Posted on 02/03/2016 4:20:20 PM PST by george76
Any politician who claims to care about the drug overdose deaths sweeping the nation, but does not demand that we build a wall, deport illegal aliens and end the anchor baby scam, is a liar.
In 2014, more people died from drug overdoses than any year in U.S. history: 47,055. That's more than die in car accidents -- and it's not even close.
This is a huge, horrible problem -- and it's a problem caused entirely by the fact that Mexico is on our southern border.
The diverse, hardworking people of Mexico manufacture the majority of heroin in the U.S. and import "nearly all" of it, according to a 2014 Washington Post report.
The media and political class respond to this fact by asking themselves: How do we blame this on Americans -- preferably white males?
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About the time President Bush threw open our southern border -- followed by Obama rolling out the welcome mat for illegal aliens -- Mexico aggressively moved into the heroin business. In 2007, U.S. authorities seized 367 kilos of heroin on the Mexican border. In 2013, authorities seized 2,162 kilos. During that same time period, heroin use nearly doubled in the U.S.
As a result, in the last decade, half a million Americans have died from drug overdoses, mostly heroin and other opiates. That's ten times more than the number of Americans who died fighting the entire Vietnam War.
Mexico is pumping drugs into our country, but to blame Mexicans would be "xenophobic." They're poor and brown! We can't blame the Mexican drug cartels, and we certainly can't blame the corrupt Mexican government that is paid off by the cartels.
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Ping to my last.
For a while there the Taliban actively discouraged poppy growing. Then they changed their minds when they got hold of a steady source of financing.
"Personnel is policy", and blaming and finger-pointing is an excellent way to make personnel changes when you are not the appointive authority.
Phlegmatic appointers and other managers, and ignorant voters who elected the wrong guy, need to be motivated by "heat" to make necessary changes.
So she's going to fire Mexico and replace them with -- who?
If the idea is that it's the leaky border that makes for drug problems and we need to replace the politicians who made or left the border porous -- fine.
But the who do we blame -- Mexico or the US? -- angle isn't worth much.
Actually, it's entrepreneurial employers of low-wage, unskilled labor. Perry of Perry Home, Butts(es) of H.E.B. grocery-chain (they're the "B"), Don Tyson the chicken magnate, and many similar self-made men do it like they want to (I think it's part of their entrepreneurial makeup, to despise laws and democracy -- take note, Trump supporters) when it comes to keeping their labor costs low.
The aforementioned people are active and generous members in good standing of the "donor class" who support Republican politicians. Their influence on GOP politics has been, until this year, decisive, and it may yet prevail over us lowly "insurrectionists", allied as it is with the giant vampire squids of Wall Street (Goldman Sachs & co-predators).
Might be worth an opium war. The policy problem you point at is one the U.S. has avoided (because of the influence of corrupt, drug-involved plutocrats and power-brokers Stateside), that can be crystallized as, "what do you do, when your neighboring state is run by narcoterrorists, people of ontological ugliness and ferocity?"
Mexico is to blame for the surge in heroin. Two different systems from Mexico bring in the drugs and create new users: the cartels selling brown heroin and the Nayarit, Mexico group pushing the horrific black tar heroin. Those from Nayarit are far more dangerous, have expanded to at least 17 states, recruit, including among children, in communities with no previous heroin problems.
One odd trait among the black tar heroin pushers is that they are under orders to sell only to whites, never to non-whites.
I’d like to hit her on the head though. She’s lost whatever shred of credibility she was still clinging too with her jihad against Cruz.
But that is ok.
Silliness should not be restricted to Fridays.
Google is your friend.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/02/medical-mistakes-part-three.aspx
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