Thread: N.Y.: NOT FOR NUTHIN’ - Lowering car insurance – Ha!

10/18/2007
NOT FOR NUTHIN’ - Lowering car insurance – Ha!
By Joanna P. DelBuono

Not for nothing, is Governor Spitzer out of his mind? How naive does he think we are? Giving undocumented (politicalese for illegal) aliens a driver’s license will cut down on accidents and lower insurance rates, AND improve our safety. Right.

I’ve been paying auto insurance since 1973 and collision and fire and theft have always been the highest part of my yearly premium. The only undocumented aliens then were ALF and Mork from Ork, along with an occasional transient farmer or two, and I still paid an arm and a leg. If you were driving without a license, chances are you were a kid taking out your dad’s car for a jaunt through the hood, and as legal as the next guy. So what’s he selling?

Spitzer claims giving illegal aliens a license will allow the state to keep a better watch on them. Hello out there, they are illegal. What doesn’t he get? I want to know how they got in the country in the first place and if we can find them to give them a driver’s license, why can’t we send them back?

He also argues that the license will allow the state to follow their every move, thereby improving our safety. Pshaw. Every year, thousands of students come to the U.S. with a student visa. After a few months in school they disappear, travel under the radar, so to speak, and slip into the country where no one is able to keep track of them. If the state finds it hard to keep track of those with a student visa, what makes Spitzer think a driver’s license is the magic bullet?

The other issue is this: if a license helps to keep track of drivers, how come the state can’t seem to collect all those outstanding traffic violations and fines from out-of-state drivers?

What are the odds that this will work? Hmmm, let me think. A trillion to one? I have a better chance of being hit by a meteor, or a licensed driver for that matter. The state can’t even keep track or collect the fines that are given to legally licensed drivers, let alone track illegal aliens from one state to another. Think again, governor. You’ve driven into a ditch on this little detour.

If history is any indicator, when a politician comes up with a spifendorf, and this one’s a beaut, it’s because he/she is trying to steer us away from an even bigger gaffe, one which usually involves him/her in a very unfavorable way – so what’s the governor hiding? Has he attached himself to a cause or issue that will blow up in his face at any moment or has he just lost his mind? I don’t think he has been in office quite long enough to plead insanity, so what really is at the root of this dementia? Damned if I know.

According to journalist Michael Gormley in an article written October 8 for the Associated Press, “State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long said Spitzer may be playing to more liberal parts of the Democratic party as his poll numbers drop following a scandal that’s grounded Albany since July.â€

Spitzer is an idiot. So the illegals get their license and are magically going to waltz in to a car insurance place and pay for car insurance? Umm, I don't think so. They'll claim hardship or something and then all these illegal alien lovers will DEMAND the US tax payers pay for it through a new program for low income people except the only way to qualify is if you have no SSN (Hey crazier things have happened, I put nothing past these people now and the lengths they'll go to to screw the US tax payer over). It all comes down to finding a way to get illegals to vote because if it truly was about saving US citizens money Spitzer would use that paragraph in the Real ID act giving the illegals permits to drive but when they get their ID it says it isn't to be used as a form of identification so they wouldn't be allowed to use it to register to vote or to use it when they go to the polls to vote.

I was just wondering

Seems like when these illegal invaders go to rent someplace to live they get section 8 assistance.
They use the hospital emergency room as their primary health care provider.
When they go to the grocery store they get food stamps.
In the winter they get heating assistance.
Their children go to our schools.
Cousin Pedro gets free room and board down at the county lockup.

All these services they are lining up for (Cept Pedro of course) are taxpayer funded services.

Will their be some sort of taxpayer funded insurance assistance also?

If they cant pay rent,food,school,health or their heating just what planet did Spitzer come from that he thinks they will pay insurance premiums?

Maybe his good ole buddies own one.