Government can't stop forcing you to spend money

U.S. auto-safety regulators proposed requiring backup cameras on all new vehicles by 2014 to prevent drivers from backing over pedestrians, a rule that may cost as much as $2.7 billion.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which published the proposed rule today, said an average of 292 people die each year from back-over accidents, which primarily kill children and the elderly. To equip a new-vehicle fleet of 16.6 million produced in a year would cost from $1.9 billion to $2.7 billion, the agency said in the proposal, calling the cost “substantial” and saying it might reduce back-over deaths and injuries by almost half. More here:

Yep, add a couple of hundred to the cost of my car?  No problemo for the helpful bureaucrats/politicians in Washington DC.  That's right, absolutely no problem at all ... and if you question it?  Why you're just a brutal, uncaring, uneducated jackass.  Look, buttcheese, you'll pay anything we say and you'll pay it anytime we say it ... period ... got that?  Don't like it?  Tough shit.

Notice how they conjure up "the children" ... "it's for the children."  If you've never noticed, it's the cry of the lib.  It's one of the tools (along with "racists" and others that they use to make you shut up.

My guess is they'll add this to the list of things that "must work" for your car to pass inspection.  No sweat though, probably won't cost much to fix one of these.

Oh, and while we're at it, let's just snag some more of your freedom.

The Transportation Department is looking into technology to disable cell phones in vehicles, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

"There's a lot of technology out there that can disable phones and we're looking at that," LaHood said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." 

LaHood seemed to suggest that this technology has a good chance of making its way into cars. "I think it will be done," he said. More here:

THAT'S RIGHT, ASSHOLES!  Never mind there have been distractions while driving since little kids were invented -- THIS little piece of legislation is going to fix everything.  Know what else it's going to fix?  Here's a list:

• Putting on makeup in cars.
• Reaching around to smack a kid.
• Looking around/sideways to chat with friends
• Fiddling with the radio
• Looking at porn a map while driving
• Fiddling with the A/C - heater
• Grabbing a gun out of the gun glove compartment.
• Eating a alfalfa sprout sandwich McDonald burger
• Drinking coffee on the way to work.
• Reading the billboards out loud
• Smacking a guy for reading the billboards out loud

I could go on and on, but I won't ... I'm not a lib.

By the way, keep your ears open for this guy's name (Ray LaHood) ... it seems to come up a lot ... A LOT.  He loves pushing you around and costing you money ... for your own good, of course ... you uneducated peckerwood.  Then again, that attitude is pervasive among libs ... an essential characteristic you might say.

See, now I'm just the opposite.  I think if they're going to force us to pay for air bags then at the same time  they could just as easily install a quick-inflate boxing glove in your sun visor.  Then give every driver a remote control that you could aim at another car and set off their boxing glove.  Now THAT would cut down on people cutting in front of you etc.  Road rage?  Oh, I reckon not.  Just lower that middle finger real slow-like there, sidewinder, cuz my 'mote finger's gettin' mighty itchy.

Sure, I can hear your thoughts now ... "Klown, stop engaging in such a pedantic exercises in sophistry," which reminds me ... let's go ahead and install them in your computer monitors as well.