The idea is perhaps good in theory, but worthless in reality, for some of the reasons mentioned.
1: that is not a police officer's job. they are trained to do a specific series of tasks. Auto repair is not on that list.
2: the police unions would tell towns to go pound salt without big raises. Imagine those contract negotiations. oh yeah, forget about collective bargaining process and contracts?
3: the logistics of it all, as previously mentioned.
4: whenever someone's light goes they will just head to the police station for their free light. Why go buy a light and pay for install when you can get it done for free. So parts houses, installers are all out. Yea job growth!
5: the manufacturers would never give up this lucrative LOB out of the goodness of their souls. They are corporations, they have no soul. This would not buy them any consumer goodwill. What else are you going to go out of your way to buy from Sylvannia? So the idea of free lights ain't happening. You might have better luck getting an unrelated firm, lets say Microsoft, to fund it. At least that might make some sense to someone with funds, like adopting a highway but on a bigger scale. Not to me, but the road is littered with stupid ideas.
6: This state is how many billions in the red? How many? What shape are our roads & bridges? On the grand scale of things we need, this woudl be somewhere near the bottom of the list.
7. I'm good with socialized car repair. Do we start buying everyone cat converters too because it is good for the air? How about tires?
I do pay taxes, probably more this year than you have cumulatively in your lifetime. Not that it matters, but you threw that red herring out earlier. If my $$ went to buy someone a new headlight I'd be pissed. More than I am now at all the waste & handouts that already exist.
That said, FWIW, I've never received or known anyone who received a ticket for a headlight or similar nonsense unless they were pulled over for something else and got this ticket a a 'favor' or were disrespectful to the officer and earned it. Even if that something else was being a teen aged boy driving a firebird late at night.
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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
It's not just you frosty, a good majority of people on this website are, I just don't understand why everyone has to come off as a dick for everything they have to post here. I'm a dick once in a while, but when it comes to them on here always coming off as one, it's a different story, go somewhere else cause really even though people seem to take it here, your not really welcomed, go be a dick on a Corvette or BMW site. I don't go to meets anymore becuase they used to be fun, and the peopel there were cool, but now they're filled with ********, why am I goign to hang out with peopel who think their **** doesn't stink, when really they need a size 13 reality check shoved up their ass. **** it .
(no "you" or "your" typed in this post is intended for anyone specifically on here ,just saying as a whole to the person reading this, lol, so not you personally frosty lol.)
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there is a very easy solution to you not liking it here....type something else into the address bar
and no one "flung poo" at you right away, they said it was a dumb idea, YOU in turn flipped out and made it personal, and it escalated from there, if you cant handle both sides of a debate, or cry when someone doesn't like your opinion, then in the same post ridicule theirs, maybe you should stay out of debates? |
And there it is, to a tee. Someone disagrees with you and you cry, call people names and badmouth the club. Your usual MO. That is why people are quick to jump on your **** because your act is old. As an admin I get to hear from lot of club folks and your name comes up a lot. And not in a good way. Respect is a 2 way street.
Mike is dead on. You don't like it here, if the people are mean and upset you so, stay away. Log out is up in the RH corner.