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- From: mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris)
- Subject: Re: Bill's Billy, Roger (was Re: Some anonymous posts)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.184201.26193@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 18:42:01 GMT
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- cd741@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Andarti) writes:
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-
- >In a previous article, n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) says:
-
- >>homer@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Homer Smith) writes:
- >>
- >>> Given the drug for free, they again regained their self respect,
- >>>GOT BACK TO FUCKING WORK ADDING TO THE GNP RATHER THAN DETRACTING FROM
- >>>IT, were not tempted to over do the drug to distraction because
- >>>were not charging themselves up with a secret shameful life, and
- >>>they could talk openly with others like them about their problem.
- >>
- >> Or back on welfare, sucking from the GNP. On Discovery or
- >>something I recently watched a show on the doleing out of smack
- >>methadone and coke to junkies in England, and I believe it had some
- >>of the same footage as the 60 min show. What 60 min lacked however,
- >>as it would have been found distasteful to their vewiers, I imagine,
- >>was an interview with a family on welfare and smack. They picked up
- >>both their drugs and their money courtesy of the English taxpayer, and
- >>there was a short segment of them in their welfare complex with their
- >>children in the backround and gross looking ma and pa talking about how
- >>they haven't worked in years. Free rent, free money, free smack -why
- >>should they?
-
- >>
- >>Jim Del Vecchio
- >>
- >>Followup-To set to talk.politics.drugs
- >>
- >P.
- >--
- >--
- >"We're desperate, Get used to it,
- > It's kiss or kill" - X
-
- Humm .... I wonder then why there is more people on welfare per capita here
- than in Great Britain and at least 10 times more violent crime here than
- there. Why do some people worry so much about not getting their fair share
- of the pie (actually having to give less than 1 percent of your income too
- those lazy poor people). We should all hate them like Rush Limbaugh. (-:
-
- Seriously though when one considers the social and economic costs we have
- been paying for drug prohibition, underfunded education, and the whole
- military industrial complex thing the total cost of the welfare budget
- seems to me to pale in insignificance. My mother's father died when she
- was about 2 years old. Her mother raised 2 small children in Utah. In the
- winter she remembers not having coal to heat the house or have warm water
- to bathe in. They often lived on bread and milk but they survived.
- Fortunately the democrats were in power at the time.
-
- Drugs don't cause people to go on welfare. They're the symptom - not the
- problem. If this were not true how could the rest of us partake and still
- lead reasonably normal lives. O.K some people have a "disease" that causes
- them (through no fault of their own of course and independant of any other
- problems they might have in their lives) to lose control of all body
- function and rationality if drugs are involved. BTW if this is true why
- is it a crime to use any drug?
-
- I say (impending flames not withstanding) irresponsible drug use would decline
- significantly if we really seriously addressed some other problems in this
- society. Giving those unfortunate enough to be stuck in a bad place enough
- help so that they have a chance to get out strikes me as a good place to
- start. Every other developed country in the world does this better than the
- U.S.
-
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