Government help: Is the US government meddling too much in our private lives? - Help.com

Now, before you all jump on my rear for driving such an awful vehicle, let me explain:

I’m not one to drive something that is so bad for the environment. Truly. Most of the time, I drive a little four cylinder Cobalt around town.

However, I have three children. All three of my children are still in car seats. Car seats take up more more space than a fat person does in the seat of a car. Therefore, our choice of vehicles was limited. I traded in a 97 Ford Taurus to buy a 2003 Suburban….because I had one child who was in an infant seat; and was pregnant with a second. Though, in that case, we could have fit both car seats in the back of the suburban, we would have had no room for luggage when traveling (and we travel with a cooler full of bread/cereal/etc so that we don’t have to spend as much money eating out)

So, we got a suburban.

The reason we chose a suburban over a mini van is b/c my husb is a state trooper, and he has been to many accidents. In all of those accidents, he has not seen a suburban come out as the “loser” so much as other vehicles. Since we have such precious cargo to protect….three babies, we chose the suburban.

Please read above. I think that there is a very valid reason for having the burb. The only reason we bought it was for safety and ease of travel with a passel of kids.

Not to mention that before our third was born, we were foster parents….we would often have 6 kids at a time in our home. How would you cart 6 kids around??? Would it be better if we had two Tauruses (for example) and drove two vehicles to church; school; etc.

I also want to mention that we were foster parents without pay….never once did we take the payment offered by the state. Therefore, our funds were limited. We would spend Saturday mornings taking our foster kids around town to garage sales. Each kid (ours and foster) got $4 to spend. They were happy with that; as it was “bonding” time…..

So, no, we are not the rich a-holes at the top of the hill who have the best of the best. The burb was purchased purely out of necessity. And now, we have a cobalt that we drive unless we are going on long family trips. The burb sits in the driveway for the most part.

IN ADDITION:

This post is not to ask anyone if it’s “OK” for me to have a burb. It’s to ask about the goverment going too far

LocoLamigra31 wrote:
and yes the government does go way tooo far how ever the only thing i am not against is free health care =) gotta have the right live ma’am.

Agreed :)