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Comment on 'The Day We Decide'

Exrayman4000 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:18:51 GMT

"It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced." Why? Because they suffered hardship, fought a terrible war, and came back to America to rebuilt it into a superpower. They were hardworking, determined, self made men and women who got up every day ready to do their job the best they could."

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Then became parents to the next generation that in a lot of ways became the antithesis of what their parents were. This "baby boom" generation is made up of the College professors that spew liberalism, Federal Judges that render "decisions" that over time have destroyed the bedrock of our once great society. Politicians like Bill Clinton etc etc. Yes The WW2 generation was all that was said, but somehow those life's lessons got lost!

Comment on 'The Day We Decide'

Darrell Hoskins — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:49:24 GMT

"The government will never make us better. The government will never make us happy or prosperous." How true!

I recommend, for additional reading, the commentary on the "Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution" by Angelo Codevilla on the American Spectator website. It is a "must read" for thinking people who care deeply about the current situation in our country.

Comment on To Legalize or Not Legalize Pot. That Is The Question

mikemcdaniel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:41:17 GMT

Hmm. If the societal ill effects of legalized marijuana are only half as bad as those of alcohol, one might be forgiven for thinking that we can do without that little bit of "progress."

Comment on To Legalize or Not Legalize Pot. That Is The Question

Jeff — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:55:04 GMT

Nobody said anything about porn, prostitution, or the elimination of existing alcohol laws. These are just straw men. And pot isn't addictive like your legally available tobacco, although like so many other things it can be habit-forming. Let's try to stay on point and stick with facts.

Comment on To Legalize or Not Legalize Pot. That Is The Question

Noodles — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:15:41 GMT

"Although I have never smoked pot, I had many friends in college who did smoke. To me, it never seemed as bad as drunkeness."

EXACTLY! That is why it is worse: less physical consequences than alcohol, but it feels so good! GATEWAY!!

Comment on To Legalize or Not Legalize Pot. That Is The Question

Chris — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:11:47 GMT

Alcohol is THE original gateway drug, and yes alcohol is a drug. Alcohol and THC are both chemical compounds that humans ingest for their effects on our minds and bodies. If alcohol is legal why not others? No rational person can argue that MJ is more damaging to our society than alcohol. Anyone who has used both knows this to be true.

Comment on To Legalize or Not Legalize Pot. That Is The Question

Dave Moore — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:30:44 GMT

The arguments in favor of legalizing pot are a complete miss.

"Legalize it and tax it."
We know what the government does with more revenues. The government misspends the money they collect now. The Federal government is engaged in efforts that are not the job of the Federal government. That needs to stop. They probably feel they need more money to make the public more dependent on them.

The NAACP has shown that they are not on the side of uplifting the public (colored or otherwise). They are in a scramble to keep their power base. The ploy to support legalizing marijuana is simply a ploy to gain followers.

"Prohibition doesn't work" is not an argument. It's an excuse for legalizing it.

Think about what happens to people who drink everyday. Of those who currently smoke pot what percentage of them would be smoking everyday if it became legal and less expensive? Now consider the potency of marijuana today. Alcohol is regulated to be of a certain alcoholic level. Pot is incredibly more potent today then 20 years ago. If the government thinks they will regulate pot potency they are kidding themselves. Who will be growing this pot? Will there be a government sanctioned, weaker strain of pot on the market? Will that fuel the growing and/or smuggling of more potent pot. Does the public even think about this?

Using the racial disparity of drug offender is not an argument. Sorry. When someone chooses to break the law it has nothing to do with their race.

The burden on the system of drug bust has a lot to do with the government telling us what we may and may not do. One of their arguments is that the government will have to pick up the tab when someone gets sick, or is unemployed, or unemployable. This needs to stop. This is not the job of the Federal government.

"Prohibition doesn't work" is not an argument. It's an excuse for legalizing it. If people were truly responsible for their actions then we could begin to take about decriminalizing marijuana. But as long as they are given a safety net that answer has to be no. One last point, the punishment for reckless use of both pot and alcohol need to be scrutinized.

