Posted on 07/28/2007 6:00:54 PM PDT by elkfersupper
They had one set up in my town. On a checkpoint night, they stop like 80 people, get one or two DUIs and about thirty traffic violations like burnt out tail lights, expired Tags and inspections.
It aint about getting drunks off the road, it is about making money...
It already has been. Some months ago several executives from a national corporation told me that New Mexico was the only state where they had to relax a companywide prohibition on hiring people with DUI's. They would have 70 or 80 applicants for a job and every one of them would have at least one DUI. They had canceled expansion plans and were seriously debating pulling out of the state because of the low quality workforce.
With your permission, I will forward your comments to our "DWI CZAR" and NM Economic Development.
I already tried that. I was told that they weren't interested.
Pretty odd, considering this:
“$400,000 grant from the state Traffic Safety Bureau..”
What in the world is a government agency doing giving “grants” to any private agency? When are the taxpayers going to revolt?
“They keep going at this pace and pretty soon the whole state will be convicted.”
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“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
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