Dear Mr. President, Please Don’t Kill My Kids
by Chris BurgardOn Dec. 12, 1974, my grandparents were driving home when a vehicle traveling 50 miles per hour hit them. On March 17, 2002, I was driving home when a vehicle driving traveling 50 miles per hour hit me.
My grandparents were killed instantly. I lived. My grandparents were driving an AMC Gremlin. I was driving a Dodge 3500 diesel dually pickup truck.
AMC is now out of business. Dodge Trucks are still selling well. The free market decided that we didn’t need AMC Gremlins.
I still drive a Dodge dually. We factor in safety versus miles per gallon on every automobile purchase that my wife and I make. Devo could not have said it better: “Freedom of Choice…It’s what you want!” Freedom to choose is a basic American right. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are guaranteed to me and 299,999,999 other Americans by the Constitution.
Mr. President, I did not give you nor the Federal Government permission to use my tax dollars to bailout Chrysler or GM. Neither did any of my friends. We did not have a choice in that matter.
We all knew that GM and Chrysler were headed for bankruptcy. So be it. It would be a hit to the American economy. Yep. Let’s take the hit and move on. I believe President Obama, that you knew that GM and Chrysler were headed to bankruptcy as well, but by giving them our money first, you were able to seize control of the American auto industry. In one fell swoop, you became the head of GM and Chrysler. You turned the United Auto Workers Union into GM and Chrysler owners. You nailed the coffin shut on Ford, the one manufacturer who turned down your money (…our money). How is Ford going to negotiate wages with a union that is now also their competitor?
Mr. President, you have created an army of Czars that are answerable only to you. Our Constitution says that only Congress has the power to create taxes and they are answerable to the people. Not only does our new car Czar not answer to Congress, he won’t even go on Neil Cavuto. Where is the transparency, Mr. President?
But I digress. Your administration has already strong-armed the auto industry into accepting mileage compliances for their new vehicles. Michael Moore is giddy with the fact that the US Government now owns 60% of GM. He wants you to end the auto industry as we know it. According to him, GM should only produce bullet trains, buses and hybrids. If the two of you have your way, Americans will no longer be able to purchase a GMC SUV or a big Dodge truck.
Our family car is a General Motors Hummer H2. I am sure you are familiar with the brand and model; you just sold them to China. China may not want our debt, but they will still take our SUVs.
It is fairly common for us to get cut off and then flipped the finger by eco-saints whenever we drive into the city. Several times we only narrowly avoided a serious freeway accident. Quite often, Mr. President, these cars have bumper stickers with your name on them. These self-righteous “Earth Savers” feel completely justified in their actions as they curse at my children and me because they are only offending and risking the lives of people who are riding in a “planet killer.” The fact that we heat our house with reclaimed wood, run almost 100% of our ranch on solar power, grow our own fruits and vegetables, and for the three weeks out of the year when our dirt road washes out, the only way in or out of our ranch is in a 4×4 Hummer or it’s equivalent, never enters into their sanctimonious consciousness.
I see this same kind of prejudice in your speeches and your actions Mr. President. I see this same arrogance as you steer our nation away from free enterprise and into the arms of the Central Planning Committee.
Last week, my wife was rear-ended by a driver who never even hit his brakes. His truck slammed into my wife at 50 miles per hour.
I thank God that the Germans put good steel in their vehicles and know a little something about engineering. If my wife had been driving an AMC Gremlin, she would probably be dead now.
Soon my children will be driving and buying cars of their own. Mr. President, will you allow them to have freedom of choice or will you doom them to take their chances in a 21st century AMC Gremlin?
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Keep at it Chris you are great. You are absolutely right about Obama. He has a very specific agenda and could care less about what you think.
Anyone who can quote a Devo song in an article is alright with me. Oh yeah, agree 100% with your article.
Excellent article! I especially LOVED this part..
"I believe President Obama, that you knew that GM and Chrysler were headed to bankruptcy as well, but by giving them our money first, you were able to seize control of the American auto industry."
