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To: ClearCase_guy; NobleFree
"To me, that SHOULD be the Libertarian position. In that order. Because if you switch #1 and #2 around, you will achieve the new #1 (legal drugs) but you will abandon all hope of ever getting the new #2 (ending Welfare)."

Exactly as I see it. And ending welfare enables us to end a whole host of other government problems.

For example, end welfare and people will be more liable to pick wise career choices instead of the ones government pushes us to (i.e. college oriented "careers" many of which don't work out well).

End welfare and people are more liable to not do drugs to begin with. (Look at how little drug abuse there was before the welfare state -- because people would see the few people in the gutter and not want to wind up like them).

End welfare and people will eventually go back to saving for their future like the greatest generation did -- less need for government "help" for senior citizens.

End welfare for farms (the farm subsidies that pay farmers to not grow food, ideally to prevent a food surplus which makes farmers go bankrupt) and produce won't be so expensive (thus less need for food stamps).

95 posted on 11/25/2019 9:37:32 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Or give employers the right to hire/or not to hire pot users.

If you think hiring pot smokers is good for business, by all means, go for it. But by that same token a company should be able to exclude users just the same.


97 posted on 11/25/2019 9:39:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tell It Right
See post #94.
98 posted on 11/25/2019 9:40:10 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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