I am for federal government to get out of running our personal lives and families, period. Federal government has a particular job which is enumerated and does not include rewards and “help” for those on drugs. If we allowed personal responsibility and death on the streets for druggies-—we would eliminate the need for “war on drugs”.
Now, the states have a right to promote Virtue-—in fact, the Founding Fathers stated that was the purpose of public schools. This “Virtue” is Christian ethics and embedded in our legal system of inalienable Rights from God. This standard where Rights originate from God and NOT Barney Frank is what is destroying our country whose government is now actively redefining words, language and “Good and Evil” to the pagan/occult/Marxist ideology to destroy the Ethics that produced the Constitution .
Welfare states destroy responsibility and rewards evil behavior—it is unconstitutional anyways. Education (which is not done in schools anymore) is what it will take to destroy the dependence on drugs. We need to get government out of schools because they are just indoctrination centers teaching slaves to passion and creating addicts.
Government always is evil—always produces “evil”—that is understood by all freedom loving people-—that is why the Leviathan HAS to be LIMITED.
Only virtuous people can be free and responsible and government is not needed where you have men who are angels. Being sinful, men do need some government-—but it should always be promoting Christian Ethics because that is where the idea of individual dignity and worth and responsibility for oneself originate. Subsidiarity is a Catholic creation. These ideas, embedded in Natural Law Theory-—Rights come from God and in a “Higher Law” is totally American (and Judeo-Christian) -is what has made this country superior and more free and diverse than any other country in the history of the world.
We need to get back to creating responsible human beings and promoting Virtue which has been known for all freedom and civil societies since Plato and Aristotle. It is what made Western Civilization so superior to all ideologies.
Now, the states have a right to promote Virtue
They are not constrained by the United States Constitution from doing so, agreed.
Government always is evil—always produces “evil”—that is understood by all freedom loving people-—that is why the Leviathan HAS to be LIMITED. [...] Being sinful, men do need some government-—but it should always be promoting Christian Ethics
That promotion, if taken far enough, can become the opposite of limited. So the question is whether properly limited government promotion of Christian ethics encompasses prohibition of drugs by any level of government.
End the social safety net and we can get there. As it stands now, Democrats block efforts to drug test welfare recipients.
The public needs to have some accountability of how their "helping people out" money is being spent.
Same is true for foreign aid. If we don't have control of the money (OOOH, IMPERIALISM! COLONIALISM!) then they don't get a dime.
If all of that loose money was not spent at home and abroad, it would be a start at getting government spending under control.