That is so insane and arrogant that it is pointless to comment to you again.
But I hope you get busted by the cops. Many times.
So far, I've been in this area for a year and a half, and I have not been busted even once.
Sorry.
However, I wanted to give you an update on this road, since I went down several miles of it it twice today.
Even the city bus was making 35-40 on the "speed limit 25/strictly enforced" road.
Most other drivers averaged 45 or so. I was driving with traffic, not ahead of it. It happens it's a two-lane road so there isn't much choice. Once you go behind a car, you're stuck there.
Those cars were going 40mph+.
So by your eyes, nobody was respecting other drivers? Does this mean every driver who was in front of me was insane?
I'm sorry, I think it's you that isn't making any sense. It's likely you have no clue as to what roads in my area are like.
Fine, but unless you're going to call the entire area in which I live in insane, your conclusion is unwarranted and inaccurate.
I might also point out that there appears to be little support on Free Republic for low speed limits:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637742/posts
I don't know if you're alone in this issue, but I'm going to guess you're a pretty tiny minority.
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I'd still be curious what you think of my illegal alien figures. I'm skeptical about your 20 billion figure, but as I said, if half of illegals were in California, that's under 10% of the budget. This indicates that a bit of budget-shuffling in Sacramento should have been able to keep those hospitals open. California companies had record profits, keeping tax coffers filled -- and much of that money was made by factories employing illegals.
My point, then, is that I really doubt your $20bln figure has included all positive factors. You concentrate on the negative factors, and I think you and many others are doing it because of a visceral dislike for illegals. That's your right but it doesn't make it truth.
However, that doesn't mean that I didn't find out things that are just plain wrong.
I am on your side on subjects like the LAPD prohibition against checking people's legal status when arresting them. I think that's absurd. I think it should be repealed.
And I see no valid reason why the son of two non-citizens should be a citizen. So we do have some common ground.
But I would react by changing those laws, not kicking people out of the country wholesale or putting a fence around the border. I would look at the problems we have that are actually problems, instead of blaming everything that goes wrong on illegals. It's just as bad as everyone on the Left saying that everything bad in the world happens because President Bush and his minons made it so!
Anyway, I'm tired. Sorry I stepped on one of your buttons regarding the speed limit. Didn't mean to; I expect most Free Republic users to be pro-freedom and therefore against most unreasonable speed limits, including the double nickel and the 25mph one I mentioned.
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