What conservative could agree with that?
Actually, I do depending on what he actually said.
I can think of 2 countries now without a serious drug problem, Communist China, and, certainly...North Korea. Police states are very good at wars on drugs...
The very idea that it's any of the government's business to fight the moral/medical scourge of addiction is a LIBERAL-BIG-GOVERNMENT assumption--birthed during Prohibition.
As to government loans for education?
Why in the world do we have student loans in the first place? We should just call them grants to the Leftist Professors Association, because that's exactly what they are. Do you wonder why the costs of tuition kept steadily climbing from the '80s on in spite of low-to-no inflation? GOVERNMENT FUNDING/INTERVENTION.
Why was tuition at IVY LEAGUE schools affordable to anyone who qualified just a couple generations ago?
That's the trouble with too many conservatives, they want small government for (obviously) liberal causes, without thinking through the costs of big government for ANY causes (which invariably eventually tends to help liberals anyway).
Ron Paul, as loony as he is on certain subjects, makes more sense in his principles than the Republican party (and the Democrats of course have NO principles) has for a long time now....
You speak wisely my friend...
That's not what I heard. I've heard the opposite about China. Opium use is HUGE in China. If true, so much for the "police states control drugs" narrative.