Hi everyone, I am the proud owner of a New Limited Coupe in Oyster Gold. Anyway what does everyone on this forum think of the talk of a new 55 mph national speed limit?

If the speed limit is 55 mph then we will never again get to see our trick spoilers deploy and I feel very sad about that! Can we adjust what speed they deploy at in any way?

 

Here's more "spoiler" info than you probably ever wanted to know.https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...archid=504627;)

 

No speed limit's gonna stop me from exposing my spoiler!
Breakin' the law, breakin' the law............

 

+fireamx, couldn't get that thread link to open...

 

I don't know what happened, but try it now.

 

National speed limit?

Explain more, got a link?

 

Always will have the manual deploy button.

 

Here is one link http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/s...5404686&page=1 but if you google national speed limit you will find endless articles about it.

 

Yeah... If they make the national speed limit, im still not going to drive slower than I do now. Anyways, the whole point of the national speed limit is to make more money for cops.

 

Back in the 70's when the USA tried a 55 mph limit three old Grand Mothers actually drove it. All the rest of us ran 10 to 15 mph over.

Texas Charles

 

It figures the person sponsoring this comes from VA - the state with the highest penalties and most strict rules for speed violators. And slowing does not necessarily reduce accidents... Somebody needs a history lesson. I can't imagine being forced to drive 55 (Sammy Hagar was right)

 

Someone mention Sammy???

Yeah...... not happening

Steve

 

this rule is pointless. technically if you want to drive 55 you can. then for the rest of us who have cars that can handle speeds in excess of 80-90 mph and hardly notice it should stil be able to go whatever speed is safe. i cant imagine going 55 mph at 3 am on an empty freeway. if anything they should just make one lane on the freeway a 55 mph lane and then the rest of the freeway i think should have the same or even raised speed limits.

im dreaming :]

 

I am starting to hate the USA more and more everyday LOL, the problem is there aren't any better places to be

 

There are lots of wonderful countries. Some are arguably "better"...but they won't let us in without a real struggle. They don't want us wrecking the place.

I know you're just joking around. But a proposed 55mph speed limit is the least of our problems. Our right to privacy is no longer.

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2244

The Bill of Rights is under attack.

 

Show me where in the Constitution where it states we have a right to privacy?

 

Itsky-

The U. S. Constitution contains no express right to privacy. The Bill of Rights, however, reflects the concern of James Madison and other framers for protecting specific aspects of privacy, such as the privacy of beliefs (1st Amendment), privacy of the home against demands that it be used to house soldiers (3rd Amendment), privacy of the person and possessions as against unreasonable searches (4th Amendment), and the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination, which provides protection for the privacy of personal information. In addition, the Ninth Amendment states that the "enumeration of certain rights" in the Bill of Rights "shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people." The meaning of the Ninth Amendment is elusive, but some persons (including Justice Goldberg in his Griswold concurrence) have interpreted the Ninth Amendment as justification for broadly reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight amendments.

The question of whether the Constitution protects privacy in ways not expressly provided in the Bill of Rights is controversial. Many originalists, including most famously Judge Robert Bork in his ill-fated Supreme Court confirmation hearings, have argued that no such general right of privacy exists. The Supreme Court, however, beginning as early as 1923 and continuing through its recent decisions, has broadly read the "liberty" guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee a fairly broad right of privacy that has come to encompass decisions about child rearing, procreation, marriage, and termination of medical treatment. Polls show most Americans support this broader reading of the Constitution.

 

That comment frightens me. We are so ripe for overthrow.

Here you go.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt4.html

 

Sex, Politics, Religion, to "Off-topic" with you...

But while we're on the subject....

Freedom comes not without risk and with personal responsibility.

Both of those things for which more and more, people are unwilling to take ownership...

"We don't want little Johnny to be exposed to <XYX>, so everybody has to go without"

and

"It's not my fault I killed so-and-so, 'The voices told me to do it'"...

Now what can I say about sex and religion to really get this thread a rolling...?

 

ppro, I completely agree with both your points - this subject isn't about the Crossfire Coupe, and freedom certainly does come with responsibility. As Americans we have the responsibility to question our government. Democracy doesn't mean kicking back and washing ones hands of what the government does, as though it's not our problem - the government acts in our name. If the United States engages in activities you believe are unwise, dangerous, or morally wrong, either abroad or in our own land, you have the responsibility to object. If we don't, then we're giving tacit approval to the act. We enable it. We're saying it's ok with us. (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice). It's not just little things like speed limits - often times, lives hang in the balance. Questioning the government comes with risks, just as you say, but then America's history is full of heroic risk-takers. Freedom isn't free - that means far more than just military sacrifice alone. Freedom also isn't easy, simple, or a one-shot deal. It takes ongoing effort. We must be skeptical, question our own biases and fears, and work at it. (It's not all about criticism, either. Letting the powers that be know when they do the right thing is important, too. Wish it happened more often. LOL.) We can't expect the miserable American media to do the questioning for us, either. If only it were that convenient.

Anyway, good post.