Damn right he knew as did we all and the only reason that he DID bail them out is for the exact reason that you mention, if he didn't then HE and the government wouldn't be in charge of it right now. If he had left it alone the same thing would have happened, only without billions of taxpayers dollars down the toilet.
obama and this administration totally suck.
"Dodge Trucks are still selling well."
Really? Moron.
So you have PTSD and you get severe anxiety when driving in small cars. What does your psychosis have to do with the rational debate on mileage regulations and why does the rest of society have to cater to your fears?
Furthermore, assuming you believe the crap you write, I take it you are perfectly ok driving around in a Hummer and killing other people's children when they can't afford a $60,000 car? Cowardly and indifferent to other members of society, you are a true conservative. Solution: grow a pair.
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You may have noticed that the blog has picked up a couple of trolls recently. À la Carnac the Magnificent, I predict the lib trolls will post something to the effect:
"You stupid republicans. Don't you know that we can achieve 35+ mpg just by correctly inflating our car tires?" (I actually got this statement from a liberal).
Obama estimates the new EPA guidelines will cost car buyers $1300. Industry experts say the cost increase will be between $5000 and $13000 per car. Who are you going to believe?
H8r, so what's your point? Or is it just another attack ad hominem?
Chris, keep callin em like you see em. Mr Obama's misdirected policies will fail, the country will suffer for awhile then we'll pick up the pieces and start again. Until then, protect yourself because the gubment isn't in that business lately.
LOL…classic liberal schtick. When you really stop think about what is being said in the post, it's so inane that it becomes funny. It is so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different sensorium of stupid. It is trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid.
I now know the country will ultimately survive the liberal infestation; liberals like this troll are the epiphany of stupidity, and 'survival of the fittest' dictates that they eventually must disappear into the dustbin of history.
You won't have to worry about your kids dying in eco-friendly clown cars. Contrary to popular belief, the goal of the lefties isn't to get us into smaller cars – it's to get us onto cattle cars. In Michael Moore's Brave New World, we'll all be herded onto public trains and shipped back and forth between our government-owned homes and our government-owned workplaces. The only people still driving will be those who can afford cars – like Michael Moore and Babs Streisand. And they'll probably be driving Hummers.
Isn't the point of lowering the cost of Obamacare to have lots of dead people smashed inside Smart Cars?
Oh spare me your weepy-eyed SOB story about all the poor people who can't afford to drive safe cars, since it's the oft-stated goal of the left to make driving so expensive that only rich people can afford it. Either you're demanding that we jack the gas tax up so high that people won't be able to buy gas, or you're snivelling because gas prices are so high. You whine about how unsafe SUV's are, then you demand people drive around in silly little clown cars that crumple like tin cans when they hit a speed bump. You people are as neurotic as you are insipid.
It's ironic that you call yourself "antifascist". You and your left wing brethern are completely fascist. You want to control what we drive, eat, say, wear, etc. You want to control every aspect of our lives all under the guise of "doing what's best for all of us", because those of you on the left know better than the rest of us how we should live our lives. If you want to drive a golf cart because you think you are "saving the planet" that has been here for billions of years (and will be here for billions more) you are free to do so. Those of us who actually embrace freedom would never impose a mandate on your choice of vehicle.
It's ironic that you call yourself "antifascist". You and your left wing brethern are completely fascist. You want to control what we drive, eat, say, wear, etc. You want to control every aspect of our lives all under the guise of "doing what's best for all of us", because those of you on the left know better than the rest of us how we should live our lives. If you want to drive a golf cart because you think you are "saving the planet" that has been here for billions of years (and will be here for billions more) you are free to do so. Those of us who actually embrace freedom would never impose a mandate on your choice of vehicle.____
The rest of us choose to drive safer, larger vehicles. Your hyperbolic rant about "killing other people's children" is typical lefty spew that you regurgitate when you can't debate with logic. It's kind of like how you lefites love calling someone a 'racist' when you run out of slogans and platitudes to regurgitate during an argument.
____ I will continue to drive my SUV, eat meat, own and carry firearms, make money as a capitalist, and be thankful that I am an American. I know that pi$$es you lefties off, which makes me all the more satisfied.
"Business Booms at Doomed Chrysler Stores"
http://www.autonews.com/article/20090609/ANA05/90...
