Belt Auction

Since liberals seem to love a nanny state, how about a forfeiture law for those?

caught texting while driving. Take their phone and the car, let them walk home. The local governments could sell them at auction to make money.

Public Comments

1. How about you go to bed--or a bar? I'm a Capitalist, folks.
2. I like it. That will cause the next generation to grow up and resent the state instead of love it like they do now, and we'll get back to our roots by limiting government.
3. Actually, they did this in Nassau County, NY with those caught driving while intoxicated. They had to discontinue it, though, because it created a hardship for family members who hadn't done anything wrong and were now without a car they needed to get to work, etc. You obviously don't like liberals, or at least the Fox News definition of what a liberal is, but you seem to like the idea of taking the cars of those who text while driving. Maybe you're a bit confused? Edit: To the one who hates liberals--where do you get the idea that we're supposed to hate the government? The government is us--"we, the people." This anti-government rhetoric led to the guy flying a plane into the IRS building; it led to the guy who showed up at the Pentagon with guns. If they'd been Muslim, you'd all be screaming about how Obama isn't keeping us safe--but since they were right-wing nutjobs whose anti-government sentiment was fueled by this endless anti-government rhetoric coming from the conservative media, apparently these guys are heroes in your eyes. This is sick, it's totally out of control, and it needs to stop, for the sake of our country.
4. We live in the most rapacious capitalist society the world has ever seen and that can only happen under a capitalist government whose roll is to make sure that all of society's wealth is filtered into the hands of greedy, rich capitalists. The new nanny is a fraud. He is really just another right-wing, capitalist thief. One would think that the brain-dead people who listen to Fox News and constantly repeat, without thinking, everything that they are told would someday begin to realize that rich capitalists (right-wing) keep getting richer and richer and richer with every political initiative while the working class (left-wing) keeps taking it on the chin. This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery by Chris Hedges http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/24-1 Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87% Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428% Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health insurance: 7 in 10 —Harper’s Index, September 2009 Capitalists, as my friend Father Michael Doyle says, should never be allowed near a health care system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick do not have a choice. Medical care is not a consumable good. We can choose to buy a used car or a new car, shop at a boutique or a thrift store, but there is no choice between illness and health. And any debate about health care must acknowledge that the for-profit health care industry is the problem and must be destroyed. This is an industry that hires doctors and analysts to deny care to patients in order to increase profits. It is an industry that causes half of all bankruptcies. And the 20,000 Americans who died last year because they did not receive adequate care condemn these corporations as complicit in murder. The current health care debate in Congress has nothing to do with death panels or public options or socialized medicine. The real debate, the only one that counts, is how much money our blood-sucking insurance, pharmaceutical and for-profit health services are going to be able to siphon off from new health care legislation. The proposed plans rattling around Congress all ensure that the profits for these corporations will increase and the misery for ordinary Americans will be compounded. The corporate state, enabled by both Democrats and Republicans, is yet again cannibalizing the Treasury.
5. Brilliant idea.
6. I cant stand people who are texting non stop anyway. Mobile companies should charge per text. this unlimited texting is made a bunch of idiots who cant actually have a voice conversation. ive seen a group of teen girls standing in a group all texting and some of them texting to each other.. even though they are right next to each other. Course I know a couple guys who have kids who text so much if it was per text they woudl go broke. One has a daughter who had over 36k texts in 30 days. thats about a text ever 45 seconds that she is awake. what a society we have.