This is what your senators are doing with their time and consequently your money;
Florida (and many more places) tax dollars are going to create laws to make people not wear their pants a certain way. This is ridiculous. Creating a law to make people not wear ultra baggy jeans.
Yes, wearing jeans that hang down to your ass crack looks not only completely IDIOTIC, it is juvenille. And if you think about it in a gangsta* mentality it still doesn’t make sense because you cannot run from the cops properly if your pantscrotch is at your knees.
That being said, our government does NOT need to be in the business of telling idiots how to dress in school.
“Lawmakers” are the problem because their very existence and paycheck depends upon making laws. Therefore there is is an endless river of superfluous, kneejerk garbage laws such as this one.
Plus, I am sure there is already a public decency law they can employ if someone’s ass crack is exposed in public.

Please remember this phrase:
LESS GOVERNMENT.

The government should give us roads, police, firemen, schools, protect us from terrorists and run the whole thing like a business. As I have said, there are no 500 dollar hammers in ANY corporation anywhere.
Other than that the citizens need to be left alone to create their lives and the children should be given a sound beating if they act like savages.
A good beating goes a long way.

Please note that a Democrat is leading the charge of this waste of taxpayer dollars.

* forgive me for that

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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - The Florida Senate wants public school students to pull up their pants. Lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that could mean suspensions for students with droopy britches.

It won’t become law unless the House of Representatives passes a companion measure.

Florida could join several southern U.S. towns and cities that have passed “saggy pants” laws aimed at outlawing what some teenagers consider a fashion statement – wearing pants half way down their buttocks, exposing flesh or underwear.

Supporters say schools sometimes don’t properly police dress codes and parents are often “under aware” of what their kids are wearing to school.

Critics say the measure is unnecessary, arguing that appearance and dress codes should be the responsibility of school districts and parents.

Despite being the butt of jokes, the bill’s sponsor, Orlando Sen. Gary Siplin, a Democrat, has said the fashion statement has a back-story – it was made popular by rap artists after first appearing among prison inmates as a signal they were looking for sex.

“All we’re trying to do now is trying to inform folks that we have a fad now that does not have a very good origination,” Siplin said. “We’re trying to make an example in school,” he added, saying it would help students get jobs and a degree.

The Florida city of Riviera Beach passed its own saggy pants law Tuesday, with a maximum penalty of 60 days in jail for repeat offenders.

(Reporting by Michael Peltier, editing by Jim Loney and Todd Eastham)

link to article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080314/od_nm/saggy_odd_dc_1

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