A couple of years ago your country was energy independent and could supply the world ..and then wtf happened...
I agree 100%. However, we are cheap and don't want to pay the price. We'll do about anything to save a few pennies. For instance, cutting our trees down, shipping them to China to be made into lumber then buying the lumber. Or worse, Fairfax County, VA buying manhole covers from India when VA has a steel mill (one of the last in the country) and there are US manhole cover manufacturers.
As bad as our attempts to criminalize drug use have gone, NOT criminalizing them is NOT a "more effective" or more humane answer, QUITE OBVIOUSLY.
Would be nice.
Sadly, true.
We have been conditioned to believe that it would "cost too much" .
true enough. However, we already have MILLIONS of unfilled positions with MILLIONS laying about on the dole, how is THAT going to change?
Put them to work.
) in hundreds of manufacturing plants, all throughout USA, Canada, some of Mexico, Europe & Japan.
So greed could be fed.
I am qualified to speak on the topic.
Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Faulty pipeline valve operation device stopped our energy independance.
We're "a bit" far apart...You wanna sit around my firepit or yours?
Put them to work.
In the SKF/Timken bearing plant. We rebuild. Here.
And in the MOOG suspension component plant we open here.
And in the Maytag, Whirlpool plant we open here.
And in the EVERYOTHERDAMNEDTHING plant that we open here.
I have had the very great honor to work (
I have watched them be closed.
I have had to decommission machinery in preparation to send it elsewhere.
I have visited the Peace Museum in Hiroshima.
Despite the sarcastic remarks from some candyass snot-nosed hipster punks,
Our great nation, made up of talented craftsmen who emigrated here for OPPORTUNITY, bringing with them SKILLS & WORK ETHIC are a marvel to behold.
CUT OFF the funding to the layabouts, and, like the rubber bisquet song, they go hungry. Then, they will be motivated to work, and get paid, and buy food.
Amen Brother.
Not obvious at all. Plenty of research and history shows that it reduces the harm done by drugs. Here is just one example of many. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072016/ . Note what they say about the decriminalisation of heroin in the Netherlands and resulting reduction of new addicts to almost zero.
