Humourous Politics…the World of Our Sick Lawmakers
by As our lawmakers seek more power, the common sense that most people have leaves when officials are elected into office. We know this is true by the legislation that they present.
Politics today have not only been a sore spot with most American’s, but our elected officials are so out of touch with reality that many of their issues are funny. Funny is not the way they spend our money on stupid ideas and special programs for themselves, but some of the legislation has to be classified as humorous.
The famous border fence that is being built on the Mexican border cost the average American $4 million dollars a mile. That might be worth it, but today two girls showed filmmaker Roy Germano that it only took each of them 18 seconds to climb the secure fence. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 is far from secure. Not only is it an example of how our leadership has failed again, but the design and approval of this project is almost as bad as the Health Care reform that is so flawed that we may never recover financially from it.
Another stupid legislation idea was in New Jersey. Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D Essex) proposed a law requiring all bicycles to be licensed. The proposed fee would be $10 and the fine for not licensing a bicycle would be a $100. The bill was a response to many elderly people complaining of either almost getting hit by a bicycle in crosswalks, to actual collisions between older pedestrians and young bicyclist. For some reason this ignorant woman felt that making people get a license plate for their bicycle would stop the incidents. Or at least give them a record of the riders of the bikes.
This idea came to a fast end when citizens complained about the bill. The public outcry was too much for the assemblywoman to handle so she withdrew the idea. But New York councilman Eric Ulrich is proposing the same bill for Queens, New York. Ulrich says that bicyclist scare the hell out of senior citizens. Ulrich goes on to say that bicycles are intimidating on the city streets. I personally would have thought that the muggers, rapist, drug sellers, and gang members would be more intimidating than a bicycle. But what do I know? I don’t live there.
But in New Jersey there is an actual law that makes it illegal to wear a bullet proof vest during the commission of the act of murder. This law is about as stupid as the one that is being proposed about making it a crime to have in your possession a firearm within 1000′ of a government official if your intent is criminal. These people are so out of touch and stupid that the idea of these two laws will have absolutely no deterrent at all. If a person is going to commit murder, then being fined or imprisoned for a short time compares nothing to the punishment if caught for committing a murderer. This is a common sense thing and our legislatures seem to not have any at all.
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