European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday july 27, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 11 Washington we see the advertise units in newspapers and magazines. Paid for by the insurance companies toe ads peal to All members of the Public who May someday serve on juries every Mewe award a plaintiff a settlement in an a Odens Case we Are ourselves a in t the insurance companies who will differ we Are told but the Public because then we decide in favor of the plaintiff the companies have no Choice but to raise our Don t know about you but the Adver sements have persuaded have this fantasy that to on the jury Oft giant negligence Case. We be Beard Allie evidence and we Are now Back in the jury room trying to arrive at a Foreman of the jury Speaks first. A right this is an open and shut track Driver rammed into the victims car. Offing both parents and Leavar four.,orphans. The evidence indicated the brakes on the truck were faulty and the rocking company sent it out on the Road my. How much Money do we Watt i cry there s More at stake Tan that what about the tracking company s insurance people what win Happ Enlo ban if we award a sizable sum of Mon t to the children they la have to pay a juror says. But it will eventually come oat of our pockets yours and what the hell Are you talking about i Don t you read the ads i said. Every time a jury awards a Large sum of Money to the victims of an Accident we. The Public have to eventually pay for tithe insurance companies Arent in Busi Ness for their Aneth what Are theyer juror wants to k. 0owets, have to ban them our �ttk"s7a ntntsej1teclnstce company win get Hurt till. M i to a should about it carefully. Why should we poor insurance company which the Case will Only punish us Ingmore than a new Job to payoff when they lose. Tim it exactly the attitude that is driving insurance rates up All Over the country every time a Case gets to court we say let the insurance company pay through Hearse. Why cant we be the first jury today. Enough is enough. Weill not Reward peo to for negligence committed by another party ? Don t you see we have it in our Power to Stop spiralling in Soracoe costs once and for what have you been smoking one of the jurors asks. And i shout ill go along wit whatever award Yoo want to make. But when the insurance company has to sell it employees Golf course to pay for this ease it win be on the conscience of every person in this � has Zinberg been misquoted in reference to a recent article in thesauri and Snipes on disagreement erupts on i drug i would like to add a few comments. Has or. Norman Zinberg been misquoted or is the government crazy for Al lowing a Man with such ideas on drag use be chairman of the panel on drug use for Al president s commission on mental health. Limo can f Odom to foil Kirmit _.jj��lw�mcmvnatil7 Gmo in n9mcie\imm Pikow a Muur Dur Tea. Muqarr com m my Loury i fees 0rmtr. To Coli Len in 5 bpm Tel Mem Pitt 5?"��. Met mad my Fik Tif an co m of m v. I refer to the last paragraph of the Arti Cle where or. Zinberg. In reference to ran Dom urine tests stated. The aim should be to set up a rational policy a decent Way of doing business to find people in trouble and not same kid who oed a drug occasionally and a creation a you or. Zinberg feels that occasional and recreational use of drugs is All right he has a problem and he is a problem. The use of no prescribed drugs is illegal in Europe the array and most of the states. Breaking the Law in this area is like break ing the us in any other area. No citizen has the right to choose which Laws be Willobey and wbk be win break. This decays the entire fund mental system of our government the department of the army policy on drug abuse which i am sure had Whitehouse blessings is outlined in army regu lation 60ms which implements Dod Alco hol and drug program us � my s drug program is a com ass program comprised of such prevention identification and Reha identification is the key to sues is ssh helping these sols itt _. Katar a drug us letters to the editor set Jik 5nzss17s�k set pro. Germany that in reminder responses to unt axing letter t read with great interest the letter recently regarding the California tax Cut. feel compelled to take Issue with some of the Points first a government is not to take care of All the people who can t take care of them selves but rather to govern the people whom they supposedly represent according to those people s wishes. If they do not do their Job in accordance with this criteria to is the people s Job to remove them from office. They Are. After All elected to represent the peo ple not manage them although today s government has seemingly lost sight of this differentiation would the writer care to speculate on the outcome of everyone trying to Lake care of themselves without the encumbrance of a centralized form of government mass chaos would be the inevitable , the tax increase that was voted Down in the Best democratic tradition i was Felt by the taxpayer to be excessive and therefore unfair. Indignation had nothing to do with it. People who an