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Posted on 06/16/2009 12:43:47 PM PDT by wolfcreek
This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
And it’s been over 40 years since President Johnson started the war on poverty. I think poverty won that war. After 40+ years we still have about the same proportion of the population grappling with poverty.
I wish somebody would write an article about the failure of the war on poverty. We can and should discuss the war on drugs. Drugs have caused lots of devastation to our country. But the war on poverty and its abject failure has similarly had huge negative consequences. And these consequences never get talked about.
Nixon’s war on drugs was an evil Republican war, perhaps?
Whereas LBJ’s war on poverty was a good Democrat war.
Agreed 100%.
Whenever the Government declares a war on anything, it is actually a war on our “Rights.” In that respect, both the war on poverty, and the war on drugs have been a huge success.
Ding, ding, ding, ding....thread over, we have our winner!!
And just think, Obama may be ending the war on terror......
I thought FDR went to war against pot. And cocaine had been criminalized before that.
How’s MADD’s zero.zero war on drunk driving going? States, insurance, and lawyers are doing quite well from it.
We have upwards of 1.5 million otherwise peaceful individuals sitting in OUR tax payer funded prisons for nothing more than simple possession.
Those folks could be working, paying taxes and supporting their families.
We're paying for the WOD and the WOP, coming and going while politicians and corrupt LEOs are raking in the benefits.
The NY Times is always right and the Caps Lock is really convincing.
BS
Those folks could be working, paying taxes and supporting their families.
Piled Higher and Deeper.
It’s also time for the war on poverty to end. That one’s being going on longer, and it’s proven a dismal failure.
I just wish the pro legalization crowd would be a little wiser about who they accept as allies.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/soros-infiltrates-conservative-movement/
Hey, don’t kill the messenger. Broke clock and all that....
At least the Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League had the decency to pass a Constitutional Amendment to further their prohibionists goals.
The pro-drug war folks have no such decency, or any Constitutional loyalty that stops them from supporting a policy of prohibition by fiat.
“It’s time for the WOD to end. (for more than a few reasons)”
Which isn’t to say we have to legalize everything or give up on efforts to prevent destructive addictions, but clearly approaching drug abuse almost entirely as a law enforcement problem has not been very effective. OTOH, alcohol is legal and it continues to be a problem, and abuse of it appears to me to be even a growing problem among young adults. I don’t know what the answer is.
Just curious what percentage of them you think would actually do this.
Perhaps, but I’d like to know why so many of these left-wing douchenozzles who are advocating to end the war on drugs and decriminalize marijuana are working so hard at the same time to criminalize tobacco and cigarettes.
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