were broken. She'd been ejected from the car when it crashed. My daughter yelled to her partner to bring a gurney so they could rescue the little girl.
Turned out the MF'er driver was too damned drunk to remember whether he had any other passengers in his car (he had minor injuries BTW). The police did a search and found no one else. It was all my daughter's partner could do to keep her off of the drunken SOB; she wanted to beat him up so badly!
(A Paramedic's job is to assess the injured, provide initial care and transport to the hospital, where the patient is transferred to ER personnel. EMT's don't normally get follow-up data. Hopefully the little girl turned out OK).
Why not..?? Strength of character and a set of stones of the proper size is the requirement for the job...
Equal justice under the law is a real bitch for some, but it's the only thing that will work in a free nation.... Other wise, it ain't free...It's corrupt.!
MHO.......
Point made by you pretty well there.
That’s a leftist response. The answer is to return these things to the private sphere. You misunderstand the Constitution and small government conservatism entirely.
I was looking for the Freakonomics articles as well.
Great stuff!
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