Posted on 03/17/2017 1:14:53 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Vance announced in January, and details in a New York Times op-ed this week, his plan to transplant his native Californian wife and himself from Silicon Valley back to his home state of Ohio. They’ve picked Columbus as a desirable location (with a big enough airport) as Vance operates a new organization focused on combating opioid abuse in the state.
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Amazing book.
Wonderful, searing book. This is one terrific veteran. Hope his new mission is very fulfilling, and that his wife makes a good adjustment. The near midwest ain’t California!
Obama’s VA has already taken the first step in this effort by denying appropriate pain medication to veterans.
Relocating to Columbus...
Coincidence?
http://www.investopedia.com/news/amazon-prime-now-deliver-alcohol-amzn/
I think not.
I predict this will not end well.
Native CA very seldom leave CA without a big, expensive divorce.
Back 20 years ago, you could recognize native CA by their relaxed attitude about most things.
Not the way it is now.
Next, they’ll be delivering opiods?
I hope he follows the lessons learned from his book.
The opiod problem in America, particular among whites, is an existential, spiritual and cultural crisis - not an economic one.
Much of the heroin problem is created by black tar heroin, which is far more addictive than the brown cartel heroin. It comes from Mexico and the dealers are nearly always illegal aliens. Black tar heroin has destroyed communities across the country, communities that previously had no heroin problem. The dealers are, for whatever reason, ordered to sell only to whites.
Hillbilly Elegy is on my reading list.
Big enough airport? He can't even fly to Northern California from there, can he? Better bets would have been Toledo (near the very busy Detroit airport) or Cincinnati (near the roughly same sized Frankfort, Ky, airport. Even Cleveland can get you somewhere on the west coast besides LA.
Best wishes to Mr. Vance and his wife. It is a very important issue.
Well, you out yourself as not having bothered to read the article. And you, apparently, dont' even know who the article is about.
Geez, why not read the cited articles? Many a Freeper has made himself the fool for not bothering.
I occasionally wonder if letting addiction take its course isn't a good option. The general impression is that rehabilitation works about 15% of the time. In other words an 85% failure rate. And treatment is very expensive.
The folks who are addicted consume welfare benefits, commit lots of property crimes to feed their addiction, and are involved in lots of violent crimes, both at their level and upstream throughout the distribution networks. The concentration of wealth that is created by production and distribution of illegal drugs funds destabilization of countries in central and south America. Honduras has a homicide rate of 90 per 100,000 per year. Because it is the major trans-shipment point for drugs from South America (e.g., Columbia) to the United States.
I do not participate in the illegal drug industry or community. Except to the extent that I am a taxpaying citizen of the United States, and therefore bear much of the cost. It appalls me to hear people proclaimed as experts say that we need to destigmatize drug use. The opposite is true, we need to stigmatize it to the nth degree, and impress all children from a young age that things like heroin should not be touched.
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