On the point about building less safe cars, see this parody entitled "GM Unveils More Aggressive Post-Bailout Commercial": http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/06/exclusive-gm-...
Just like a liberal, let's just take everything to the lowest common denominator, so every one is equal. Instead having everyone aspire to reach the top.
But Chris, the more humans that die, the better off the Earth is. Hey everyone, this guy hates the Earth!!
Delving into the world of Liberal logic now are ya? That's a subject for a Sci-Fi Fantasy novel? Emphasis on "Fantasy"…………
Love that 35 mpg the Eco-nuts toss around.
Here's some "useless" info……..Currently the only cars produced today that can meet the new rules (Barely) are the Civic Hybrid, Hinda Insight (POS), Prius(also POS) and the Mariner/Tribute Hybrid…………..And insiders say the cost will be, on average, about $5400 a car……….
A $25,000 Chevette! Yea!
Someone call the whaaaambulance. The effeminate conservatives want to "feel safe" by driving their big cars. "Oh no, Obama is going to KILL MY CHILDREN if I have to drive in anything less than a Hummer! Oh me oh my, lord have mercy!" hahaha I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. You are a caricature of the gluttonous conservative.
Excellent article, I agree completely.
Seriously WTF ya running on about your comments read like you are more likely antfiber than antifascist seek help for your constipation buddy.
"…when they can't afford a $60,000 car?"
The problem is that all cars before long will come with that price tag. Go back to the DUmmies where you belong. John and the team should ban you immediately just like I would be if I posted on DU.
Wow! That all ya got? Please please be a wee bit more origional, GOOD GOD I thought the left tended to be the creative types I have yet to see anything but trite bile from the trolls as of late..
I've just lived among them for too long. I think they're infiltrating my brain. Hey, liberal body-snatchers! I think that could work.
Nice article. I do drive a car that impresses me with its feeling of fragility. It would be real nice if I could get a more solid car that would last longer, be safer, and oh yeah, lets Drill! so I can get some gasoline at a reasonable price. In order to get a somewhat effective car but be very lightweight, I suppose I have to spend a lot more money for my car.
I'm getting it from all sorts of different directions. Thanks Liberals!!
Where's the ad hominem? antifascist made several salient points relating directly to the arguments made in the article. Your response? "MEANIE!"
Typical Breitbart idiocy.
"Bwahaahahaa STUPID LIBERTARDS doink doink…"
None of Vainomoinen's reply even remotely traffics in ad hominem, so please don't be quick to chime in with the remonstrations. All you conservative "ad hominem" attack haterz.
"Soon my children will be driving and buying cars of their own. Mr. President, will you allow them to have freedom of choice or will you doom them to take their chances in a 21st century AMC Gremlin?"
What ever happened to personal responsibility? Your sentiment suggest you are looking for a "Nanny state" solution.
I drive a tiny little econo box. That's my choice. If I die, well, I know I took my chances. I am an adult and I call my own shots. My wife's parents don't like it. But at least they blame me and my wife… not the government.
What a command of supply and demand you have. Presumably you are implying that Chinese Hummers will stay at $60K and every other car will match that price. Interesting theory. If you are scheduled for a GED exam, you might want to consider pushing it back a bit.
Please feel free to roll around on half inflated tires. FOR FREEDOM!
No, I respect some of the concepts that conservatives claim. Conservatives have been holding the line in the greater social discourse on the matter of "personal responsibility". That is an excellent concept and now we see some liberals emulating that line.
This article is not consistent with the conservative principal of personal responsibility. It may inadvertently be a caricature, I don't think gluttony has anything to do with it.
Oh no your INTENSE DEBATE METER is red. You better duck.
So insightful. And prescient. Who's going to preside over the big conservative round up? And where will we be placing y'all? Yucca Mountain?
if you drive a Dodge and the family car is a hummer2 what was your wife driving?
"Last week, my wife was rear-ended by a driver who never even hit his brakes. His truck slammed into my wife at 50 miles per hour.
I thank God that the Germans put good steel in their vehicles and know a little something about engineering. If my wife had been driving an AMC Gremlin, she would probably be dead now."
