What are you people going on about? It is not against the law to have pot.

MADD is the problem with the DUI laws.  When I learned to drive in the 1960s, the limit in Ohio and most states was .15.
Of course, people got killed in accidents involving all sorts of drivers, drinkers and tee totalers, and as we became more politically correct as a society, MADD got going and succeeded in getting the states to lower the limit to .12; and then to .10.
Not to be satisfied, MADD then went to Congress and sold them on .08 as a limit, which is now the Federal limit - if states didn't lower their limits to .08, the Feds would have shut off all highway money.
Now the fools are pushing for a limit of .05.
To me, a life-long drinker, but not an alcoholic, .15 was about right - at that degree, you should not be driving.  .08 is silly.
Yet, we let people drive who are paraplegic and have only hand controls, we let one eyed and one armed people drive.  We let the elderly drive who get so confused that they can't aim their cars thru a bank drive thru window.  They are more impaired than anyone who may have a BAC of .08.  None of them can react and control the car in an emergency like a normally functioning person can, yet they legally drive with their impairments.
It's all about political correctness folks.

WD wrote on 06/10/13 at 20:56:25:



YOU left out the "I kinda look like Charles Manson & have an attitude like a constipated bear".

I'm not sure that in a purely economic decision, like hiring a person, that there should be any preferences for anything.
Affirmative action is a joke - all that should matter is the applicant's ability to perform the job.

JOG -

My point precisely.  And we wonder why our country has fallen behind European and Asian economies?

I can tell you another of the problems.
The jobs are too bloody easy.
I used to be a specialist in some aspects of Systems analysis and support.
The last time I did that was in 2003. In fact when I was hired for being that specialist, I still worked in garbage 80% of the time.
I can be replaced by a monkey.
So some hottie out of college - no problem.
I am exxagerating, but its pretty close.

We need to stop letting people in under all sorts of random pretexts. There is no job "americans wont do"
We're not going to work all day in the sun harvesting garlic for $2 a bushel and if you dont make 7.50 - too bad we're gonna adjust your hours to look like you only worked 3 hours when you worked 8 ... That we need slave labor ...
I have not in the last 10 years said yes to any moron who wanted me to move to San Francisco for 60K a year to do this or that. I'd promptly say ooo I am getting another call and hang up. When they call me back, I'd say sorry I accepted another offer to go to NYC for 61K cos you only offered 60. But before I had a green card, I had to live in SF and make just enough to scrape by living 50 miles away and commuting 2 hours 1 way.

Cool.
Srinath.