8 Billion minus the 80 Billion in seizing all the cash involved.
2007-02-10 18:18:28
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answered by warpigs 3
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Your figure - eight billion -is questionable but it is a lead pipe cinch whatever the total - it is wasted money for the most part.
It would be better spent right now on beefing-up our control of the borders where 'harder stuff' is flowing in and equally...no, more importantly, the flow of outlaw aliens coming-in! All immigrants who are already here have a vested interest in stopping that flow which is an ever-growing threat to US economic stability.
If, as is well-known, there are between twelve and twenty million outlaw border jumpers here now and the 'flow' isn't halted it won't be long before the number is twenty to forty million. We who 'belong' here are adopting the problems of other countries.
But forget it...we are going abroad to do that by political policy anyway, aren't we.
Let us pray.
2007-02-10 14:49:32
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answered by Anonymous
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It is an insane waste of money. You could take that $42 billion and fund merit scholarships half for high schoolers and half for college students. Or you could create a national charter school fund that purchases land and builds new or improves existing buildings transforming them into a great physical school environment for students. If you did that and created a physical plant endowment fund, then parents and municipalities or states could take it from there and create their own great elementary or middle or high school and vocational schools and/or specialist community colleges. You wouldn't have to spend the entire savings each year either. If you have a war on marijuana then you do have to fight it each year because the demand remains constant and growers plant a new crop each year somewhere. That isn't true of a charter school building program, for example, and you get years and probably decades of ROI form those students who learn from great teachers in an inspiring school environment. Take the Boone Pickens natural gas plan for 18 wheelers. That requires a $1 billion a year subsidy for 5 years for a total of $5 billion. But the plan will create thousands of new jobs and drastically reduce the amount of oil that America imports and it will create savings of approximately $60,000 a year for truckers while saving hundreds of billions for other consumers. That's a plan that isn't endless. it creates wealth through direct and indirect jobs and savings and keeps that money at home circulating within the American economy. The war of drugs doesn't and can't do any. It's an inter-governmental transfer of funds from one agency to another that does not create any new wealth for anyone in America. It epitomizes the bureaucratic mindset like almost nothing else. I'll shut up now. But it astonishing to me that spending $42 billion annually trying to keep pot out of the hands of otherwise law abiding citizens has greater priority than jobs and education in this country. It's more than a shame. Americans ought to be outraged at the allocation of this huge sum of our tax dollars for something so unproductive and unwinnable. But that's the point of this government action. Precisely because its unwinnable it will go on forever and the outlays will grow constantly over time to no end so long as the moral p.r. battle can be sustained above the economic p.r. battle. It's free money to them forever. But for us it's an endless drain on our resources and countless wasted opportunities to something far more productive with those tax dollars. OUR tax dollars. These are OUR tax dollars and they do not belong either to bureaucrats or to special interests. That's our money. And unless and until we speak loudly and clearly that we will not tolerate the continuing waste of our tax dollars then nothing will change. $42 billion every year and rising to fight an unwinnable war on pot. That's our government at its finest!
2016-05-25 07:29:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes it sure can, stop taking care of illegals and we could sure take care of a lot of Americans, lower healthcare costs and put some of that money towards the deficit.
This is so warped that until things change, our Country will continue to decline.
2007-02-10 14:36:01
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't know the source for your data - you probably could. I would add that marijuana is strongly addictive (in addition to illegal) and people who make a living off trading it should probably be jailed.
As for prostitution, my take is that it is a indicator of poverty and mental problems, not the cause. Arresting prostitutes, I would agree, does seem like a waste of resources.
2007-02-10 14:38:05
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answered by Ivan 5
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Yes of course that money could go to better use, hun!! That money could help people get health care that they cannot afford. And that money could go to a better education system (funding for schools). That money could be used on SO many different things, instead of housing people for using, selling, and possessing mary jay.
Cheers
2007-02-10 14:32:32
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answered by Anonymous
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I agree. Then we could figure out why alcohol, the only drug whose primary function is the killing of human brain cells in order to achieve its purpose, is still legal. God Bless you.
2007-02-10 14:50:56
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answered by ? 7
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Yes. Drop the age requirements from MediCare.
2007-02-10 14:40:00
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answered by rewter 2
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Id go along with making it legal if we used all that cash to build a wall between the US and Mexico.
2007-02-10 14:31:10
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answered by BIG-IRON 3
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Yes, it could be used for educational tools to teach kids to stay away from drugs.
2007-02-10 14:39:12
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answered by Anonymous
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