WHY ARE YOU NOT BUYING AMERICAN????!!!???!?!
Thank you for avoiding ad hominem attack and for honoring holocaust victims with your choice of avatar name.
Everybody be very careful Auntie’s being very serious now, when he gets stern like this he well… wets himself. Auntie tell everybody what Santa Claus brought you this year, I bet it was special.
Even if Drill, Baby, Drill were substituted in schools for the Pledge of Allegiance, the benefits from maximum drilling of our own resources wouldn't have any impact for 10 years, and your buddies in Big Oil have seen fit not to increase refinery capacity. Enjoy yer FAIL.
Yes, the planet will still be here. It will just be too hot to support human life. But we'll all be dead by then so who cares, right?
When you think about it, there are very, very few well-known liberals that drive small cars. Ed Begly, Leonardo DiCaprio……..and that's about it. And even Leonardo offsets driving a small car by flying around with a chartered jet, so what's the point? All for show, I guess. Al Gore? Yeah, right. He won't drive in anything short of a limo, while he flies around in private jets consuming untold hundreds of gallons of fuel and spewing off enough carbon and pollution in a month for my lifetime traveling the world commercial. What about Congress? Who drives an econ box? Probably one out of 535 representatives and 100 Senators. I saw an interview with Robert Kennedy Jr who is an environmental lawyer. He lobbies for environmental actions and such. He drives an SUV. Says he needs the room even though he usually is driving by himself. When are the American people going to hold these accountable for their hypocrisies? Maybe its just for the riff raff.
No, I think you're missing his point. He's asking for freedom of choice while your comments suggest its ok for the government to choose for us. Freedom of choice comes with not requiring American automakers to make small cars. Clearly, there will still be some choice but more smaller cars is just a first step. Next step is upping the gasoline tax. Who can't remember during the election campaign Obama's tour of Europe. While there he absolutely praised Europe for their gasoline tax. While its politically difficult now while the economy is in turmoil, its obviously in our future. And with that you have the government once again attempting to influence behavior. That is a scaled back freedom of choice.
Here's the thing people. The Right is OUT and the Left is IN. Please, complain all you want to, we love reading it. We don't care how much you complain. It makes us happy to see you so miserable. Sixty five percent approval rate? We'll take that too. Buy your big trucks while you can. We need to get them off the car lots anyway. Do your part to help out the auto makers. Oh, and thanks again for giving us all this pleasure.
"why does the rest of society have to cater to your fears?"
Answer your own question, squid-brain. At least there's validity to the fear that you will be killed if you're in a collision in a subcompact car. It is within the realms of possiblity and probability. Forcing the rest of us to drive overpriced clown cars to satisfy your chicken-little Global Warm—Oh wait, it's Climate Change now that weather patterns belie the GW models.
Apparently you're OK with forcing those people who can't afford a $60,000 Hummer to give up safety and comfort to drive to drive a cramped, tinny POS which, when Obama Motors is through, will wind up costing $60,000, if not more.
Where did you learn about cojones? Certainly not from looking down your own knickers.
Talk to an ER doctor, fella. Visit an ER, or watch the old Discovery channel "Life in the ER." Every ER doc I know drives the biggest car they can put their family into.
Oh, motorcycles? ER docs love 'em. They call them "donorcycles" because the young, healthy riders are brain dead but have great hearts, livers, kidneys, corneas, lungs, all sorts of goodies to part out to needy patients.
I put my family into the biggest car I can find. There's nothing psychotic about it, unless by "psychotic" you mean that I want to protect my family and keep them alive.
You are a total surd. In all of your incoherent babblings, you never seem to get around to actually expressing what you are really FOR. I suspect that this is because you actually cannot define yourself except as what you claim you aren't. If you didn't rant constantly, you fear you might vanish up your own fundament.
I like it! Not much of a stretch though. Liberals as "Parasites"?
PSA: Some Doctors say that banging your head with a brick relieves some of the discomfort of living among Liberals………
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What's with all these accidents happening at exactly 50 mph? Doesn't anyone out west have brake pedals in their cars?
