"Jerry None" wrote in message
om...
We have MORE Big Brother stuff now then before thanks to those
Rush
Limbaugh Republicans. We need a change for the better: Vote
Democratic in 2004.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"RHF" wrote in message
om...
DDM,

States have to demonstrate that they are 'enforcing' the "Seat
Belt" Laws or the Federal Government can cut certain Highway
and Transportation Funding that is 'tied' to "Safer Highways"


Thank You Jimmy Carter !
= Another Big Brother,
= = Big Government Idea !
= = = Form the Democrats [.]

And we can thank Mr. Reagan for blackmailing the states in a
similar fashion
to raise the drinking age to 21.. I'm not certain that Carter
had anything
much to do with the federal seatbelt mandate, but he had his own
boondoggles.. the 55mph speed limit, the banning of decorative
gaslights,
etc. during the Arab oil embargo, and our own oil companies
claiming we were
dangerously short on reserves so that they could gouge us at the
pumps (at
least Carter's Attorney General made them give some of it back
in the form
of free gas).

Doesn't matter anyway which party pushes this stuff.... it's BS.
The
federal government has been strongarming states to do their
bidding for
years.. wonder what the next unfunded mandate will be??

Read the 10th Amendment for the few limited powers the FEDs were
explicitly given.
All other power was left to the states.
All the rest of FED power is economic blackmail upon the States.
Ghost