How Automobile Airbags Connect with Revolution Against Cancerous Governments

So how safe are airbags? Since the government instituted a law that mandates all new cars sold in the United States must come equipped with these safety measures, and we all know that the only reason legislation ever gets signed into law in America is because our lawmakers have only our best interests at heart and certainly aren't swayed into passing unnecessary laws just to enrich the bank accounts of businesses, surely automobile airbags must be saving millions of lives every day, right? A 2003 report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration concluded that airbags in cars had saved about 3500 lives that would otherwise have been lost. That in itself is not a particularly impressive figure, especially when one considers the amount added to the price of tag of a new simply because Congress gave in to lobbyists from the airbag producing industry, but when you toss in the fact that in the same study the NHTSA found that airbags killed 113 people who would otherwise not have been killed can only lead one to the conclusion that just as the government engendered an unnecessary fear of terrorists among us, so have they engendered undue fears of dying in an automobile accident unless one's vehicle comes equipped with an exploding marshmallow.

The introduction of automobile airbags was hailed as the next great breakthrough in car safety; they would work even on those people who refuse to buckle up. Even state and local governments committed one of the most ridiculous intrusions into personal liberty by criminalizing the act of not fastening one's seatbelt, there were many rebels and dissenters who refused to be strapped in by these Torquemada-like tools of torture. The safety issue, alas, was the not overriding concern. The automobile industry at the time of the development of airbags, at least for American cars, was on the downswing. With superrich millionaires and fake heroes like Lee Iacocca simply refusing to understand that happy workers are hard workers, the once vaunted American automobile manufacturing machine was positively anemic. Sales were down; even worse so were profits. The bloodsucking lobbyists for the auto industry descended upon Washington and used every tool in the book form drugs to women to convince our lawmakers that 20 million dollar bonuses for CEOs driving an entire industry into the ground with their greed just, dang it, wasn't enough. It has been estimated the regulation that requires airbags to be installed has jacked the price up on automobiles by as much as four thousand dollars. Once you multiply the thousands of cars that are sold each year, well, how much does that come out to how many millions per lives that have been saved? And how many tens of millions per unnecessary death of mostly child victims?

It is simply stunning how many people get upset over the intrusion of the government into their lives by demanding that nobody has the right to regulate the ownership of guns, despite the fact that their beloved Second Amendment clearly indicates the intention was only for Americans to possess guns as part of non-conscription military intervention organization, yet they accept without question the enforcement of a device on the second biggest investment most of them will make. Airbags are not inside every car made today because of the validity of their use in preventing deaths or critical injuries. That ticking time bomb waiting to go off is the result of typical government for the rich people that America has become. The past six years have only strengthened the hold that the superrich-or his "base" as Pres. Bush likes to call them-have on every aspect of society.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Elections won't end the madness that is taking place in America. What will? Open your history books and look at the years 1776, 1789 and 1917.