We’re So Lucky to Have a Government That Cares

http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/27/tu…strians/print/

So there were seven more pedestrian deaths, a 0.4% increase, during the first six months of 2009 compared to the same time frame in 2010? And somehow this increase has been attributed to the use of personal music devices? Maybe it’s because there are more pedestrians…maybe it’s because of the drumbeat of government studies and public service announcements telling us how fat we are and goading us to get out and exercise. I sense the need for a new term to describe people that attribute misplaced blame on electronic devices…maybe technophobe.

Consider the recent demonization of cell phone use in cars and ipods while walking and biking despite the absence of a statistically significant increase in fatalities. Compare those accidental deaths to the much higher number of deaths due to AIDS and the direct connection to homosexual activity and willful unprotected sex, yet legislation banning that activity has been repealed in our recent past and those folks that raise concern regarding the inherently dangerous gay male lifestyle are labeled homophobes.

Extrapolating from the most recent data there could be around 4000 pedestrian deaths in 2011. Every year there are typically more than 17,000 deaths due to AIDS and nearly 50,000 new cases of diagnosed AIDS each year. And just for the sake of perspective, about a half million people in the US are reported by the CDC to die of cancer annually. So, it seems there are more pressing health risks to be worried about rather than jogging with an ipod. Let your representatives know how you feel about them micro-managing your life!

http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/27/tu...strians/print/


So there were seven more pedestrian deaths, a 0.4% increase, during the first six months of 2009 compared to the same time frame in 2010? And somehow this increase has been attributed to the use of personal music devices? Maybe it's because there are more pedestrians...maybe it's because of the drumbeat of government studies and public service announcements telling us how fat we are and goading us to get out and exercise. I sense the need for a new term to describe people that attribute misplaced blame on electronic devices...maybe technophobe.

Consider the recent demonization of cell phone use in cars and ipods while walking and biking despite the absence of a statistically significant increase in fatalities. Compare those accidental deaths to the much higher number of deaths due to AIDS and the direct connection to homosexual activity and willful unprotected sex, yet legislation banning that activity has been repealed in our recent past and those folks that raise concern regarding the inherently dangerous gay male lifestyle are labeled homophobes.

Extrapolating from the most recent data there could be around 4000 pedestrian deaths in 2011. Every year there are typically more than 17,000 deaths due to AIDS and nearly 50,000 new cases of diagnosed AIDS each year. And just for the sake of perspective, about a half million people in the US are reported by the CDC to die of cancer annually. So, it seems there are more pressing health risks to be worried about rather than jogging with an ipod. Let your representatives know how you feel about them micro-managing your life!