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The reason why?  

Someone in the gov needs excuses to give pork contracts to their
friends.  Any excuse is OK, so long as they can duck and cover.  Why
not a shoelace registration, training and license campaign?  Shoe
laces conceal a wide variety of dangers, including trips and falls,
resultant medicare costs, lost shoes, even  being an obvious tool to
accomplish suicide!  We must protect the holeplessly depressed from
them selves! A new tax on shoelaces should pay for it all, and I
could write another new database application to keep track of those
authorised to sell and purchase shoelaces, for only a few million
dollars.  Hay! if I get the contract, I'll stop criticising,
right;-)?

The gov promotes contempt by it's actions. Time for real reform.
Shrink the gov! If we don't, we need shrinks ourselves.

This is so tranparent that most don't even mention it, they just
grin, bear it, and go down under the table.  The only way to stop
this is to quit working to avoid taxes and starve the buggars to
death. That, or we all go to the steps of the capitol, each with a
pint of rum and an old shoelace, registration fees for the new
party, or one foot of signed rope,  to be tied into a length
sufficient to 'restrain' our favorite politicians' excesses. This
harmless, patently impossible protest method might make for quite a
party. Shades of Rhinoseriousity! Join the "Grey" Party! So long as
the last person to tie one on holds onto his property, these threads
of protest could grow into guite an immoveable ball of string, right
there in the parking lot. Whoever holds the end with at least one
hand would be the party boss, and would have another hand free to
toast the opposition with flammable rum! Such toasting would of
course  require the use of a bumbershoot and a shower curtain, so as
not to adversly contaminate the virgin minds of any young persons
who might see this goings on as perverser than what the gov is doing
to us with our own stolen tax money.

I say we hold politicians accountable for their campaign promises,
as if by offering to stand for, and being elected, they had some
kind of contract with the electorate, who have a right to expect
"Good Government."

Terry K

Bret Johnston wrote:
> 
> Ah yes the common sence equation. Ya just can't teach that... It's almost
> like the Fire Arms regulations, I have a FAC, I took the course and as
> before the course I'm still just as carefull as I always was (and for the
> snippers that's damn carefull, including 28 years military experiance with
> the odd firearm).  They regulate the shit out of me but that still doesn't
> stop the illegal sale of restricted weapons and the nut cases, but what the
> hell I'm regulated.
> 
> The Boat Operator Card does not a competent boat operator make.  That comes
> with common sense and experiance, even the bureocrates in the ivory towers
> should be able to understand that one.  I carry a compass, a GPS, a VHF, a
> sounder, an auxillary moter, flares, fire extinguisher etc. etc. etc. not
> because I'm regulated because it's stupid not to.  I don't go out in bad
> weather, I come in if the weather is worsening, I keep my boat well serviced
> and have a spare everything.
> 
> This is like the fire arms thing, one nut case goes into a college and kills
> a bunch of women, yes indeed an awfull thing but now I'm regulated to death.
> Somebody invents the Personnel Water Craft places the village idot at the
> controls and once again I get regulated.
> 
> End Rant
> 
> Bret
> 
> "AK" <adam.kennedy@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:3c8baaee.1612988919@66.185.95.104...
> > I understand what you are saying - but why would a seasoned mariner
> > take a full day course when he could likely teach it?
> >
> > I challenged the test at the boat show and passed. Did the same thing
> > for the Firearms Aquisition Certificate a few years back.
> >
> > Sure -  a lot of it is common sense -  then again a lot of accidents
> > could be avoided if people excercised that.
> >
> > AK.
> >
> > On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 23:03:06 GMT, "Stinky_Cat" <me@here.com> wrote:
> >
> > >X-No-archive: Yes
> > >
> > >
> > >What's the deal with the CCG's Boat Operator Card?
> > >They to claim to want to improve water safety by forcing people to take a
> > >course and then pass a written exam.
> > >
> > >I was at the boat show two weeks back and there was an outfit there that
> was
> > >promoting themselves by telling people to try the exam and if you did not
> > >pass, you did not pay. It was $40.00 if you passed.
> > >
> > >I'm sure you can see what's going on here.
> > >
> > >I saw young children, and others, passing this test and I know for a fact
> > >they did not pass.
> > >
> > >Of course they are going to pass everyone... at $40.00 a head, how can
> they
> > >not... this is easy money. What a racket!
> > >It does not seem to be regulated at all.
> > >
> > >By the way.. I passed. :)
> > >
> > >SC/*
> > >
> > >
> >