This post would be pretty funny if this holder of a BS in TheeAter ProDuckshun wasn't so dosh garn serious. Thanks for the giggle Wonkers.
I agree with you completely. Also, isn't it funny how they same people who say they are pro choice when it comes to killing babies are anti-SUV? My choice is my SUV. I own an 11 year old SUV & when I can afford it, I'll buy a newer one. That is, unless the liberals makes it illegal to buy used vehicles.
Nah! I like using my Barack Hussein Obama tire pressure gauge to much……………..
Did you really tell him to "Keep at it," followed by "[Obama] could care less about what you think?"
I'm just saying, mixed messages. Dude has a cowboy hat LET HIM DO THE TALKING, NITWIT.
Just kidding Jed, we tight.
Amongst all this talk of packing us all into cattle cars and Obama and his Central Planning Commission, let's spare a thought for GW Bush, who led the bailouts of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and AIG. I would think you'd be happy to see Obama following the policies of the last president [R].
Now, about safety. Chris, you're relatively safe as long as you hit (or are hit by) something much smaller. Hummers and Smart Cars do equally well when hit by cement trucks. So, when Obama has his evil way and we're all driving Volts, you'll be just as safe as you are now from collisions [small cars have to meet safety standards too], but you'll be a lot safer from rollovers and you won't be a threat to everyone else. And, bearing in mind you and your wife have been in serious accidents twice, and have narrowly avoided serious freeway accidents "several times", I hope you live to see the glorious day. Until then maybe you should get your cars painted red or something so they can see you more clearly.
Because he has a choice. And some foreign cars are qualitatively better than domestic cars.
Soylent Green! It's made of people! You'll be able to feed all the liberals and eliminate conservatives – a twofer! Bon Appetite!
I like it!
I wonder if he'd like to be sitting in a Honda Insipid when it get's rammed in the a** by an 18 wheeler. SUV's versus Sub-Compacts are not the problem. It's the Micro-Machine cars versus a UPS truck that is the problem. But Eco Nazi's choose to ignore this problem………….
Can you say one term President? Kinda roles off the tongue doesn't it? Start practicing now…………….
That was some damn fine comedy, pardner. You really made me believe that paranoid redneck SUV-driving moron character you play on TV. "My truck is BIG!!!!!!!" Comedy gold.
We must all drive huge cars. So, we will all die. It will be so wonderful!
You lost me at "H2."
It's nice that you libs are enjoying being IN. Enjoy it while you can. The "Right" will take Congress back in 2010, and vote B. Hussein Obama out in 2012. Then you can reflect on your giddy memories of the Obama fiasco while we put the country back together.
The author of this knows little or nothing about auto safety dynamics.
But then again, what do you expect from a person that says "Our family car is a General Motors Hummer H2."
Your family car? Unless you live at the end of 18 miles of logging road, you're wasting your money, making the roads less safe, and using more resources all to compensate for your lack of knowledge and lack of manhood.
Dear President Bush: Please Apologize For The Children Who ACTUALLY Died.
Yeah, but you realize it's not actually an anal thermometer, right?
ROFL
Please down a fifth of Vodka, drive 120 miles an hour through a school crossing area at 8:30 in the morning, shove your seat belt out the window, and ride around with the front trunk flopping in front of your windshield. Then you will have earned the right to complain about "government interference" in the affairs of right thinking guardians of free dumbs.
So Liberals making things illegal = bad, Right Wing making abortion illegal = good. But you hate intrusive government. In-ter-est-ing.
Larger vehicles are far from inherently safe. If they are too heavy and high they are very difficult to control. As for your capitalist ventures, good luck to you. I didn't know giving hobos quick ones under the overpass was such a boom industry at present.
Like all liberals Mike is to illiterate to know how to read. As long as Obama is there to tell him what to think everything will be fine…. just….. fine.
Think how the CAFE standards Congress has mandated for years has hurt the manufacturers. Think about it – Congress is saying that the American consumer is too stupid to choose a vehicle he wants for the economy he wants at the fuel prices he is confronted with.
