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"Your story has become tiresome...take it somewhere else."

The final line of someone who has no ammunition in a debate and wishes the people who are talking facts would take it elsewhere. And based on your reply, you didn't bother to read what I posted. You just knee-jerked your post right onto the board. So I don't expect you to read any further, since logic and facts apparently won't get through to you.

First: My solution is that there is no dole. No unconstitutional WOD (federal WOD - states can wage a pointless war if they want to) bound to the elimination of unconstitutional welfare state. Therefore, if you get addicted, you pay for treatment. If you can't work, you get no assistance. You make your choices and you pay the consequences. You want to steal to support your habbit? You go to jail for theft. You lay strung out on the street? You get hauled in for public intoxication - and you pay for your jail stay. Finally, if you decide to rob a good citizen, your law breaking meets up with their second amendment rights. Enable personal choices bound with personal responsibility and high consequences for harming others because of your decisions.

It's a better system than we have in place today. Despite years and years of fighting, rights of all citizens being stripped away to fight the deeds of a few, and a billions and billions of dollars spent to stop it, it still goes on. People still overdose. People still steal to support their habbits. People still ruin their lives. The war on drugs has stopped none of this. What it has done is made drug dealers richer by simple market economics (restricted supply of a high demand product = higher prices). And it has turned our police forces into paramilitary outfits funded by the never ending need to fight the WOD. But no matter how much they spend, they never win. Never.

The war on drugs is a failure. The federal government has no constitutional authority to wage it (unlike when it actually passed an amendment to wage the war on booze) and our rights get flushed down the drain just to stop people from harming themselves. Well guess what: people harm themselves every day. From suicide that kils them to fast food that kills them cigarrettes that kill them to booze that kills them. People destroying their lives is a tragedy, but it isn't government's responsibility to stop them. It's government's responsibility to prevent people who make bad choices from harming anyone else. That's why law enforcement should be concentrating on: People who do other people harm, not some loser who lights up a joint a few times a week but still manages to otherwise live his life normally.

The real question is why would you want to continue this? Do you think that if we just spend enough, or strip away enough constitutional protections, we'll eventually win? Do you think that there is a government program that can stop people from making bad decisions with their lives???