I really do not know enough about Bush's idea about treatment vouchers. I think he did make a good policy move here though. In effect he said, drug users should not be treated as criminals, but as people with an issue we can deal with. Now, given our guberments (who says that?) over-weaning desire to appear TOUGH, I have not a doubt they will institute some stupid bone head plan. When, after creating many others like ourselves, the idiots who cannot hold jobs in the corporate sector, will begin to realize what they are doing is not working. Then, they can go back to being tough on crime or confronting the issue that most of the crime is performed by only 20% of the inmates and the rest are there because they have issues they'd most likely be willing to deal with given a chance. As for the preditors, the 20% commiting most of the crimes, lock them up and throw away the key. Perhaps on a habitable island, left with the things necessary to survive and, perhaps, even build an economy.
Never happen though, the drug "war" is to good for the gov't. Spend billions of taxpayer dollars on something that will never work, and look tough while doing it, but these wimps will never make the unpopular but correct decisions it will take to clean up the drug "policy" mess. What I really love is using this "war" to justify all kinds of non-sense and to encroach on my ever decreasing right of privacy and freedom from gov't snooping. Hell Tom, the jack ass, Daschle has in a bill of his has a provision that states: If I throw a party on my farm and someone gets caught selling, in possession of or using some controlled substance, I get to got to federal prision for 20 years. I found that tidbit on
http://www.foxnews.com yesterday. Cool, huh?
Perhaps the next generation won't sell out like the 60's assholes that are now in office(One wonder's how many of them dropped acid at Grateful Dead shows). Doubt it, but one can hope.
How's that for political meandering?
Clay
PS I think I finally got the grammar corrected.
-GEEZ
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