On Fox News this evening, I saw news item that I found somewhat ridculous. It was about a "Save lives on the I's" campaign being run by some government authority in Illinois (my dearest home state). The objectives and the intention is great. They want to prevent accidents and save lives on the highways during the labor day long weekend. Great! But whats the point in coming out a giving a needless press release about a campaign? The guy on the press release said that we want to keep the roads safe. It sounded to me like, "let me tell you how bad I want to keep my job and hence how bad I want to create a hype around this". Can't they just do their job (and do it better on labor day)? Whats the point in raising an unnecessary scare just to make oneself important. That is like George Bush & Mike Chertoff creating the 5 threat levels and having TV channels trumpet about it everyday on news...
Anyway, governments are governments. Most of the things they do are needless.
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