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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, approximately 43,000 people are killed in traffic accidents, per year, in the United States.
Wow... almost seems like the Polticians might have to sheath their knives from behind their backs and work together with eachother to find a solution.... its almost like that'd be a good job for someone... maybe some leaders would work good there, you know do some good things for this country every once in a while, where people work together, you know?
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, approximately 43,000 people are killed in traffic accidents, per year, in the United States.
Are you going to stop driving YOUR car?
I don't wish to sound callused but, we can replace 43,000 people, we just can't replace a planet.
The American response to the need for safety on the road is to strap themselves into the biggest vehicle they can afford and lay on the horn, not the brake, when trouble hits. Americans must have the lowest level of aptitude for driving in the world. If it weren't for the awful level of infrastructure and the poor mechanical state of their vehicles, third world drivers would be all over American drivers in demonstrating skill and panache behind the wheel. Modern automobiles enable occupants to survive jaw dropping amounts of vehicle damage in a crash. That is the only thing keeping many Americans from saying early hello's to their predecessors. So pedestrian fatalities continue to rise since they cannot benefit from the advances in vehicle size and safety.European drivers never hit cyclists or pedestrians. Americans hit them all the time. Are European pedestrians more nimble, their cyclists more skillful? Nope. The drivers are more careful. Americans are very self centered and careless. No wonder oil wells explode, coal mines explode, power grids explode... ... am I going to stop driving my car? Why, yes, I already have!
You know, y'all can argue about this til the cows come home, but what good is it really doing?
Come join us down here and wash some birds and wildlife, instead of pointing fingers and spewing stuff that wont matter in the long run!
I guarantee you will feel better about yourself.
I could not beleive what I heard from the "de facto" leader of the GOP; Rush Limbaugh, this idiot claims that there is nothing wrong with the oil spill in the gulf, that somehow this is part of nature, and it will just "go away"?????, we are talking about a disaster of giantic proportions, and this fat junkie, self procalimed expert, trivializes it as if nothing happens!!!!, the adherence to stupid ideology by the gop alienates the people with any kind of intelligence and/or common sense, is this their plan to re-take the white house?
Short answer for libs who don't like off shore oil spills-
ANWAR
If you don't crave $10 a gallon gas, don't *****.
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