Any of you remember Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown? He was governor of California
in the early 70's. He earned the nickname "Moonbeam" because some of his
ideas on government were rather bizarre :-). I remember two of his
accomplishments while in office - 1) he dated Linda Ronstadt, and 2) he
abolished California's motor vehicle safety inspection program.
Jerry was always looking for ways to reduce the state's budget. He sold the
governor's mansion and lived in an apartment. He drove a ten year old
Plymouth with several hundred thousand miles on it instead of a limo. Then
he found a multi-million dollar item in the state budget - the motor vehicle
safety inspection program. He asked the California Highway Patrol (who ran
the program) to show him the results of spending those many millions of
dollars year after year. They couldn't do it. After ten years of
inspections the accident rate was the same, injuries per accident were the
same, the percentage of vehicles failing the inspections stayed the same.
No matter how they looked at it - nothing had changed. So Jerry axed the
program.
I imagine the safety inspection programs in most other states would probably
fail the test as well.
Rick
(living in Michigan now with no safety or emissions inspections required)
----- Original Message -----
From "Charles Christ" <cfchrist at earthlink.net>
> > i have a pennsylvania state inspection lisc.............
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