To: JustSayNoToNannies
Add-up the “fully voluntary and privately-funded initiative costs”, if you can get a true accounting of it. Doubt you can. I’d bet the cost per ‘hugged’ child is astronomical. Not saying they weren’t worth it.
Read first 3 paragraphs of this article; then multiply by 1,000s:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19871006&id=PJszAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4752,1136910
Next, get some true, accurate drug-use stats - not just gov’t-doctored numbers to look good for public consumption - and it’ll be clear that drug-alcohol use is up. Way up.
17 posted on
06/11/2012 9:54:13 AM PDT by
Carriage Hill
(All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
To: carriage_hill
then multiply by 1,000s Why?
drug-alcohol use is up. Way up.
I don't see where this program ever claimed it'd help anyone other than participants.
18 posted on
06/11/2012 9:58:36 AM PDT by
JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
To: carriage_hill
Next, get some true, accurate drug-use stats - not just gov’t-doctored numbers to look good for public consumption - and it’ll be clear that drug-alcohol use is up. Way up. If so, it means that our national drug policy has been an epic failure.
Doesn't the Tenth Amendment mean that the states should decide intrastate drug policy - even if it means legalization of pot in some states?
31 posted on
06/11/2012 8:01:45 PM PDT by
Ken H
(Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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