[Trayderjoe]

Originally Posted by justjim

More people, more cars and trucks, and busier highways mean more accidents. Add to that more irresponsible people and cheap alcohol (also drugs) and you have a serious situation. There are few, if any, answers. In recent years we put a heavy tax on tobacco and with part of the money have advertised the problems of tobacco. We now have fewer smokers. Perhaps making it more expensive to consume too much alcohol could help.....(opening the door for naysayers now) “Government is not charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world”. Abraham Lincoln 1859. The lack of personal responsibility didn’t start recently.

Originally Posted by graciegirl

That bears repeating, so I will.

The lack of personal responsibility didn't start recently.

100% agree that there is a lack of personal responsibility and wish to re-emphasis the quote by Abraham Lincoln regarding the government.