[Fishman]

Hmm, any special treatment for our undocumented guests from the south?

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'H')mm, any special treatment for our undocumented guests from the south?

[deMolay]

More cities are seeing the rise of Obamavilles, tentcities. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilsNotWell', '1'). Thirdly, no mention is made of children being removed by CPS or other such happenings.
2. Same goes for driving without insurance...if you don't have insurance, police are duty bound to try and prevent that.

[MarkJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he growing encampments led the city to place portable toilets and security guards near one area known as New Jack City, named after a dark and drug-filled 1991 movie. But that just attracted more homeless people.

“It was just kind of an invitation to move in,” said Mr. Stack, the outreach center manager.

[Ferretlover]

HHHHhmm. HLN/CNN were running a story this morning about how Los Angeles Co was dumping all its homeless in Lancaster Co (which LA denies):
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Homeless in Lancaster get free tickets to go away
Nonprofit pays for people to bus to places where they have family or other support systems. Mayor R. Rex Parris says Lancaster has become a 'dumping ground' for other cities' homeless. By Ann M. Simmons March 30, 2009:
Andrea and Greg Killgore were already living on the streets in Las Vegas when they decided to relocate to Lancaster in early March. They thought their job prospects would be better in California.
But the couple were unable to find work and feared they would soon end up back on the streets. A few days later, they were on a bus headed to Denver, where a relative had agreed to take them in. To their surprise, a local nonprofit group had agreed to pay for their one-way ticket out of town.
Since January, the Grace Resource Center has offered to cover transportation expenses for homeless people to return to their home states or wherever they have families or other means of support. So far the group has spent about $2,500 to help more than a dozen people leave Lancaster through the Opportunity Bus Pass Program. …

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'c')ompassion to carry insurance

[Sixstrings]

Yikes, these pics are starting to take on a Depression quality.

(other than the filthy workspace, looks like a healthy meal though; there's some artisan bread there, and bottled water )

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'Y')ikes, these pics are starting to take on a Depression quality.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MarkJ', '
')No good deed goes unpunished.

[TheAntiDoomer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'M')ore cities are seeing the rise of Obamavilles, tentcities. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

[Tyler_JC]

You shouldn't be allowed to drive a car without insurance and I believe most states don't let you.

It has NOTHING to do with your car and everything to do with the health and safety of the rest of the drivers on the road.

Thousands of people get hit by uninsured drivers every year. The victims are forced to pay for huge medical bills, to say nothing of the damage to their property. Car insurance protects the other people you hit from your carelessness.

I don't care how "down on their luck" they may be, the minute they start endangering my health and safety, I want them off the road.

I speak from personal experience here. My sister was hit by an illegal immigrant in SoCal last year. She was unharmed but her car went from VW beetle to squashed bug in the blink of an eye.

No insurance, no legitimate identification, no way of tracking him down. We were left with the entire bill for the damage and my sister's auto insurance rate went up despite the fact that she was rear-ended.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I') speak from personal experience here. My sister was hit by an illegal immigrant in SoCal last year. She was unharmed but her car went from VW beetle to squashed bug in the blink of an eye.

No insurance, no legitimate identification, no way of tracking him down. We were left with the entire bill for the damage and my sister's auto insurance rate went up despite the fact that she was rear-ended.

[PrestonSturges]

Sounds like a bunch of random conservative tropes strung together. How about their children are being given for adoption by gay couples, and the pregnant women are being given forced abortions. Yeah that's the ticket.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I') speak from personal experience here. My sister was hit by an illegal immigrant in SoCal last year. She was unharmed but her car went from VW beetle to squashed bug in the blink of an eye. No insurance, no legitimate identification, no way of tracking him down. We were left with the entire bill for the damage and my sister's auto insurance rate went up despite the fact that she was rear-ended.

[AgentR]

Can't wait till one of you self righteous yahoos take a $20,000 hit because someone decides the rules don't apply to them and they need not have insurance or the financial means to compensate the victims that they may create on the road.

Frankly, I don't much approve of the auctioning and seizing... What they could do that would be adequate would be to take a sledge hammer to the axles of the previously mentioned RVs to prevent them from being driven on the roads which they have not right to be on. Would that be better?

Or do you guys really think these people should be allowed to drive their whatevers despite what law and common sense dictate.

[Tyler_JC]

I don't advocate stealing their property. I just don't want them driving without insurance. It's unfair to the law-abiding people.

It makes a lot more sense to take away their license plates (so they are conspicuous on the road) and let them stay in the parking lots of abandoned malls.

This gives them somewhere to live, does something useful with the abandoned spaces, and reduces risk for the rest of society.

Even better, we could put a couple hundred cots into the mall and turn it into a homeless shelter.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

They should be dealth with just like any other person and their being down on their luck shouldn't enter into it. They should be towed off the road and have their licence plate taken away and they should have a wheel lock put on until they pay their insurance.

Its nothing personal, but they should be made to be responsible for their actions.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'T')hey should be dealth with just like any other person and their being down on their luck shouldn't enter into it. They should be towed off the road and have their licence plate taken away and they should have a wheel lock put on until they pay their insurance.

Its nothing personal, but they should be made to be responsible for their actions.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Quite correct, it won't be a problem much longer. The point of insurance has become a punitive one. The person with nothing to loose has precisely nothing to loose.

The mindset is that if you have nothing to loose (IE: increased insurance rates for years) then you will drive like you have nothing to loose. This is easily and most evidently seen by people who will drive more aggressively against people in nice cars, because they have a lot to loose as opposed to those who don't care if their car gets another dent.

So maybe you should start paying these premiums to your state, since this is a legal issue. Sueing someone cause they hit your car won't work if they put you in the hospital, its costly and you will already have enough to pay with the medical bills. Besides, I am sure there are other more reputable insurance companies other than AIG.

I too (knock on wood) have a stellar driving history. While I may not have driven as much as you, I have had professional drivers in my car compliment me on my skills. Having the care and responsibility for driving the kids from my Air Cadet squadron is all the ego boost I need.