If you want a Prius fine. If you want a Hummer, fine. But if you want to sanctimoniously look down on those who don't want a hybrid then you are a hypocrite, because it takes far more energy to produce the batteries with the car than a simple gas engined car. But those Prius owners get to smugly say how they are "helping" the earth
I drove by what's left of our Hummer dealership today and saw H3s on sale for $17K – quite a drop. The market is sorting things out if the !@#$%^&* politicians would just stay out.
Yes but what business is it of yours to judge what anyone else should drive? Maybe the Committee For Concern deems you should have nothing more than a Vespa motor scooter. That's all you need and if you have anything bigger then you are raping the planet.
Are you for real? You need to get a hobby kid! And no, jerking off like a spider monkey on crack doesn't count as a hobby..
Your bouncing around here like a f**king retarded cat and haven't made a point yet. Come back when you have something constructive to say…………
Choosing safety over injury is somehow "shell shock" in your world? Why do we have to cater to you desire for "mileage regulations " instead of just curtailing your own use, and why aree you so upset that the author has a desire to protect his family? Isn't that a nobel cause or whould you rather they be killed in an unsafe vehicle?
Why would you acuse the author of murder? Do you have any evidence that he has commited vehicular manslaughter or is it just an obviously weak attempt to make a falacious argument? I also find it hard to believe that you currently know the income of the drivers on the road with him at the times of those incidents.
Oh nevermind…. you're far to ignorant to ever comprehend any of the questions I asked….
Don't fault antibrain to much, when you have the intelectual capital of a rock on the bottom of a lake you really shouldn't expect much more than bile….
Hey, antifascist are you proposing that all children should die in small vehicles that offer little accident protection? You are obviously a true liberal who mistakes taking care of oneself and ones family with being a cowardly conservitive. As a conservitive, I would have never thought about running over liberals in their tiny cars as a way or solution to eliminate the liberal political scourge that is contaminating the country. Hmmmm, I wonder if that would actually work? Running over liberals in their tiny cars, that is. The only thing government is good for is collecting too many taxes and going to wars. Government never designed, or built a good motor vehicle, and they certainly are not capable of doing that now. Give me my choice…..
30 years ago when Carter, you know the democrat that Obama is doing everything in his power to make look good, stopped drilling here pretty much deflates the "It'll take to long fantasy" but that didn't stop you from trying.
8 Years ago when Bush came into office and tried to increase drilling and AGAIN you stopped him from doing so also deflates the "It'll take to long fantasy" but that didn't stop you from continuing that failed policy.
2 years ago when Pelosi revoked the open dirlling agrement that was made it AGAIN prevented the United States from getting it's own oil.
So it would probably be a good idea if you just put your "dunce" hat back on and go back and sit in the corner where you belong.
Felonious stupidity, is what I like to call it. There ought to be a prison for people that stupid.
More like familiarity with Darth Anti-kin, Emo Sith's antics.
Check his intense debate profile and go through his comments.
(Or perhaps people lurking should, since you don't appear to be the epitome of reason either.)
Illiterate? 'Mike is to (sic) illiterate to know how to read'.
Well, do they point and screech when you say something not in agreement with Teh Narrative?
Not only could he care less about what conservatives "think", he and the other lefties could care less how many humans MUST die in order to save the planet! So what if your little car gets you killed, at least that'll be one less evil human on the planet. I actually saw a lady driving one of those golf cart type electric cars w/the missing doors and she had a BABY CARRIER strapped in the passenger side. Wish I had followed her and bawled her out.
You neglect to mention the intended sheer brilliance of their environmentally-sound engineering. They crumple up so nice to make them easy to recycle, just like aluminum beverage cans.
So now we know why Number 44 is letting assorted countries get away with acquiring nuclear weapons. The sad irony is afterwards there will be no one to say "The Earth Is Saved! Mission Accomplished!" Oh well, I guess they could set up some sort of solar-powered message board, it will come on after the dust settles and the nuclear winter ends.
Have some pie. truck
more pie Truck?
