nobody takes the fake news, right wing seriously.
Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?
Give your money to someone else and make yourself poorer for their sake or STFU.
Cut our useless wars on crime, drugs, and terror; you all cheapskates don't want to pay wartime tax rates for them, anyway.
Actually I agree that the 'war on drugs' is a failure and I think we would agree on that. I am for legalizing drugs. I am not monolithic.
Ok.... so just out of curiosity.... what do you plan to do with all the millions of people whose families will be ripped apart and destroyed by drugs? What do you plan to do with all the addicts that are on the streets of San Fransisco, because of drugs?
It's easy to say just legalize drugs..... but what do you do with the fall out from that? I agree the war on drugs has been a failure, because we have not actually engaged in war. We called it that, but haven't really done anything. Addicts are all over the place, and no one does anything. That's not any definition of 'war' i know of.
The irony is, we complain about the problems that drugs has on our society all the time, without realizing it.
One of the reasons we have homeless beggars all over the place, is because they get addicted to drugs, can't keep a job, and end up begging on the street.
So what do you see the solution as?
Families are ripped apart and destroyed by drugs now in great part because of its illegal status. Cost is highly over-inflated, doses are unknown, content of the drug is unknown and may be 'cut' with unknown substances. Criminals, gangs and guns become part of the distribution system.
There is far more 'fall out' now because they are criminalized and anyone who uses them is a criminal. We saw the 'fallout' from the criminalization of alcohol. The effects of drugs do not cause criminal activity.
The highly, over-inflated cost of illegal drugs is one of the reasons people spend all their $$ and may become homeless. If these drugs were made legal we could actually help those people if they needed it and they would have access to cheaper, safe doses.
No. Just no.
I am talking about families in Colorado right now, being torn apart by legally purchased drugs.
I am talking about families in California right now, being torn apart by legally purchased drugs.
I know this is happening, because I support charities that deal with such people. They send out news letters to donors talking about the services they provide, and this is the fastest growing area.
This is like when Columbus Ohio, where I live, legalizing gambling casinos, and the very first thing that happened was a bunch of gambling addiction centers opened, because people started blowing their pay checks, and ended up being foreclosed on, and leaving their families homeless.
Again, with the alcohol, same deal. The reason it didn't work, is because we did not enforce it. We know that you can actually have laws that work, if you are willing to enforce them. We know this because there are countries all over the middle east, where they don't have alcohol. Prohibition would have worked, if we had enforced it.
Here in the US, we had police, politicians, and everyone, defending the alcohol shippers. FDR himself, was said to have alcohol at the white house.
When the people in charge, are activity subverting their own laws..... it's not the law that caused the crime, it was the people charged with enforcing the law.
