it's 26 million they are spending to get people in pickups to buckle up,

and we have folks homeless & starving?
kids on the street?

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/du...l/11703138.htm

"The two-week enforcement wave, which runs from May 23 through June 5, is supported by more than $26 million in national and state ads, which target pickup truck occupants as well as those in other passenger vehicles. The ads, produced by NHTSA in English and Spanish, feature vehicles driven in several regions of the country, with unbelted vehicle occupants receiving tickets, and then buckling up."

 

just about as good as spending my time and officers time to pull over a vehicle that is suspected of not being buckeled....


Now, say it with me, "We must protect EVERYONE from themselves at ANY cost"

 

more nanny gov.

 

That money would be better spent reducing fuel tax!!

 

I'd say it depends. If just one person decides to buckle up because of the ads, and then their life is saved because of it, do you think that one life is worth $26 million?? Say it's two people. Are they worth $13 million each? Three? Four? Five? Two Hundred?? I guess it all depends on how much value you place on human life.

 

I think it is a shame that some people are so ignorant, that they have to be told to buckle up.

 

Think of it as saving tax revenue for the gov. If you're alive, you pay taxes...JMO - JKE

 

Personally, I think it's stupid that we are forced to wear our seatbelts. It should not be a law. If I want to be thrown out of my vehicle at 70mph, then so be it. I should have the right to do so. With that being said, I religiously wear mine everywhere I go. I think they are a great idea and that they should be strongly SUGGESTED, but not enforced. I'm sure I'm gonna catch some for this post but that's alright. I also thinks it's silly to spend $26,000,000 on a national campaign. But then again, like Hoss said, can you put a price on a person's life?

 

How about the person not belted that goes through the windshield and kills a bystander or causes another wreck by people trying to avoid them?

Just as bad as a moron not wearing a skid lid. IMHO

 

When my 9yr old twin daugthers see a motorcyclist ripping down one of our 6 lane boulevards without a helmet, they say "Hey Look!! An Organ Donor!!"
They're right.
Thankfully, when they climb in my truck nowadays, I don't have to remind them to buckle-up anymore. It's automatic with them...

K.

 

You know, the company I work for spends literally thousands of dollars each year to buy hard hats, safety vests, safety glasses, etc. They also spend thousands of dollars TEACHING people what they have do to be safe on a construction project. All of that money spent reduces our profit.......which reduces my yearly bonus. That said, I recognize that the money used to help protect the employees of this company while on the job is literally saving lives.

Prior to the federal government stepping in and forming OSHA, construction was considered to be one of the most dangerous professions to work in. However, OSHA was formed and rules were created. We now have to wear hard hats. We have to tie off if we are exposed to a potential fall. We have to provide guard rails. The list is endless. BUT, the number of lives lost in construction every years has dropped DRAMATICALLY since OSHA stepped in and started holding companies accountable for the safety of their employees.

Just like there are people too stupid to wear a seatbelt, there are people too stupid to put a hard hat on when they're walking across a construction site. That's why we have to MAKE them do it. It's a shame that we have to do that, just like it's a shame the government has to MAKE people buckle their seatbelts. But, I don't mind giving up a little bit of my bonus to help save lives on our jobsites, so I guess I don't mind a little bit of my tax dollars helping to save the lives on our public roadways.

 

I saw one ad the other day. It had "John Boy" from John Boy and Billy Show sitting in a Duramax, blabbering about why you should where a seatbelt.

 

Texas' program is called "Click-It or Ticket".

To be truthful, there are still so many drivers in this area alone that don't/won't wear a seatbelt that the CCPD simply camps out underneath the loop-around areas of overpasses for easy pickin's. They post a plain-clothes officer talking on a cel-phone on the elevated part of the concrete embankment to look down into the approaching cars. He tips off the uniforms underneath the overpass. No sense in chasing them down in a pursuit/trafficstop when they'll drive right up to the waiting officers in droves!
They do this for long enough periods of time and often enough that you'd think people would wise up! Nope... Lots of warrant arrests too!
It got to the point that I would stop going through the loop-arounds just to avoid the time delay showing my license/insurance etc...
Still they rake 'em in...

Keith

 

SoTex, that's my crass thought.

elimination of the dumbest per Darwin.

the folks who are too stupid to buckle up, won't be changed by laws.
and you can ticket them constantly, and they still won't buckle up.

this is like a 26m tax on smart folks to badger stupid folks

 

Our LTI's have dropped since we spent thousands on the Safe Start program. It also saves the company thousands on insureance costs.

OSHA, NFPA, Unions, and others have their place. Im not a strong supporter of any of these, but they are needed in certain settings. They provide rules to make the work place safer.

In the 50's or 60's (I dont remember I wasn't there), the NHTSA started making roads wider, better guard rails, and break away sign posts mandatory. All of their improvements make sense. The problem is sometimes people dont always think about what makes the most sense. Tell me to buckle up, dont hound me assinine laws.