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**insightmike** · 04-20-2011, 09:04 PM

Sounds great, but I do mean this sincerely: and then what?

If this program is an overwhelming success, for lack of a better word, and we eradicate from the welfare rolls huge swaths of drug users, should we brace for a sustained spike in crime to support the habit? Of course public money shouldn't be used to support a drug habit, but who really thinks cutting the purse strings is going to end the addiction?

Of course not. I think the primary goal of this bill is financial. I think the sympathetic caveats are afterthoughts. I don't think we've even begun to feel how bad the global economic situation is going to hurt us. We will to have to start making some tough decisions, and looking at welfare as an objective investment rather than a blank check is a start.

Being faced with an economy that seems less and less manageable everyday, when it comes to drug addicts, maybe we should yank their kids away and say "who cares?" Let natural selection deal with them. That obviously isn't going to happen, but they made their own decisions. I'd rather see that welfare money go to struggling single parents who want to contribute to the system.

Besides, how beneficial has court ordered rehabilitation ever proven? It's a place for addicts to dry out and collect enough brain cells to find their way back to their dealer.

04-20-2011, 09:04 PM	#13
insightmike Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 529 Senior Member	Sounds great, but I do mean this sincerely: and then what? If this program is an overwhelming success, for lack of a better word, and we eradicate from the welfare rolls huge swaths of drug users, should we brace for a sustained spike in crime to support the habit? Of course public money shouldn't be used to support a drug habit, but who really thinks cutting the purse strings is going to end the addiction? Of course not. I think the primary goal of this bill is financial. I think the sympathetic caveats are afterthoughts. I don't think we've even begun to feel how bad the global economic situation is going to hurt us. We will to have to start making some tough decisions, and looking at welfare as an objective investment rather than a blank check is a start. Being faced with an economy that seems less and less manageable everyday, when it comes to drug addicts, maybe we should yank their kids away and say "who cares?" Let natural selection deal with them. That obviously isn't going to happen, but they made their own decisions. I'd rather see that welfare money go to struggling single parents who want to contribute to the system. Besides, how beneficial has court ordered rehabilitation ever proven? It's a place for addicts to dry out and collect enough brain cells to find their way back to their dealer.
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