Comment on To Legalize or Not Legalize Pot. That Is The Question

Liz — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:13:25 GMT

If you would like to raise your children in a neighborhood where marijuana is legal and available, pornography is freely distributed, prostitution is permitted, and alcohol is unrestricted, I suspect your property values will be very low, and your children may struggle more than the average child.

Drugs are highly addictive. They make people...uh....stupid, I guess is the best way to describe it. Plus it stinks and is unsanitary. If it is legalized, it should be done at a state level, never at the federal level, so people with kids can leave the state and find cleaner, safer environments to raise their families in. I would not live in a state where street drugs are promoted by the government. If I had a choice, that is. I also think the NAACP is pretty outdated and racist generally speaking, so I wouldn't put any stock in their determination of what is good for children of any color.

Comment on Perception vs. Reality

Glenn Floored — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:58:48 GMT

Thanks for posting my previous postings. I am trying to politely say that tax cuts is not the only issue. Republicans are hooked on "tax cuts" which makes sense in normal times, but today we have globalization. While the elite glorify tax cuts and free trade, we have lost our jobs. There is nothing more powerful than 2 billion cheap laborers who want to take away our jobs. The world has opened up and we cannot keep ignoring the rest of the world, and we cannot keep sending our jobs overseas.

As of late, we have been a nation that relied on cheap labor, cheap interest rates, low taxes, low oil prices, cheap dollar, borrowing and inflating, but none of this works (and we don't how long this will go on) if we keep losing our jobs. It was jobs that paid 10, 20, or 30 dollars an hour. And you have pundits who say that we have Wal Mart jobs to go to at 8 dollars an hour. Our recovery is slow because we cannot replace the 2 to 4 million jobs that we lost. We just can't replace those jobs.

So states have given out tax credits to keep industry here. Cities and states continually are going broke as we have lost the factories and the people that was employed. We need people employed to pay the city, the state, and the federal taxes, and to keep social security going. We have seen the cash for clunkers, extension of unemployment benefits, and states are asking for more casinos and more dreamed up government jobs to replace the private sector jobs we had. If we give up the private sector jobs, the the government fill the void.

Bush showed how the republican party works. I realize that republicans think that Bush spent too much and he did. But we also saw the failed ideology of the trickle down theory in which you just give tax cuts and then it is laissez-faire in which you ignore the countries problems and think that all is okay. Well all was not okay. We saw our jobs leave years ago, when people were preaching more and more tax cuts. Again, the real issue is globalization. Now the elite who support business will not tell you that. After all, profits come first.

I can give you an analogy of what happened. If your husband lost his job to Mexico or to China, If you sent your money overseas (Iraq), and if you neglected your house. You can see you would have nothing left. And that is where we are today.

In a small town with factories closed, small business cannot survive as there is no traffic. You have to have industry running to support small business. So all this talk in creating jobs, the pundits have no idea in what they are talking about.

And what widgets can we make here and not in China? So we know it is for cheap labor. We know that companies save on middle class wages, healthcare, pensions, city and state taxes, federal taxes, social security, and do not comply with OSHA standards.

It will take us years to recover, if we ever do. In the meantime, we will lose a generation of workers, too old to start over again.

Comment on To Legalize or Not Legalize Pot. That Is The Question

Dave Moore — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:55:43 GMT

The legalization of marijuana is about destroying the innocent and the not so innocent. The forces that are for this are also the people who are trying to control people's lives. Having more people smoking super potent pot would just make it easier to control them. And with them on the side lines subservient to their "leaders" their vote could be easily assured because "the bad guys want to take your pot away." It is nothing less than drugging the nation. It's about control and not personal freedom. If it were about freedom the only way pot could be made legal is if the federal government gave no support to the public (as per the Constitution). The would prove to be genuine freedom. That's it in a nut shell. This is proof that "they" want to spiritually and/or physically want to kill. This is what we need to be focused on. Thank you Kathleen.

Dave Moore