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It's a law a day late and a dollar short since many businesses are centered around access to the mobile telephones. It's just another job-killing piece of legislation this Administration has grown famous for.
Wow, there must not have been very many jobs before the invention of the cell phone...!
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As the guy mentioned, you should only punish someone who has actually harmed someone else. Not punish someone because you think he might harm someone else.
So, you'd have no problem getting on an airliner being piloted by two guys you just spent an hour and a half with in the airport lounge drinking Margaritas?
Don't like hearing people talk on cell phones in restraurants, theaters, museums, and parks? Don't go to restraurants, theaters, museums, and parks where cell phone use is allowed.
Problem solved!
How about these people who insist on constantly talking on their cell phones disturbing everyone around them show some respect for others who don't want to listen to their dribble.
Let's see. The Nanny state says its okay to have amplifiers and speakers on your car radio that make the brain of a driver, and anyone alongside them, quiver like a bowl of jello but it's wrong to use a hand's-off cell phone device.
It's a law a day late and a dollar short since many businesses are centered around access to the mobile telephones. It's just another job-killing piece of legislation this Administration has grown famous for.
It's actually a job security bill, gives more for the police to do
I think this law could very well backfire and actually make driving LESS safe. You see if nobody talks on the phone while driving anymore out of fear of others seeing it then many of those people will just text instead since then your phone is held lower and not nearly as readily visible to the popo. This is just asking for an explosion in the amount of texting while driving which is even less safe.
On another note: Lets face it, whether we like it or not a LOT of business is done while driving, so this law restricts economic opportunities and lessens efficiency of many working people.
Smart drivers will remain smart while idiots will stay idiots. We don't need any more nanny state laws and even more ways to be fined.
I argued this in another thread. When they made talking on a hand-held phone illegal in my state I know many people who switched to texting because it's easier to get away with. I guarantee that if Congress pulls funding for states without a cell phone ban then all states will enact one. And, consequently, texting and driving will greatly increase. Just another negative result of ill-conceived nanny State laws.
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