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White House propaganda dutifully reported by the AP.
..................(War on Drugs is a Big Government® failure)...............
Yeah, and in Breaking News, everything the government has ever done has always been a blithering hi-cost failure. (Military Excepted!!
Now, welcome to five days of postal service to bring you your new ObamaaCare monthly invoice!
Government is a big government failure
Kerlikowske was about as worthless a POS chief of police imaginable. Illegal aliens...no biggie. Aggressive bums assaulting people downtown....too bad. Riots in the streets...we can’t do anything. Fags buggering each other in teh parks...its their civil rights. Graffiti....who cares. Make an ‘inappropriate’ comment about someone...OFF WITH YOUR HEAD.
Don’t hang your hat on what this asshole has to say.
How’s that “War on Poverty” thing coming along? We’ve spent trillions on that also. Haven’t heard anything about it lately with the ‘RATS now controlling the country. I guess we must have won because the ‘RATS are now wanting to import more poverty. We’ve got a poverty shortage.
War on Drugs is amazing!
I Live MA, HEROIN is a phone call away.
Cocaian? The same.
If i wanna do it i can.
The “war” is not here.
It seems to me this is one of the very few things the Obama Admin. has gotten somewhat right. People on this site claim to understand market capitalism. One of capitalism's basic tenets is that the supply of any commodity will grow to meet demand.
Sure enough, as the insatiable U.S. demand for drugs has grown over the past 40 years, so has the supply. Farmers who could be growing food for the people in Afghanistan, Colombia, Mexico and other drug-producing countries are growing opium poppies, coca and marijuana instead. Most of it goes directly to the lucrative U.S. market by any means necessary. That brings crime, violence and murderous drug gangs.
If the American demand for dangerous drugs is not reduced the supply will grow ever larger, with terrible consequences for America. It's time to begin attacking the sickness, not the symptoms.
Well, dang, why don’t we just legalize drugs that will sure solve the problem!
Well, the War on Poverty is an even bigger failure. If we’re going to throw in the towel, let’s start with that one.
Good to the some of the Free Republic Drug Warriors (Armchair Division) still carrying the flag. Who cares about the costs? It’s about being righteous no matter how many other people are kidnapped and murdered. They are sacrifices on the altar of self-righteousness.
what we got was gang violence, prostitution, and crooked cops from the “drug war”.
The 'War on Drugs' is unconstitutional as Hell.
“U.S. drug war has met none of its goals (War on Drugs is a Big Government® failure)”
It’s said that those who think socialism has always failed misunderstand its purpose. The same can be said about the WoD.
I think it has met plenty of its goals: terrorizing citizens without repercussion, trillions of taxpayer dollars soaked up, not to mention asset forfeiture to incentivize arrests. They get lifetime sinecures in a bloated bureaucracy, and they get lots of cool toys to play with. The exact opposite of failure.