Posted on 02/03/2016 4:20:20 PM PST by george76
Any politician who claims to care about the drug overdose deaths sweeping the nation, but does not demand that we build a wall, deport illegal aliens and end the anchor baby scam, is a liar.
In 2014, more people died from drug overdoses than any year in U.S. history: 47,055. That's more than die in car accidents -- and it's not even close.
This is a huge, horrible problem -- and it's a problem caused entirely by the fact that Mexico is on our southern border.
The diverse, hardworking people of Mexico manufacture the majority of heroin in the U.S. and import "nearly all" of it, according to a 2014 Washington Post report.
The media and political class respond to this fact by asking themselves: How do we blame this on Americans -- preferably white males?
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About the time President Bush threw open our southern border -- followed by Obama rolling out the welcome mat for illegal aliens -- Mexico aggressively moved into the heroin business. In 2007, U.S. authorities seized 367 kilos of heroin on the Mexican border. In 2013, authorities seized 2,162 kilos. During that same time period, heroin use nearly doubled in the U.S.
As a result, in the last decade, half a million Americans have died from drug overdoses, mostly heroin and other opiates. That's ten times more than the number of Americans who died fighting the entire Vietnam War.
Mexico is pumping drugs into our country, but to blame Mexicans would be "xenophobic." They're poor and brown! We can't blame the Mexican drug cartels, and we certainly can't blame the corrupt Mexican government that is paid off by the cartels.
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You're right. Ann's on our side... we're in this one together...
America eats its young
Just how do the 80-year olds obtain it?
You get caught transporting it shot
Trail and execution in one month
No more drug trade
Very few get of herion
We should have nuked the Poppy fields in Afghanistan first thing.
Agreed. I think paid shills moved in on her here, using Romney as the one and only foothold they ever found against her that would stick. She's a conservative national treasure, so she's bitterly hated by the enemy.
I don’t know. I never asked them.
You should be a motivational speaker.
Florida has tons of “Pain Management Centers”. They dish it out like candy.
BTW, that microphone looks like a car's windshield wiper sweeping across her blouse: it lines up very well with the wrinkles which lead towards her armpit and shoulder...
“She’s RIGHT here.”
She’s right damn near all the time. Probably all the time, it’s just some of the truth is really hard to take.
Why is the border still wide open despite the American publics opinion against this situation? Even under Republican Bush it didn’t change.
I say follow the money. Probably drug cartel money is paying off politicians, judges and police on both sides of the border.
Ann Coulter hits the nail on the head again.
“Whereas I agree with her point, No one has to buy it or use it.”
Totally agree - in this case it takes two to tango. Without the demand there would be no supply.
And the demand is the result of our cultural rot. Can’t blame that on Mexico.
Answer in the article.
It's true that overdose by prescription drugs is the leading cause of overdose deaths, but that's a trick: The CDC classifies all opioid pain reliever deaths as "prescription" opioid overdoses — whether or not an actual doctor or "prescription" was involved. Guess who's moved into the "prescription" drug business in a big way? That would be Mexico.
Docs kill more than guns.
A rather silly statement.
Check malpractice deaths at around 100,000 per year. My point stands on multiple bases.
Way too cynical. They've got plenty else to do, and would probably appreciate a long respite from the drug wars, so they can go chase murderers, smugglers, bat****-crazy assassins and terrorists, counterfeiters, carjackers, and .... well, you get the idea.
The list is very, very long, of things that LEO's could profitably occupy their time with, if they didn't have to chase Mexican and Colombian couriers and American pushers and junkies any more.
It's a demand-driven business and was doing very well before the Mexicans got involved in a major way.
And is "blame" really the angle you want to take on this? Rather than looking for solutions, you're looking for somebody to point the finger at?
Whoever you are, Ann will always find a way to disappoint you.
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