You just gotta love sheriff Mike
It's For The Children
By Sheriff Mike Cook
It seems that all we hear about these days is taxes and budgets and how the Cities, Counties, and the State can't seem to balance them or how they need more money to keep the service level at what the citizens have come to expect. Well, as always I have something to say about all this. For you weak at heart liberals, you may not want to read on because I don't want to offend your sensibilities as this is going to get right down to it.
There are three things the government can do to help cut our taxes to a level we can all live with. The first is to stop duplication of services. This is a big one and needs to be addressed. The second one is to repeal all the laws on the books that protect us from ourselves. The third thing is to stop government from giving special interest group agendas protection and special privileges.
Now you are saying, what is he talking about? Well, I'm talking about all the laws on the books like the mandatory seat belt laws and the mandatory helmet laws just to list a couple. Now they are talking about regulating the ATV (All Terrain Vehicles) vehicle usage more because of all the accidents and fatalities with the off road vehicles.
I'm sick and tired of our elected officials attempting to tell us how to live and looking down on us, thinking they know what's best for us. Pay attention all you liberals. Government needs to get off that throne they believe they are on, do the people's business and forget all this other junk.
They pass these laws to protect the stupid and this is interfering with natural selection. You see people who drive or ride in cars without seatbelts, or ride motorcycles without helmet's are not very intelligent people to began with. So they most likely will pay the price for that, and society is better off because they won't reproduce and cause more stupid people in society. This is a harsh statement but it is part of natural selection.
The sad thing is that once these laws are on the books they are not cost effective. We then put more burden on our law enforcement officers to enforce these dumb laws, instead of focusing their attention on the bad crimes we need them to work on. They even have a fund here in Oregon that gives extra money to local law enforcement for officers to work overtime to enforce seat belt laws. They call these "grants". The truth is that these are tax money that is being spent because someone got a dumb law passed, most likely the insurance companies.
Oh yes, the insurance companies love these laws. Instead of inserting a clause in the contract you sign that they don't have to pay if you are not wearing your seat belt, they get a law passed to attempt to make everyone wear the belt, because the masses are too dumb to do it on their own.
It's no different than the anti-gun movement's agenda to try to take all our firearms. They want to protect us from ourselves by taking these "instruments of destruction" from us. This is how stupid these people get and it is killing our society and freedoms. They don't understand that firearms are used thousands more times to protect the users from crimes than they are used to commit crimes or self inflicted injuries. That's right, they do good things for society and are not a scourge at all.
The long and short of it is, people have been doing things from the beginning of time that were dangerous or dumb. Sometimes they are killed or injured in the process. This is the natural way of things. We don't need big brother hanging around keeping us safe by passing these laws to protect us from ourselves.
Government needs to get on with the business of using our tax dollars for the best needs of the people and providing services we need like public safety and for our military. It would save them and us money and while they are at it we need to get rid of all these social services as well. This can be provided by the private sector.
You see it's all a matter of trust. We don't trust the government and they don't trust us to do the right thing. So they keep passing laws for us that will protect us from ourselves. How dumb can it get? Well you watch. We are about to get a bunch of our elected officials time wasted, not to mention tax money, on passing law to regulate ATV's so that people who take them out and have fun with them will be more safe. Remember it's for the children.
God Bless America,
God Bless our Troops still in Harms Way.
Michael E. Cook, Coos County Sheriff, Retired.
<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 09-08-2003 00:16: Message edited by: michaelr ]</font>
It's For The Children
By Sheriff Mike Cook
It seems that all we hear about these days is taxes and budgets and how the Cities, Counties, and the State can't seem to balance them or how they need more money to keep the service level at what the citizens have come to expect. Well, as always I have something to say about all this. For you weak at heart liberals, you may not want to read on because I don't want to offend your sensibilities as this is going to get right down to it.
There are three things the government can do to help cut our taxes to a level we can all live with. The first is to stop duplication of services. This is a big one and needs to be addressed. The second one is to repeal all the laws on the books that protect us from ourselves. The third thing is to stop government from giving special interest group agendas protection and special privileges.
Now you are saying, what is he talking about? Well, I'm talking about all the laws on the books like the mandatory seat belt laws and the mandatory helmet laws just to list a couple. Now they are talking about regulating the ATV (All Terrain Vehicles) vehicle usage more because of all the accidents and fatalities with the off road vehicles.
I'm sick and tired of our elected officials attempting to tell us how to live and looking down on us, thinking they know what's best for us. Pay attention all you liberals. Government needs to get off that throne they believe they are on, do the people's business and forget all this other junk.
They pass these laws to protect the stupid and this is interfering with natural selection. You see people who drive or ride in cars without seatbelts, or ride motorcycles without helmet's are not very intelligent people to began with. So they most likely will pay the price for that, and society is better off because they won't reproduce and cause more stupid people in society. This is a harsh statement but it is part of natural selection.
The sad thing is that once these laws are on the books they are not cost effective. We then put more burden on our law enforcement officers to enforce these dumb laws, instead of focusing their attention on the bad crimes we need them to work on. They even have a fund here in Oregon that gives extra money to local law enforcement for officers to work overtime to enforce seat belt laws. They call these "grants". The truth is that these are tax money that is being spent because someone got a dumb law passed, most likely the insurance companies.
Oh yes, the insurance companies love these laws. Instead of inserting a clause in the contract you sign that they don't have to pay if you are not wearing your seat belt, they get a law passed to attempt to make everyone wear the belt, because the masses are too dumb to do it on their own.
It's no different than the anti-gun movement's agenda to try to take all our firearms. They want to protect us from ourselves by taking these "instruments of destruction" from us. This is how stupid these people get and it is killing our society and freedoms. They don't understand that firearms are used thousands more times to protect the users from crimes than they are used to commit crimes or self inflicted injuries. That's right, they do good things for society and are not a scourge at all.
The long and short of it is, people have been doing things from the beginning of time that were dangerous or dumb. Sometimes they are killed or injured in the process. This is the natural way of things. We don't need big brother hanging around keeping us safe by passing these laws to protect us from ourselves.
Government needs to get on with the business of using our tax dollars for the best needs of the people and providing services we need like public safety and for our military. It would save them and us money and while they are at it we need to get rid of all these social services as well. This can be provided by the private sector.
You see it's all a matter of trust. We don't trust the government and they don't trust us to do the right thing. So they keep passing laws for us that will protect us from ourselves. How dumb can it get? Well you watch. We are about to get a bunch of our elected officials time wasted, not to mention tax money, on passing law to regulate ATV's so that people who take them out and have fun with them will be more safe. Remember it's for the children.
God Bless America,
God Bless our Troops still in Harms Way.
Michael E. Cook, Coos County Sheriff, Retired.
<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 09-08-2003 00:16: Message edited by: michaelr ]</font>