Clear thinking enough to rally their efforts to such a Victor Are also too intelligent to let such childish emotions Cloud their goes on to mention a is billion surplus True such a surplus did exist. This brings to Light the question of How can a state with such a surplus possibly ask for an increase on what was steady a High tax third All those Public services being done away with because of the reduction re member the tax was Only scaled Down not eliminated entirely of one tax is purely Pessi mistic conjecture. School Road and other taxes All fund various services. None Are entirely if at All dependent upon property taxes. If indeed Public services most suffer to is rather an indication of How inefficient an mismanaged the Agency responsible for the allocation and use of said funds have be come. Better to eliminate waste needed spending and bureaucratic excesses t massive salaries expense accounts and pensions to name a few. Next the mention of Uncle Sam buying too Many tanks and bombers to play can anyone who faces an adversary such As the soviet Union have too Strong a de sense according to the recently installed head of naval affairs even Russia s Navy out numbers ours by four to one. The soviet Union is one massive War machine whose entire Economy is geared to the production of new. Deadlier weapon systems witness the ss-18 missile the backfire bomber. Against such admittedly formidable Odds How can any defense implements be termed toys ? new defense weapons and systems Are directly tied to my last Point is not a Means by which those who Don t work or pay taxes can legally take the Money of those who rather it is a program which is set up for those who Are unable to work because of disability or other reason. It is also a fund which families in need of assistance or special Aid medical help for the poor or expensive therapeutic de vices for handicapped children can draw upon. It like unemployment is paid into by All of us. But if you lost your Job through a Lay offi perhaps As a result of a cutback in Federal defense spending for example would the writer Nave any qualms about accepting unemployment in my Home state unemployment is unobtainable unless you have been Laid off eligibility for unemployment disqualifies Yoa from collecting welfare which is As it should a steel town such As Pittsburgh my Home Many thousands of jobs Are lost when Uncle Sam decides to please the conservatives and not buy any More tanks and bombers another toys. Would you of to pay then Bills for them lastly irresponsible pc hardly the term for those of us who still care enough about our country to take the democratic process of self government and make it work. I m sure if they thought they were really going to bankrupt the state they would have never take such action. Rather they have taken a decisive step in regaining what Little measure is left to the people of their voice in their , excessive taxation and governmental waste must end. And the people telling the Legislatures that they must make do with the present tax system places the Ball squarely in the lawmakers laps hopefully they will not retaliate by cutting the services which the people take for but by finding ways to stretch the Dollar improve the Economy and better serve the people who put them in office. Yelling to make your voice heard is what it s All about. After All. It was a fight against unfair taxation that turned 13 Little colonies into a world Power spec. 4 David a Stem let. Darmstadt. Germany 91 it s great to take an open and Active opinion concerning schools government religion and others but to run off a make believe Story and then fallow it up with a moral that includes examine All the facts is kind of like saying Yon follow the Rales i Don t have 10 proofs ration 13 is approximately four weeks old now California in t broke yet. Children Aren Tiff iterate yet crime in t rampant and i m sure there s Jusi As Many Pel holes inthe roads now As there was a month ago. I like to believe that one of the principal reasons that has mad America the greatest Nationn the world is the american people Are not afraid of dumps. And have a natural be got to give everything a dunce especially when the majority want if by the men fact that site proposition passed proves falsely a previous writer s statement. Government is a elected to take care of All the people who can t take care i a sir proposition 13 b actually reminding our government that we the people can take exr of ourselves. And if they our elected servants i not off Idalu can t Cope Wuh the Avn ands of the majority then they re in the wrong treat oko the greatest abutters a writer can possess is the capability to Inte Tosh fart my fiction successfully. The fiction was food to Little bit on the cliche set a simply due to the fact there Are no facts As yet promo Guion 13 has t eve got a Good Start yet this is in regards to the a nuking Story Witt a moral that appeared recently to the ctr Felt much better r of the allegorical Law a hang a bit premature. I say. Give u a year a comes of As you say.rnbuy4t. But not until then. William j. . German