Several years ago, I had a beloved 1982 Ford LTD Crown Victoria, great powder blue paint and a perfect white vinyl top. One night while driving home after 2nd shift it was hit on the passenger side by a late-model Chevy Malibu that sailed through an intersection going the wrong way down a One Way, the underage driver "only had a few beers" (her mother called me promptly the next day). It hit the front tire, whipped around and slammed into the rear quarter panel. The Chevy was toast, glass smashed out, the front and rear corners were smeared, she was taken out on a backboard by the ambulance crew. I had a little bit of seatbelt bite. What concerned me most personally was I had hit up the store before and had frozen food in the back. The LTD had some wrinkled sheet metal, the wheel had been pulled backwards, it was fixable but her insurance company totaled it out.
If I had been driving one of those cute little enviro-friendly cars that Chevy would have been going straight through my passenger door.
I do not know about no $60,000 Hummers, but I shall continue to drive the 1983 Ford F150 I paid $1200 a few years ago for as long as I can get it through inspection. It is just not safe enough for me to do anything less. Besides, the money I save by not having comprehensive on something that old more than makes up for any extra cost for gasoline. I am saving money by staying safe!
I am delighted to know you drive small cars, I encourage you to go for something even smaller than what you currently drive; it's your only way to save your children and the planet.
The Smart Car is your moral size, please start driving one everywhere particularly in high traffic areas so you can show everyone how Smart you are.
You may love it now, but the Statist point is to make us all miserable – yes even the die-hard libs. Actually, with the desperate spreading of our debt and doling out terrorists around the world, he's working hard to make the planet pretty unhappy. Ah, Utopia Are we there yet?
Great article except for one glaring flaw. "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" are NOT rights guaranteed by the Constitution. This is a phrase in the Declaration of Indepence. It was not included 11 years later in the Constitution nor two years after that in the Bill of Rights. The Declaration of Independence was a political document outlining the founders' justifications for declaring their independence from England, but it is not law and does not carry the force of law. Although the phrase clearly guided the Framers when they wrote the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" are not specific rights guaranteed to us by the Constitution.
When making arguements promoting our rights and freedoms, we should avoid relying on that phrase and rely instead on the actual contents of the Constitution.
Tell it like it is Chris. The American dream of American made is gone and the Federal Government will make sure that will not be back anytime soon. (free trade) Restore restore buy and older vehicle fix it up and drive on. The older the more American it is. Like you Mama drives an SUV. I drive a one ton pickup and my son has a 1961 ford f-350 metal fenders, hood, and cab. Bring it on little speeders. That my freinds is MY CHOICE. God Bless All.
Darwin at work. Harsh. But its effective.
Stay smart, Annie. Protect you and yours. Softly and mildly protest as the lib makes their decision, then shrug and let nature take its course.
I drive a Chevy Equinox – that is my vehicle of choice. If I wanted a Hummer, I'd buy and drive one. I'm of the mind that while America is still a reasonably free country, one drives what one wants and can afford. I'm a big boy now, I can look out for the big vehicles like I do the 18 wheelers. it's the kiddie cars like the "smart" car that scares me – they're on top of you before you can see them. And the drivers usually have a cell phone jammed in their ear too.
I have a friend who was a member of the local rescue squad for about 40 years. He said he'd never ride a motorcycle because he's pulled too many dead people off of them – far more than he did from cars. Good advice far as I'm concerned.
Rubber pants and eco-friendly diapers…
What's that smell?
You can put a lawn mower engine in a cardboard box, slap on some wheels and get fantastic gas mileage. As long as safety is not a factor. I guess mileage outweighs safety for eco-nuts.
The guy is spending our money faster than anyone can tote it up. Funny, the media is eating it up. Wait till the bill comes due.
Ah, its called Freedom. Any more questions?
I'm with you Mr Galt – a free born American.
Personally, I am not miserable. I drive the car I want and always will. While Obama may try to restrict my freedom, really he can't.
The indvidual pretty much can do what he wants and bam bam can go to h*ll.
Besides, there are PLENTY of rustout, oil burning '73 Caprice Classics left for the poor. Why I saw an "Obama, si se puede!" bumper stickered one being pushed by the owner and his family just the other day…
I agree. Safety means lots of heavy steel.
No one talks about the 18 wheelers on the highway with the golfcart Obama cars.
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