Crime Extended in America

    As a born/bred Manhattanite, Lewis was never encouraged to get a Driver's License.  He is finally applying for one: a result of my encouragement.  However, this morning's Local News featured a segment about a 21-year-old who has already been allowed to accumulate 81 license suspensions!  !!!  What kind of lenient/crappy country do we live in?  

    Where does the young guy live?  Long Island, where I grew up.  Well, that figures!  Leading ever-increasingly-corrupt America, Long Island and NYC are the worst at enforcing laws.  A coworker--watching the same TV--commented, "He must have a friend who's a cop, to wipe away all of those suspensions."  That doesn't make me feel better about New York's overpaid-yet-ineffective police.

     You must remember that America's government doesn't care if you live or die; they collect taxes when you're born, when you earn money, when you give that money, when you die, and when you inherit money.  The only purpose of American government is to ensure the collection of the money that sustains it.  It doesn't care about the betterment of social behavior.  That's why corporate crimes go unpunished, imprisonment for "white collar" crime is lenient, criminals are released so many times, wars are sustained, infrastructure is ignored, and citizens' right are infringed.  It's why criminals with long "criminal records" are still set free amidst the public, often committing more crimes.  In other countries, if you're convicted of robberies four times, you're not easily released from prison to rob again.  

      Such a phenomenon is typical of a suburb that condones "illegal day laborers", while penalizing drivers who don't wear seat-belts.  It's typical of a state that's content collecting violation fines from slumlords, instead of shutting down those slums and ensuring healthy standards of living for all tenants.  Typical of a country that releases repeated-criminals (as the film "Ocean Eleven" makes fun of)--or makes mega-criminals into celebrities (as the film "Wolf of Wall Street" makes fun of).  
     Against its own laws, America's government doesn't care about the risks to society or the dangers to taxpayers... it only cares about collecting money/fines.  

     Sadly, lazily unmotivated tax-payers allow it.