Winners & Losers

[skeet]

Originally Posted by fabsroman

Hey Skeet, how about trying not to twist my words. What I said was a poor SOB with no assets and most likely no insurance, doesn't have as much to lose as a person that has worked 20 or 30 years and accumulated some wealth. I never said they shouldn't be able to drive. Please quote where I said they shouldn't be able to drive!!!!!!!!!!

Illegals have no conscience. Yeah, that one is rich. Why don't you just hang out the HATE sign for the illegals. I know plenty of them, and I can assure you that most of them have a conscience. How this debate got to illegals I have no idea..

Fabs, I twisted nothing. Your words are below. No you didn't say they shouldn't drive..but they worry you more than the rich guy.. Wow. By saying what you did you imply that the poor guy has nothing to lose if he runs into or over you. He must not care cause he only carries that much insurance. Sheesh man.. how can you feel that way?.. Talk about hate..They won't have enough money to PAY for their accident.

How it got into illegals was I stated that they concerned me much more than the guy with insurance minimums. They usually have none. Most I have dealt with had no license..no insurance and no legal tags on their cars. Yep I dealt with illegals after the fact..the fact that they ran into someone while having no insurance..no license no tags and no remorse. Did I say that quite a few were laughing about the accident? They knew nothing was gonna happen to them..except MAYBE get deported. I dealt with them on a more base level than you do. I don't hate the illegals..I just think we should get 'em all out of the country and give some the chance to come here legally..and while we're at it, let's make English the official language and a requirement for citizenship. One Law I could live with. Please don't say you'd be against that too. Read what you said..in the context it is written in..not the way you want to think you said...Why would you worry about the poor guy and not the rich one? Comes down to money I guess! Who would be able to pay!

Quoting you:
"We cyclists talk about this all the time. It isn't the rich guy driving the $100,000 Mercedes that we have to worry about, but the poor SOB with nothing but $20,000/$40,000 auto insurance, if that, and not a pot to piss in that we have to worry about running us over. They have hardly anything to lose."

As I said..I did not twist your words. If you are that worried about them..don't go on the road with a bicycle... or a car.

We have an awful lot of bicyclists(and motorcyclists) on the road here. Especially foreigners..They go buy a bicycle and spend their vacation bicycling through Yellowstone or Holy Cow..going over the Bighorn Mountains. An 8-9% grade for 15-20 miles?? Going up..then there is the going down. Might be worse because of the hairpin turns.. When they get ready to go home they usually give the bikes to the police depts locally..they give 'em out to needy kids..or use 'em themselves patrolling around town. Nice gesture in my opinion..so even bicyclists have some good things going for them even if they do block the road hahaha LOL