Posted On: September 27, 2006, 3:28 am CDT

Posted By: Mike

I got my license before car insurance was required in Oregon. As a Polio victim I'm ambulatory challenged and my driving privilege is very important to me. I've not had an uninsured accident ever. While living on disability I've always paid my premiums bi-annually. It's costing me 2/7 of my income twice a year to keep my insurance paid up. This ontop of the fuel costs everyone else is paying. I relocated to a rental after a recent divorce with plans to stick close and try to save my marriage. A few months after moving in the dwelling failed building codes and could have cost me my life. With nowhere else to stay I found myself staying at Walmart with the RV group until i could get my affairs in order and return to Oregon. Where I lived for most of my driving life. My credit has been severely damaged through all of this. What money this law(measure 42) takes from me should go toward my debtors not greedy insurance moguls. If a person looses their job because an employer favors to hire illegals in an effort to increase his bottom line. Your credit could go down and insurance go up. If your rebuilding your life in New Orleans it may in fact be some act of God that destroy's your credit. Hindsight is 20/20 you never know for sure what life will bring you. Going with credit based premiums seems like gambling with your future to drive. We all know of someone who was on top of the world one day and the bottom the next. Keep it simple keep what we have and say Yes on 42.

The right to freedom of movement is a basic element of liberty.One of our basic freedoms, the freedom of movement has returned to imprison those least likely to afford a car let alone insurance as it is. While we are asked to rebuild bombed out nations that have moved to encrouch upon the American Life style and the freedoms we enjoy.

I don't have a phone because of the costs of keeping a car.