Ah, New Hampshire. Live free AND die. Just the people we want to emulate.
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Donât want to wear a seatbelt donât, but be required to sign a waiver that leaves you and the public free from paying any hospital bills as only immediate first aid will be covered! After youâre stabilized, youâll be sent home unless you have the cash to continue your treatment! Kind of like battlefield triage!
This way everyone wins, the taxpayers arenât footing your bills, neither are the insurance companies! You win cause your a big dope!
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The last thing the dumb but free people will feel is the âfree, fresh wind in their air, life without care. . . .â and then dead
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Maine. Where there is a terrible tea bag governor.
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Youâre practicing common sense on a Monday morning, and Maine wants none of that.
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Libertarian Lickspittle. Ridiculous idea of course. Thatâs why this will gain traction by the rightwing. Its in their DNA.
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So then getting rid of this law is a way of âcutting taxesâ and âsaving taxpayers moneyâ. Since of course taxes are more important than peoples lives.
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âGovernment exists to protect us from each other, not to protect us from ourselves,â
Dear government, please protect me from the morans.
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Live free and die stupidly.
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This proposal is so dead-in-the-water that there isnât a single mention of it anywhere on any of the stateâs major newspapersâ web sites, not even in articles on a bill currently under debate to stiffen distracted-driving laws.
Meanwhile, the Maine DHHS continues to be a complete debacle, the Maine CDC is completely rudderless and operating under the shadow of scandal, Maine continues to not only to refuse to expand Medicaid but is actually making Medicaid available to fewer and fewer people, a federal judge recently overturned Maine law allowing the importation of less-expensive prescription drugs (the only state that allowed importations), LePage continues his pursuit of eliminating the state income tax (responsible for half the stateâs revenue), LePage is determined to single-handedly prevent any sort of viable alternative energy project from succeeding in Maine, yada, yada, yada, but this is silliness is news.
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Opponents of the seat belt repeal â including . . . several trauma surgeons . . .
Transplant surgeons, on the other hand . . .
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âIf you chose to put yourself in harmâs way, thatâs one thing. ⌠But
when the danger and harm extends to others, then thatâs a different
story.â
If you arenât wearing a seat belt in a crash, every other person is put in mortal danger by your body bouncing around the interior of the car.
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Actually, maybe the Repubs can live with the seat belts if they require anyone wearing one to also carry a semi-automatic weapon. You know, just in case.
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Iâd be all for this IF:
When you drive without a seatbelt and are in a crash, a) you wonât be transported to a hospital or ER unless you can show insurance or the ability to pay the ambulance bill; b) you wonât be treated in the ER or hospital unless you can show that you can pay the bills; c) if you are permanently disabled, you donât get state benefits; d) if you die, your survivors wonât get state benefits.
As they used to say back in the 50âs, âFreedom is not free.â
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WellâŚthat and the fact that the Dems in Maine have nominated really bad candidates for governor two cycles in a row. We suffer from a leadership vacuum.
I hope it passes. Then Maine can be the organ transplant capitol of the US.
See, this is only a pro business idea!
And why our founding fathers revolted against King George. Have you ever seen a photo of George Washington on his horse enslaved by a seat belt? No!
As he fought at Yorktown the battle cry was âSlaves yes, seat belts no!â
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I was already a habitual seat belt user when the first laws were passed. Why? A close encounter with a windshield that could have been a lot worse. In my youthful contrariness, I briefly considered not wearing a seat belt in protest at an intrusive law, but almost instantaneously realized that would be stupid beyond words, putting myself needlessly in harmsâs way to state, in the final analysis, that I donât belong in the gene pool .
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That dumb ass Anti-Obamacare Sheriff who is now begging others for money is also anti-seat belt law. Behold the stupidity:
Why do we have seat belt laws?
If you think itâs because our government wants to keep us safe, think again.
We have seat belt laws simply because people with money wanted us to have seat belt laws. They lobbied for it, they pushed for it, and they eventually got it. And if you look closely, youâll find that many other laws are on the books simply because insurance companies wanted them there.
Are seat belts a good thing? Sure. Statistics have shown us time and time again that properly worn seat belts reduce the chance of injury and save lives. But a law? Why a law? Because it saves the insurance companies money if we get hurt less, and it gives them a reason NOT to pay for injuries if seat belts are not worn.
I am proud to say that in my entire time serving as sheriff I never issued a seat belt citation, and neither did any of my deputies. We talked to the people about wearing seat belts; we encouraged them to be safe, especially where children were concerned. But we could not in clear conscience enforce a law which violated the personal freedoms of the people, and thereby the principles of the constitution!
Iâm not saying that we should all refuse to wear seat belts. The issue is not whether or not itâs a good idea. The real danger here is that when we allow government to enforce these kinds of laws, we are surrendering our ability to think and act for ourselves.
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Stopping at red lights and yielding to oncoming traffic also infringes my freedom to make personal decisions you stupid fuck.
I bet this shitbrained excrement has no problem infringing on womenâs freedom to make personal decisions about their vajayjays.
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I hope that fuck goes bankrupt, and then dies soon after.
Seatbelts have saved my life three times. Iâm talking high speed, dead for sure without it.
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