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Get the Feeling You're Being Watched? If You're Driving, You Just Might Be
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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Stern" data-source="post: 853767" data-attributes="member: 52580"><p>Some of the towns around us have had them for several years. They've been raking in huge revenue. You should see some of the nice, new town halls that got built with the money. And the fancy new SUV and Dodge Charger police cruisers put into service.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then, last year, the Georgia state legislature was inundated with complaints from pissed off constituents who felt they were being unfailry fleeced by very short yellow lights. And the legislature acted. They legilsated that an additional 1 second had to be added to the delay before the camera takes the picture. The new, state law went into effect in January of this year.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Camera revenue plummeted immediately. The cameras went from being a cash generating machine to a cash swallowing sinkhole. And, despite admitting that the cameras had reduced accidents and injuries at those intersections, the towns quickly idled them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Ya got that everyone? If the camera makes you safer and lets them put new, plush carpeting at town hall, it's all good. However, if the camera makes you safer, but loses money...well, maybe it's not such a good idea.</strong> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If these same political leaders had lived 240 years ago and brought the same kinds of values to governing, they'd find themselves in the hands of an angry mob, with the business end of a hanging rope around their necks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Stern, post: 853767, member: 52580"] Some of the towns around us have had them for several years. They've been raking in huge revenue. You should see some of the nice, new town halls that got built with the money. And the fancy new SUV and Dodge Charger police cruisers put into service. Then, last year, the Georgia state legislature was inundated with complaints from pissed off constituents who felt they were being unfailry fleeced by very short yellow lights. And the legislature acted. They legilsated that an additional 1 second had to be added to the delay before the camera takes the picture. The new, state law went into effect in January of this year. Camera revenue plummeted immediately. The cameras went from being a cash generating machine to a cash swallowing sinkhole. And, despite admitting that the cameras had reduced accidents and injuries at those intersections, the towns quickly idled them. [b]Ya got that everyone? If the camera makes you safer and lets them put new, plush carpeting at town hall, it's all good. However, if the camera makes you safer, but loses money...well, maybe it's not such a good idea.[/b] If these same political leaders had lived 240 years ago and brought the same kinds of values to governing, they'd find themselves in the hands of an angry mob, with the business end of a hanging rope around their necks. [/QUOTE]
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