Prescription drugs are indeed a issue but we canot deny or pretend that meth and cocaine herion and illegally produced Fentanyl are are killers . they all kill and are comming from south America .
They cost untold billions in damages to our nation yearly
If that was directed at me, you really missed the mark. I have to keep repeating the same points over and over. Here is an excerpt from a recent sermon (used with permission):
The average American starts their journey with having been prescribed
Adderall or
Ritalin for the non-existent condition of ADD / ADHD as a child. By high school they advance to
opioids (whether legal or illegal.) Some of them will end up on
SSRIs and mild to hard core drugs from
marijuana to
heroin. Many will become alcoholics. By their teens they have twenty tattoos on their bodies and a lot of body piercings; they have acquired a drug habit and a criminal record; they don't have a driver's license nor a high school diploma.
The United States represents 4.4 percent of the world's population and
22 percent of the world's prison population. Americans consume over
80 percent of the world's opioid supply. For every drug addict that is in a mental health facility, you have more than
TEN drug addicts serving their time in prison. We have more people in prison than any nation on the planet.
And so, we have those who will swear up and down that these so - called "
illegal" aliens somehow manage to wait in long lines all day and break the welfare system
and steal (sic) your jobs at the same time. They cannot stand the reality that the undocumented workers, by and large, get an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number and pay the SS taxes. They pay
$12 BILLION DOLLARS per year into Socialist Security and will never be able to take one thin dime out in retirement.
The reality is, drug cartels exist due to America's insatiable appetite for drugs. Furthermore, with the bulk of our citizenry being drug addicts, alcoholics, and people with a criminal history with no job skills, no coping skills, no education and an inability to focus they are
unqualified to be in today's job market. Most of them spend their time in mommy's basement or maybe in government housing, pecking on their keyboards all day long, blaming so - called "
illegal aliens." While they are suggesting that I join them in taking drugs and drowning myself in booze, I'm more likely to be searching the patches of woods in my neighborhood for the homeless. I'm trying to take those people to shelters, get them into rehab programs, and give them a reason to clean up their act and become productive.
As Americans, the parents turned the rearing of their children over to the doctors and the government. Those people used Big Pharma instead of dealing with dysfunctional homes. Now we have an entire generation of misfits that cannot function. T
Even if we could force the so - called "
illegal aliens" out and build a wall around America, it could only minimize the numbers of people here. What it
cannot do is to rehabilitate those who are on drugs and alcohol. It cannot educate those people or do something that would lead to the expungement of their criminal records. It won't get rid of the tattoos and body piercings that make people look like circus freaks. It won't help them to be able to read ten paragraphs and have a civil conversation. It won't help them with problem solving skills.
As long as the government is paying people
NOT to work - and I have family members (just as
ALL of you do and some of you doing it yourselves) that accept a government check in lieu of working a job, the real issue continues. It's easier to take that $1200 to $1500 a month (depending upon where you live) and blame those who are merely filling the void you leave behind than it is to clean up your act and become a
productive citizen. If we get our own cleaned up, rehabilitated, educated, and able to hold a conversation and read a newspaper, the immigration issue would solve itself. So, when people are urging me to join them in the drug and booze culture, you pretty much see what the
REAL problem is. I started a ministry to address this need to get the downtrodden back on their feet. At this point, we could use a little help and a lot less attitude from snowflakes and welfare recipients Hell bent on blaming everyone but themselves for their own shortcomings. (end of sermon quote)
The build the walls don't want those people to get a second chance; they don't want them rehabilitated. The build the wall guys want those people to carry around a scarlet letter on their head (the modern version is an inaccurate record of a person's life freely given by Uncle Scam as a background check.) They want to the foreigners out and then they don't want employers to hire the Americans. Their position is consistent only with inconsistency.
