On 2005-12-18 10:56:00, FueLaw wrote:
"What happend to you is clearly wrong. The legal system is far from perfect.
But this is the norm. Actually, I didn't get screwed quite so badly as I might have. A few weeks after, w/ one leg imobilized and hurting still, I got a call to go pick up a draft for almost $10k. So I did, and went directly to the bank with it. Next day, I get this call from the same clerk or scty or whomever she was. She says they made a mistake, they shouldn't have issued the draft and they'll get in big, big trouble if I don't take the money out of the bank, in cash and rush it over to them.
I may have been born at night, but not last night!
The law doesn't always work as intended.
When something I own fails to work this consistently for this long, I generally get rid of it and mark it up to experience. How much longer will it take in this case?
Hopefully in your case the judge made resitution a part of the sentencing order.
What sentencing order? Are you joking? The blood sample (drawn by the cop at the scene just to make sure it got done) spoiled. So badly did it spoil, they say, that one could not assess the level of alcohol.
After paying the surgeon (who, oddly, didn't get a slice of the $2k already paid for medical bills) I passed on the weekly therapy and, instead, got some dental work done, a halfway decent family vehicle and a trip to bring my kids to see my dad out in the sticks in WV. We didn't know it then, but next time I saw him he'd be dying and it would be the last time for my kids.
So, you tell me, would that cash of mine have been better spent fighting the good ole' boys? I don't think so.
In Fla if the driver casued you serious injury he would get some time if he had no insurance and no way to make restitution.
He had insurance. Which meant that I couldn't, even if I wanted to, sue him. I'd have to go up against his insurance company. How helpful!
About the people not being able to afford insurance. There is no good answer. Cant let them drive without it. On the other hand they cant afford it. Kind of a "catch 22". Works both ways if they get in accident then they will want and be entitled to compensation. "
And people in hell want ice water. We're not getting it. Insurance is like Vegas; except for a rare fortunate few, no one ever wins against the house. Who would run an insurance company at a loss? Why would they?
As Jefferson said, "It is error alone that requires the support of goverment. The truth can stand on it's own."
Free commerce, the capitalist system, only works in a free market. The orange growers of Florida (AKA Tropicana/Coca~Cola) would have gone bust a long time ago, in competition w/ Brazil, had it not been for their having friends in high places in the USDOA and FLDOA (coincidence that Florida Prison Corp is heavily invested in groves, processing plants and patented consumer products manufactured by Johnson & Johnson? Ok.) If we let them fall, instead of spending many millions in public funding to prop them up, do you think that land would go fallow and all the grove and factory workers starve? Hell no, people would come up w/ better uses for that land. People are adaptable to changing conditions. Socialist governments are not.
They were making a profit selling a year's worth of car insurance to 16yo boys for somewhere around $100. Now that it's compulsory, the profit margin is not even a consideration. Everyone must buy, therefore the price is artificially high. Cars were cheaper then, of course. Thanks to all of Ralph Nadar's help, cars are now far more expensive to build. Do you really think it's the market squashing production or demand for cheaper, simpler, fuel efficient, fix it your self transportation? Are you nucking futs?
Offer that for sale in this valley and you'll be beatng eager prospective customers off with a stick. I know young men (especially, though girls too) who would gladly give you their left arm for that. It would be life changing. But, according to those kind, benevolent watchers of ours, more dangerous than raising a generation of kids in a world where good, honest working folk can't afford to get to work.
Yes, it is a catch 22. If I hadn't been forced to part with all those insurance premiums over all these years, I might be in a better position to cover any damage I may one day do to anyone. But between the mandated private spending and layer upon layer of taxation (to administer and teak and change and execute all of the help we're getting) we become too impoverished, too restricted to ever get around to anything more than just staying afloat.
I think we've had just about all the help we can stand. I want the Old Deal back, damn it!
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
--Leo Tolstoy, Russian revolutionary
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