"Let em' work, let em' live."

So they are paving the highway I drive on to get to work and its in SC. Well I just noticed that on their road construction signs they have the above slogan. They don't have this slogan that I'm aware of in NC. I find this saying to be most peculiar because it assumes that me the driver am out to kill road workers. I know its their way of warning me to slow down and pay extra attention to the construction thats happening but it just makes me laugh. The saying really doesn't even make good sense. I will let them work therefore I am letting them live. And if they're not working then its perfectly ok for me to kill them at my leisure? And who came up with this slogan? The image of road construction and caution does not evoke this saying in my brain. Its just odd to me.... so I will let them work and if they're really really nice, I will let them live.

So after just writing this I did a search and found out that it is a snazzy add campaign to make drivers aware that road workers are real people to with families and such. Wow I thought they were robots, thanks DOT!

http://www.dot.state.sc.us/Events/workzone/ad_campaign.shtml