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And the guy should have been charged with murder just like any other criminal. Our justice system treats drivers as a special case and the shouldn't. It is a revenue system to them with acceptable tradeoffs. People pick up on this (even if subconsiously) and treat it differently as well. There should be no special cases, assault with a weapon should be assault no matter what the weapon (car, bat, club, fists, etc...). You must be carefull with percentages. What you could be saying with that statement is that 60% of drivers fatally injured were not drinking therefore having something to drink lowered their risk. I would assume (and hope) that this is not the message to send.

Firts (and it is just semantics) they don't check on drunk drivers they check on everyone hoping to stumble onto a drunk driver, which as stated by the police chief is less than 3% of the time. Secondly, they need there warning lights going anytime the have a check set up so the vehicles are running (an they are anytime I have went through one). There are but you seem to be slamming me for having the audacity to suggest that they are criminals. And you would be wrong. When you make assumptions or jump to conclusions based on emotion people are usually wrong. It is very interesting that when people don't have valid arguments they attack on a personal level.

No, I am stating that the methods are incorrect. A police chief here stated that ride programs result in less than 3% of impaired driving charges. Meanwhile the smog produces by police while doing their routine revenue collection is harming people. People are able to buy their way out of problems. It seems that the more you can afford the more dangerous you can be. Why not treat people like criminals when they commit a crime instead of asking for money? If you kill or injure someone it should be treated like a crime whether you have been drinking, speeding, passing on a corner, passing when it is not safe, etc... Yes the police are always serious when it comes to money. Maybe that is why prosecuters must come up with "short lists" of criminals they wish to prosecute because there is not enough court time to prosecute them all but everyday the courts are full of people who have not committed any crime but are there for "monetary" reasons. Not at all. I am saying the methods being used are not effective. Your question is right on the mark. unfortunately most people are caught up in the emotional aspect rather than the reality.

No, it just shows basic logic. Try reading a little history and you would find the evidence. History is full of free markets that become over regulated and over taxed. The ecomony colapses and a revolution occurs. History keeps repeating itself over and over and people like you keep the wheel in motion. Conditions seem better until the ones doing the work get fed up. As I stated before it gets to the point where people don't want to get up and work for nothing. The only ones who support such a system are the ones living off the system. More and more people are reffering to these people as parasites because they simply latch on and bleed the people for everything they can. Again it is simply a fact. You just don't seem to like facts that don't support transfer payments. Maybe an idealistic one is but in reality they become bigger and begger the more the consume. And it is a fact that a bureaucracy simply consumes without producing anything. Only if I require the service. On average I would pay less because I would not be paying for several departments to sit around consuming and wasting while I do not need the service. If the need is not filled then chances are there is no need only a want. This idea that only the government will probide a need is totally bogus. There have always been organizations who have filled the needs of people much more efficeintly. The government simply took over and wastes more than it actually helps. The problem is these organizations don't just give money to people they actually require the people to put a little effort into there own help. Again you need to study history a little more. Your views seem to be distorted by your love of transfer payments. There you go. You are making an assumption that just because it has 20 times the population that it needs a large bureaucracy to run it. Again you need to do a little more investigation. You consider facts to be idiotic? Or maybe you just wanted to keep your head in the sand and hope I went away?

Smoke and Mirrors are a good trick the government uses all the time. More poeple die from smog in Ontario alone than drinking and driving in all of Canada. Setting up roadblocks and having police cars idling for hours in the hopes of catching someone contributes to these deaths. Rehabilitating someone for having a drink after work may be a waste of time. Rehabilitating someone who is a "die hard" may also be a waste of time.

Now that would be bliss. To forgoe the agony of the results of an election even for a few days would be great. Of course in Canada an election simply changes who sits at the head of the table for a short while rather than who actually sits at the table. We vote for people who become puppets with strings tied to their hands and one of thoses strings in the back you pull when you wish them to speak. The ones with all the power are elected by a small number of people.

Actually, the need to reduce taxes has been around a lot longer than that. It was a wopping 5% tax rate that spured the American revolution. Can you imagine how upset those people would be if they could see the extremely high rates most people endure today? The French revolution was based on the same reasons. High taxes with low value for money. People couldn't afford to eat yet the beuracracy of the time was "living high on the hog". One example would be New Zealand. They had an extremely bloated government with high taxes. The people said "enough is enough". Noe they have less government than PEI, lower taxes and the economy is moving in the right direction. Could you explain how bloated beuracracies help society? They simply consume what they take and eventually take more and more with no results. Ambition continues to decline, who wants to work two days and get paid for only one while otheres sit on their butts and live quite well. Who wants to get up and go to work for a government that spends money like it is "going out of style"? The more money a government wants amd gets the more corruption that creepes in. We are seeing exactly this happening in most aspects of government right now. Now that is a myth with plenty of evidence to show he did not. Your reason though is quite off. Communism ended because it was even worse for creating enthusiasm than our system (but we are getting there). The state owned everything, jobs, buildings, homes, food, etc... It did not matter how much "drive" someone had they could not get ahead. We are seeing this here, just ask any of the "old timers" who escaped those regimes.

Of course not. The money comes from thin air not from the sweat of workers. Good question. When will Canadians wake up and realize that crimes are being committed against them. If you refuse to pay the government to be allowed to work then you are not allowed to work. So the government decides who is allowed to work based on how much of a cut someome is willing to give them. This violates your right to work which is why the original income tax act stated it was voluntary). People are kept down because they are over taxed which creates the social problem in the first place. You are asking people to believe that the same people how caused the problem will fix it by taking more money from people which places more people into the disadvantaged catagory which means more money is needed to fix the problem which places more people in the .... and it goes on and on .... The interest is paid tto those who can afford such investments in the first place. Which leaves "mostly ourselves" put of it. how does boondoggle after boondoggle demonstrate that the government uses it's expenditures on holding the country together? It is the animosity created when people have their labour stolen to pay for such boondoggles that is causing the problem. We are constantly being told to tighten our belts while the government gets fatter and fatter (government = get rich quick scheme). There isn't one thing left that does not have some sort of tax associated with it. People even get thorwn out of their own homes if there circumstances change and they can't afford to pay the shelter tax required (which creates further need to help the disadvantaged after they are put on the street by the government in the first place).