Posted on 10/27/2017 12:57:32 PM PDT by Wolfie
Edited on 10/27/2017 1:14:10 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I’d add conservative judges and corporate tax reform to that list.
Amen.
Throwing money at those proud, cocky troublemakers won’t help. There’s human misery all over the place from recreational drug abuse. Save the neighbors victimized by the pushers, the addicts and their friends. Shut down the preachers of the drug and pit bull religion by arresting them all. Put them in camps in the desert...or in the ocean.
It’s the idea that matters most here.
Yeah... “I got myself hooked on drugs, so I need a few hundred thousand of taxpayer $$$ to send me to rehab, after which I’ll relapse and need to do rehab all over again. I’ll repeat the cycle over and over ‘til I overdose because, after all, why should I stop if someone else is footing the bill?”
The other insanity is they're talking about facilities with lots of beds for in-patient addiction treatment. Think about it. What they're suggesting is a form of imprisonment, at the same time most people are saying drug addicts shouldn't be imprisoned.
They want money? How about charging and fining pharmaceutical companies and medical "professionals" who have been irresponsible about prescribing these poisons?
I’d add conservative judges and corporate tax reform to that list.
You hit the nail on the head (pun intended :-) ).
The wall must go up to make it harder to get heroin in through the southern border. Moreover, the dealers need to be afraid. They don’t fear jail.
As with other destructive drugs like meth for example, why don’t they just do what they did with cigarettes?
Warning labels, negative advertising up the ying=yang; make it politically incorrect and out of fashion to use drugs.
Spend the money there. Over time it worked for getting people to stop smoking or never start.
Other than furthering the police state, I don’t see what the gov’t can do to be effective. The laws are already on the books; the consequences of using is well known.
it costs money not to buy opioids. Wait . . . what?
Walling off the southern border won’t work. Instead, take all of the drugs that are confiscated coming across the border, break it all up into small baggies, load it all on a C-130 and drop it over every city in Mexico (or wherever it originated from). Better yet, simply fly it south of the border and dump it all into Mexico’s water supply. And do the same to China, since a lot of the drugs originate from there.
It’s not just North Dakota and Kentucky. It’s happening in tony suburbs, too.
15+ years after we went to Afghanistan for what should have been at most an 18 month punitive expedition, we have an opiod epidemic very much helped along by poppies grown where? You guessed it!
Why are we still there?
They’re selling pot, mushrooms and everything else to kids! Don’t eat fast food. The fast food joints are full of disease-carrying dope fiends including dealers. Some of them are armed with illegal weapons. They’re selling pot and weapons from drive-through windows. They brag about their pit bulls chewing on kids.
Warnings are going out in small cities, before police walk up to the counters and ask all of the employees where to get some weed. They’re not trying!
Make them start doing their jobs. They haven’t really been trying to bust drug dealers since the ‘60s. Corporations are not doing proper random drug tests. They always send warnings to employees well in advance, so employees can pass more water through their bodies in time to beat the tests!
Boycott businesses that hire drug addicts or dealers! Elect cleaner cut, drug-free sheriffs! Do something about it!
The money comes from Congress, not the president. Again they try to bash Trump for something not in his power. I guess they’ve been so used to Barry doing whatever the fark he wanted with no one saying squat that they have no idea what an enumerated power is.
2. Why should I pay a penny for some idiot who overdoses and then expects someone else to pay the freight. I recently had medical stuff done for a problem that I didn't cause, and I had to pay a pretty steep deductible I didn't expect my fellow taxpayers to foot the bill.
3.Why should Trump be held responsible for the actions of idiots?
4. Opioids ae a blessing for those I pain. Too many doctors now are afraid to prescribe necessary doses because of the jerks who abuse them. The government is targeting drug producers and doctors who are providing legitimate pain relief rather than going after the morons who do this to themselves.
5. I have zero sympathy for junkies, never did have any, never will. They waste their lives and bring down anyone who cares for them. One of my former bosses had a junkie for a kid. It was pathetic what the a$$hole kid put him through. Endless expensive "rehab," constant lies, stealing everything that wasn't bolted down to feed his habit. The kid had absolutely zero interest in being anything except a junkie.
“Why are we still there?”
Somebody has to protect those poppy fields.
The sound swamp howler monkeys make when they find another opportunity to profit off the public.
I like Duerte. He definitely has the right idea with regards to the drug problem and I’m glad to see our wrinkly relationship with him smoothing out after the Trump election.
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