The goal of these campaigns is not to make the roads or water safer. The goal is to make us THINK that they are safer. It doesn’t matter how many boats they check, they can’t check them all. That is the beauty of the MADD lobby, there are no attributable results. Traffic deaths are down because less people can afford to drive, at the same time DUI arrests are up. MADD equates more arrests to safer roads, when in fact it is now the focus of law enforement to pull over anything that moves after 10PM. Why? Because people who get DUIs pay their fines. It’s a money maker for Local and State Government agencies. Budgets are tight, why waste time catching thieves and rapists, they just to jail. People who get DUIs have jobs, go to work, and NEED to be able to drive. So they jump through every hoop the courts lay out for them.
If you listen to MADD it’s an absolute miracle anybody survived this long who was on the roads before 1990. Some of you guys might remember when cops would pull you over, see you were drunk and follow you home to make sure you were safe. Law enforecment\government goal is no longer to make you safe, it’s a self perpetuating cash cow designed to legislate behaviour, and profit on both ends. They tax the booze at 12%-18% on the front end, then fine you up the [censored] for having some.
The government doesn’t want you to stop drinking, and they certainly don’t want you to stop drinking and driving. Their sin taxes are big business.
