At your expense, of course. (See Democrite Playbook p. 3)
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2 Responses to “Hillary Clinton Proposes $10 Billion Plan to Combat Drug Addiction”
At whose expense do we arrest, interdict, convict, and incarcerate drug users?
How many prisons have we had to build, and at whose expense? How many helicopters, speedboats, flak vests have we deployed, and at whose expense?
What are the opportunity costs entailed by those who have to wait years to have legal cases decided because the courts are clogged with drug offence cases? Who’s paying for all that?
How many trillions of dollars and billions of man-hours have we invested in The War on Drugs?
And how much progress have we made?
The “front lines” in this “war” resemble the trenches along the Somme after the Big Push in 1916–a staggering expenditure of time and resource for a gain that can be measured in inches, if at all.
Funny how the same people who are aghast at the ‘war on drugs’ are in the front trenches in the ‘war on salt’, the ‘war on transfats’, the ‘war on Frankenfoods’, and the ‘war on fast food’. The impulse is in either case the same, the view that We The Anointed Know Better Than You Unwashed What You Ought To Be Doing; it’s just the targets that change.
September 3rd, 2015 at 13:02
At whose expense do we arrest, interdict, convict, and incarcerate drug users?
How many prisons have we had to build, and at whose expense? How many helicopters, speedboats, flak vests have we deployed, and at whose expense?
What are the opportunity costs entailed by those who have to wait years to have legal cases decided because the courts are clogged with drug offence cases? Who’s paying for all that?
How many trillions of dollars and billions of man-hours have we invested in The War on Drugs?
And how much progress have we made?
The “front lines” in this “war” resemble the trenches along the Somme after the Big Push in 1916–a staggering expenditure of time and resource for a gain that can be measured in inches, if at all.
September 3rd, 2015 at 19:39
Funny how the same people who are aghast at the ‘war on drugs’ are in the front trenches in the ‘war on salt’, the ‘war on transfats’, the ‘war on Frankenfoods’, and the ‘war on fast food’. The impulse is in either case the same, the view that We The Anointed Know Better Than You Unwashed What You Ought To Be Doing; it’s just the targets that change.
Hillary Clinton’s Kinder, Gentler War on Drugs Sounds Like Nixon’s