Slava
Premium
join:2001-02-04
Fair Lawn, NJ
clubs: 
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| big deal over nothing
Lying brokers at banks gave out mortgages to many people who could not afford it are they being held accountable?
Many homeowners who were subject to predatory lending practices,including brokers who misrepresented payments are trying to rework their loans.
Why not just send them all to jail?
Why worry about wifi that can be easily secured by the host and eliminates all chances of theft?
Maybe it's just me, but to me this is silly and there are many more pressing needs out there then worry about your neighbor possibly sharing your wifi signal. |
TScheisskopf
World News Trust
join:2005-02-13
Belvidere, NJ
 ·Sprint Broadband D..
| Sadly, it is the almost exclusive domain of ineffectual backbench politicians who want to make a name for themselves to introduce laws that address things that are fundimentally not a problem, or of such low probability of causing widespread societal damage as to be negligable. It gives them something to point to, at campaign time, ans crow "Ain't I just sumthin'? Look at what I did to protect you!". It's politics at its basest level. Both parties play it with nauseating regularity. A lot of tightly special interest laws come into effect this way.
Here in NJ, we have a long and scabrous history of this sort of lawmaking. Any act, behavior or social trend that gets anyone's knickers in a twist, no matter how trivial, eventually gets made illegal. What this has resulted in is a lot of chaos. Case in point: There are over 300 ways to lose your driver's license in NJ. Less than 100 have anything to do with driving. What is the effect of this orgy of driver's license suspension? Loss of license is the #1 cause of people going on welfare and a huge contributor to childhood poverty and family breakup. Because our mass transit could not suck more, fully 80% of people with a first license suspension get a second offense for driving on the suspended list. Because they have to work. Feed their family and whatnot.
This is what cheap, retail lawmaking causes. Because it's easier than addressing the real problems. |
