Posted on 07/05/2013 3:20:09 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
As Americans obsess over NSA spying, abuse by the IRS and other assaults on our freedom, I can't get my mind off the thousand other ways politicians abuse us.
In their arrogance, they assume that only they solve social problems. They will solve them by banning this and that, subsidizing groups they deem worthy and setting up massive bureaucracies with a mandate to cure, treat and rescue wayward souls.
Their programs fail, and so they pass new laws to address the failures. It's one reason that 22 million people now work for government.
Some of the things they do seem like bigger assaults on our freedom than NSA spying, although we've become accustomed to the older abuses.
Take the drug war.
It's true that some Americans destroy their lives and their families' lives by using drugs. Others struggle with addiction. But if illegal drugs are as horrible and addictive as we've been told, how come the government's own statistics say millions try those drugs but only a small percentage continue using?
Ninety-five percent of those who have tried what we think of as "hard drugs" report not using the substances in the past month.
Columbia University psychology professor Dr. Carl Hart, author of "High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery," says "hard" drugs are not as dangerous as the media make them out to be. For 15 years, he's studied the effects of marijuana, methamphetamine, crack cocaine and more on users.
"The data simply shows that the vast majority of people who use these drugs don't go on to become addicted," he said on my show. "In fact, some of these people go on to become president."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
John Stossel, whom no one can mistake for a big-government liberal, is right on this. Bas anything positive come from the War on Drugs? If so, is it worth the huge price?
giving kids the idea that drugs are oky is the bad idea
Drug laws should be the decision of individual states, with the Feds only involved if they cross state or national boundries.
SCOTUS and Congress and the pRES_ _ent use many
illegal drugs.
Just like their other criminal activities,
no problem for THEM. Car accident on ambien? NO PROBLEMA.
No Laws for THEM.
No ObamaCARE/DeathCARE for THEM or their families.
NO SEC Laws for THEM.
The corollary?
No protection for Americans from THEM.
You want to see an ugly sick government in action?
Just watch the government prosecution in the Zimmerman trial...
But massive government corruption is not limited the federal government, but the states as well.
Up to their necks.
How does it give them the idea it’s “good”? That’s idiotic, and it reinforces the statists mantra amongst the sheep that everything they do is “for the children”.
One of the primary things people need to get out of their skulls these days to save the Republic is the concept that children are stupid fragile little things until they are 21. George Washington had his first business around the age of 13.
If you reinforce that they are stupid and helpless, they will become EXACTLY that, much to the politicians joy...
because its what libertopians want
Let me state it this way:
Is keeping the War on Drugs worth the damages that it's done the 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendments? Moreover, it is worth the general presumption of guilt (rather than innocence_ it encourages? Finally, is it worth the everyone's a criminal, there are only ones we haven't caught yet
mentality it encourages in law enforcement?
[H]as anything positive come from the War on Drugs?
Lots of feral government employees take home lots of big pay checks.
On second thought, maybe that's not a positive, after all.
Yeah the government sucks at all levels.
Drugs are bad, so are the excesses and failures of our “war” on them which is going as well as Vietnam.
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