3/28/09

have or have nots

Now I am a very opinionated person, not hypocritical, but I have no fear to say what is on my mind, and here I have some issues that I am really strong minded about.
Today my issues deal with having driver’s licenses and what having that card, should mean. Some of you already know what I feel about this, but for those who don’t, let me fill you in.
I believe that having driver’s license is like a passage to adulthood. You have to be a specific age to achieve this, but I think there should be more responsibilities tied to the driver’s license.
· If you have a license, you probably have a car or are getting a car. I don’t think you should be able to own a car without a driver’s license and insurance. They should be presented at the time you get your title and registrations. While there, they check your license to make sure it is real and not suspended or expired. The insurance papers are to be presented at that time too. They must be up to date, randomly checked by the DMV, time being the issue.
· The insurance company is to inform the state, that the car is registered in, if the owner discontinues insurance and does not have proof of new insurance. Hence, no insurance, no vehicle.
· So now we have no license, no car and no insurance, no vehicle.
· In order to get a driver’s license, I believe you must be a citizen of the United States or a working legal alien. So now we have, not legal, no driver’s license, no insurance, and no vehicle.
· Now if you commit any kind of crime with that vehicle, you lose the vehicle. Which means, if you are caught drunk driving, you lose your driver’s license AND your vehicle. You do not get your vehicle back, it is gone for good, the state will sell it to open a fund for rehabilitation of alcoholics.
· You no longer have a driver’s license or a vehicle, you will now need to have friends take you wherever you are drinking or a taxi cab. BUT if you drive a friend’s vehicle and are pulled over for drunk driving, that vehicle is now in possession of the state. We will not care that is was not your vehicle, your friend allowed you to drink and drive, they lose their rights to the vehicle, there will be no if’s, and’s, or but’s.
· If you commit a crime in the vehicle, for example, burglary, again you lose your driver’s license, hence your vehicle. We will not support your being able to drive from crime to crime.
· Whoever owns the vehicles will still be liable for whatever the pay off on the vehicle is and whatever damaged might have been done during the course of illegal activities.
I think that with the crack down on these types of things, we will have less vehicle on the roads and less crimes.
And wouldn't it be great that you had to somehow be legal to buy anything? Now I am talking beyond cars, like homes. It might open up the market for an actual American to be able to afford a new house.
Even where I live, the illegal people are able to buy bigger and better, because they have the whole family working. That would be nice, except I want my kids to have an education and my girls not to be expected to marry when they are 15. I want my children to be independent and not dependent.
I look at the Hispanic women in my community, because we are a farming area, and I feel sorry for some of them. Sure their husbands go out and work, but these ladies are at home busting ass, taking care of the family. Then on the weekends the men are partying and trying to pickup other women, while the wives are still home taking care of the family.
It may have only been 50-60 years ago, our parents were like this, but baby, we've come a long way and I personally, would never wish to go back to what it was. I like being able to have what I want because I am educated and have a good job. I don't want to be stuck at home, without a license, taking care of my husband and children and in laws sometimes too.
So in closing, I have to say, we live in a great country, but it could be better. If we start making laws and actually sticking to them, I think the flood of people coming into our country would turn tides and we would actually see them leaving.

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