Question for Smokers . . . . . . . . .

[thurlow]

AND................since we're rantin' and ravin' about smoking, let me tell about you my plan to fix the penal code(s).  The FF members could work out the details, but essentially it's this;  no one ever gets locked up again.  White collar criminals would be forced to make restitution..........someone could force 'em; I've been forced to do a bunch of stuff I didn't want to do. 

All other crimes would be assigned a "point" system.  No judge or jury would know about the criminal's accumulated points.  When 100 points was reached, execution........no appeal, no waiting, just be carried out behind the courthouse and hanged.  Sample points.........1st degree murder.....100pts;  2nd degree murder........55 pts. (everyone gets one free one);  armed robbery......35 pts;  burgulary......26 pts;  aggravated rape.......100pts;  rape......95 pts.( one free one);  assault.......30 pts, etc.  You don't like the assigned points, we can change 'em.  8) 8) 8) 8)

[TexasTimbers]

Hey Kevjay, let me tell you how I feel...>

Hey you are preaching to the choir brother.  8)

If you were to glean my posts you'd see that I have basically said everything Tom did , in bits and pieces, except I am not as eloquent either.  

[Gary_C]

Pigman, how did you get the government to pay you $288 for not growing corn? They let me plant anything I want to now and long ago quit paying to not plant.

Thurlow, Could we get a point discount for shooting people like lawyers?   :D

If you remember, the MN Attorney General won a huge lawsuit against the tobacco companies. The Atty Gen hired an outside law firm to handle and their lead attorney got an obsene payment in the hundreds of millions of dollars plus Blue Cross of MN got their name on the suit and wound up with about half of the money which I am sure they put to good use. The state of MN was supposed to put that money in a special fund for smoking related programs, but when the general fund ran short, they raided that fund.

Also, MN has a work comp assement that is earmarked for grants to make your workplace safer, but they did not give out enough grants and they regularly transfer the surplus to the general fund.

You just can't trust politicians with money.  >:(

[pigman]

Pigman, how did you get the government to pay you $288 for not growing corn? They let me plant anything I want to now and long ago quit paying to not plant.

I don't like government handouts, don't understand government handouts, but when they deposit the money in my bank account I keep it. ;D

Bob

[Larry]

Lot of farmers get paid to not grow stuff...course sometimes a little arm twisting required...well maybe a lot of arm twisting required in the tobacco settlements.

Heard a new one this morning...got some land in a crucial watershed and the government can't deprive me of my development rights.  So the government wants to pay me to not develop?  Don't laugh...already a law in 23 states from what I read.

[PineNut]

Gary_C.  We have the same problem with politicians here in MS. Tobacco settlement money was to be invested and earnings to be used for health issues. But the politicians raid the fund. It goes back to the basic question, How do you know when a politician is lying?  His lips are moving.