Posted on 10/25/2005 12:07:25 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
How many traffic dumbbells are illegal aliens?
probably the same place 80% of statistics come from...
Ha ha. You know the Mark Twain quote. "There are lies and there are lies. And then there are dam* statistics." Something like that. (I wasn't around to hear him say it...haha)
However, now he really won't be able to get a license, nor insurance, nor register any vehicle he drives. Which in effect will keep him in the same place he is now, driving illegally.
Won't the LAPD be enabled to impound any car he ends up driving in the future, that is, if he's pulled over and that will be dependent upon the Courts allowing the LAPD to pull him over.
If he's convicted of driving without a license, insurance and registration, won't the courts throw him in jail? And if not, then the law is unenforceable, sigh...
Well, LAPD wont respond to an accident unless a) City property has been damaged (so they can send a bill), or b)someone is badly injured - I suggested he punch the guy out, but then the contractor would end up in jail and an illegal owning his house.
Daily News, LA Times.
Googleoid
With the money spent on this window dressing, they could probably have built railroad-style crossing gates at cross-street intersections and maybe even an overpass or two over the busiest thoroughfares. However, functionality is less important to the liberal bureaucrat than are feel-good measures like planting vegetation along the right of way for the Orange Line.
That does present a bigger challenge. Ours are just inattentive or stupid.
["Fifty-three percent of working-age Los Angeles County residents have trouble reading street signs or bus schedules, filling out job applications in English or understanding a utility bill. Civic, business and education leaders released an extensive report on literacy problems in the Los Angeles area and mapped out a five-year plan to address them.... Educated immigrants who have not yet learned English, immigrants who are not literate in their native tongue and English-speaking high school dropouts contribute to the area's workforce literacy problems, according to the report." Los Angeles Times (September 9, 2004) A1.] Summary Report. 24 p.:
Check my math.
5000 riders per day per year is 1,825,000 riders x$330,000,000x 10 years (assume the lifespan of the buses) is a cost of $18.00 per rider per day. Yup, that sounds like a great plan.
Assume 50% inflation of rider stats, it costs $36 per day to ride the bus. I'll bet tickets are in the $4.00 range.
It is too bad that they (the powers that be) don't allow your math to be put into the equation. All they can see is one nose pressed to the window of their great plan.
He's a former leader of MEChA. Not just a member, but the president of the UCLA chapter.
Only just before the mayoral election did he mostly renounce his involvement in that group.
He was forced to do that by some guy who followed him around with a sign. He wasn't forced to do it by the L.A. Times, who not just ignored it, but have since called MEChA a "Chicano rights group."
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