[JimRed]

So your solution is to put more of them in jail where you will be paying somewhere between $30,000 to $60,000 a year for each of them?

No, I prefer Sheriff Joe's system. Desert tents, bologna sandwiches, and workdays serving the public good. Chain gangs and P-farms, too, like the old south. As for their kids, we used to have a thing called charity that took care of the needy. We still would if government had not inserted itself into that role. But forced charity is simply robbery renamed.

Executing dealers would be very effective, but since it would get too many libs in an uproar, see my profile for an alternate proposal.

[Orangedog]

Yeah, I suppose just minding our own business and quit paying the welfare checks would be too easy. It just doesn't count if heads aren't being cracked and people aren't being told how to run their lives.

Something I've noticed about what passes itself off as "conservatism" lately is that they have no desire to just cut welfare and food stamps. And why should they? It's their perfect excuse for meddling in the personal lives of the entire US population and gives them what has in the past been an easy out when called on their hypocritical bulls**t about being for small government.