Let’s put the blame for our border problems squarely where it belongs: on the USA’s atrocious, expensive, inhumane, unjust, and counter-productive War on Drug-Using Americans, which regularly drives billions of dollars into Latin America, where it can be fought over by drug lords, criminal cartels, and corrupt governments, making life there miserable for average citizens.
Meanwhile, here in America, people’s lives are ruined by needing to deal with our own criminal class, suffering from drugs of dubious composition and purity (because the FDA has no control over them), and feeding the prison-industrial complex. The beauty of this from the right-wing perspective, of course, is that most convicted felons can’t vote to reform the system.
Think of all the jobs we could create — and the lives we could save — if we legalized, industrialized, standardized, regulated, and taxed recreational drugs and treated any abuse of them as a medical problem, not a legal one. Why, the very guy who’s today a back-alley dope dealer would, in 5 years, be a respectable businessman, joining the Jaycees and just as welcome there as the small brewers and tavern owners have been ever since we repealed our last bit of prohibitionist idiocy back in 1933.
But no, we can’t even get rid of the monumental stupidity that is daylight-saving time, let alone agree on an enlightened, rational approach to something that everybody has a profound emotional opinion about.
With all the floods in Texas, cyclones in the Mid West, storms in Florida, ill give odds that the cleanup crews, roofers, framers will be mostly border crashers. I would like to see the Feds make a check on all of those workers, and tell those states they have to send the undocumented ones back, then watch the weasels try to get out of it.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 29 days ago
Let’s put the blame for our border problems squarely where it belongs: on the USA’s atrocious, expensive, inhumane, unjust, and counter-productive War on Drug-Using Americans, which regularly drives billions of dollars into Latin America, where it can be fought over by drug lords, criminal cartels, and corrupt governments, making life there miserable for average citizens.
Meanwhile, here in America, people’s lives are ruined by needing to deal with our own criminal class, suffering from drugs of dubious composition and purity (because the FDA has no control over them), and feeding the prison-industrial complex. The beauty of this from the right-wing perspective, of course, is that most convicted felons can’t vote to reform the system.
Think of all the jobs we could create — and the lives we could save — if we legalized, industrialized, standardized, regulated, and taxed recreational drugs and treated any abuse of them as a medical problem, not a legal one. Why, the very guy who’s today a back-alley dope dealer would, in 5 years, be a respectable businessman, joining the Jaycees and just as welcome there as the small brewers and tavern owners have been ever since we repealed our last bit of prohibitionist idiocy back in 1933.
But no, we can’t even get rid of the monumental stupidity that is daylight-saving time, let alone agree on an enlightened, rational approach to something that everybody has a profound emotional opinion about.
Jhony-Yermo 29 days ago
Lalo, THIS explains so much. Especially, “Every generation of immigrates, looks down on the next wave of immigrants. It’s an ameriKan tradition.”
Geezer 29 days ago
“Undocumented” is a euphemism for “illegal.”
daisypekin01 29 days ago
da*ned if you do, da*ned if you don’t!
SofaKing 29 days ago
The undocumented…simultaneously lazy AND taking all the jobs.
SofaKing 29 days ago
The Rights Saint Ronald Reagan killed the law that punished the employers of undocumented workers.
mistercatworks 29 days ago
Wall-building experience a plus.
bike2sac 29 days ago
With all the floods in Texas, cyclones in the Mid West, storms in Florida, ill give odds that the cleanup crews, roofers, framers will be mostly border crashers. I would like to see the Feds make a check on all of those workers, and tell those states they have to send the undocumented ones back, then watch the weasels try to get out of it.