Arlene, I read your article and I must disagree with your conclusions. Having government provide more money for education and healthcare will not solve the problem because the problems has nothing to do with inadequate health care or with inadequate schooling. Lincoln had less than three years of formal schooling and zero government or employee provided health care. The problem is the war this nation has been conducting for nearly 100 years against its own people. We have invaded them with an army of laws and have treated their resistance as an insurgency that requires an armed and violent response and after incarceration we send them to be re-educated so they will accept our invasion of them without further resistance. In your article you point out that Dante's father was a functioning heroin addict who held down a job, but spent most of his paycheck, not on his family but on enriching the drug dealers down on the corner. Dante, after observing this scenario for years, realized the only way to get ahead is to sell drugs. Working two jobs as his mother did, was insufficient to care for a family. I have seen functioning heroin addicts working in apprenticeship programs, working at good paying jobs and being productive members of society. They get prescription heroin that costs $15 per dose, in a country where minimum wage is about $25 per hour. Their insurance pays for it. Sidewalk displays are left unguarded during the two-hour lunch break because you don't have addicts being forced to steal to pay outrageous prices for their drug of choice. The real problem is the hundreds of billions of dollars that we waste in trying to force our people to surrender their bodies to the state. The interventionists in our society have, since prohibition, been trying to tell people that they do not own their own bodies, that the state owns them and they are only allowed to put in them what the state approves, including trans fats. The response has been gangs trying to control the drug trade and all of the violence caused, not by the drugs but by their illegality. I hope you reconsider your conclusions. Dik
On Jun 14, 8:56 pm, MWR <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL, Keith!!! Doesn't number five cover that? :o) > > On Jun 14, 11:40 pm, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > One More: > > > === > > > As my ole friend plainol would say "Spot on!" :o) > > > Below is the Code of Ethics I use in the classroom. I just wish I > > could teach it to the parents! :o) > > > I will be responsible for my own behavior. > > I will honor myself. > > I will respect others. > > I will resolve conflicts without violence or drugs. > > I will take pride in my total environment. > > > ==== > > > I will never go to bed without washing the funk off all parts of my > > anatomy...... > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This is my first post folks, so please go easy on me. I am from > > > > > Louisiana and because of that, I have seen a great deal of negative > > > > > issues stemming from the political climate here. If you have a > > > > > moment, please peruse my article at the link below & let me hear from > > > > > you on your thoughts - perhaps this is a sensitive subject, but > > > > > whether I agree with you is not the point - it is just so important > > > > > that we all, no matter where we are from, address this issue: > > >http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2552-New-Orleans-Crime-Examiner~y2...text > > > - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
