Quote Of The Month

 Bucko on how government can screw up the best things private industry come up with:

"Someone invented a safety system called 'Antilock braking' It was good, so car manufacturers started adding it to thier cars

The government saw it was good and decided to get involved. 

They said, if you have ABS brakes on your car, the system has to work correctly, so it's now part of the MOT 

The MOT testers said, we can't check that without taking the car out onto a track? 

Someone else invented the ABS sensor, which checks if the system is working, and provides a computer generated fault if it is not 

Good job, trebles all round 

Now cars are regularly failing their MOT because of an ABS fault. 999 times out of 1000, the fault is not with the system, but with the sensor, so the sensor has to be replaced People who make the sensor, sell a lot of sensors, while everyone's ABS systems continue to work correctly 

Intervention by the government caused a problem where none exists 

Meanwhile, the lefties see the number of cars failling on an ABS fault, and tell us that the free market is not working, because private industry keeps making faulty ABS braking systems that are putting lives at risk 

Something should be done, etc..."