[Healeys] get a load of this one..

[warthodson at aol.com]

This political BS is an example of why there are laws to regulate things. Self regulation rarely works. Like keeping political comments off this list. 
Gary
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
To: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
Cc: healeys <Healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sun, Feb 14, 2016 12:22 am
Subject: Re: [Healeys] get a load of this one..



I moved here in 1971. It was a very different place back then.  Not as crowded and not as regulated in all aspects of life.  These days you can't keep up with all the nanny state laws being passed every year.  You can be a law abiding citizen one day and a potential felon the next.  Every year brings more regulations and control over almost everything you do.  Let's not get started on the gun control issue.  Now they can take all your firearms with no crime having been committed. All someone has to do is convince a judge you MIGHT do something to yourself or someone else.  If that is not the thought police, I don't know what is.  Yes, you don't have to smog a car made before 1975, but every year some lame brain democrat will introduce a bill to make ALL cars have to undergo smog either retro actively or be destroyed even though they do not contribute even 1 percent of the smog to California.  That bimbo from the San Francisco are Fran Pavley tried to get all motorcycles have to undergo smog tests retroactively back many years over a certain engine size.  Never mind motorcycles are not ridden as much or as often as automobiles or are a mall percentage of all vehicles on the road.  Luckily it was defeated.  It all started going down hill when the legislature in California went for being is session for six months out of the year to year round.  Yes Bob I do feel free to leave this quagmire of rules and control of personal liberties. Every one of my hobbies I will pursue when I retire is now being controlled by either the state of California or as in my radio control hobby the federal government being the FAA in particular.  The FAA wants to treat my 7 pound model airplane that does not fly out of my sight or place anyone or anything in danger like all aircraft and make me be licensed to fly it. of course the license is not free.  You have to pay for the government to control you.  I retire from the railroad at the end of the year and am seriously eyeing Arizona as a retirement destination.  At least there I don't worry about  an new firearm law being passed every 5 minutes.
Mike MacLean  


 



 
 
 
 



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