"The well meaning liberal welfare state, the collapse of the family unit, the failure of our education system, and the war on drugs are all parts of the equation."
Be careful with stuff like this. You'll be described as a sexist, bigot, nut job J - The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help." - Thomas Sowell You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, as Jack Cafferty just pointed out, so tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold. - Wolf Blitzer On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:21 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Agreed, but if you want to lower those numbers, you need to treat the root > causes. > > The well meaning liberal welfare state, the collapse of the family unit, > the failure of our education system, and the war on drugs are all parts of > the equation. > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > "Caused by the war on drugs" is far, far, far different than "a HUGE > > majority of the people incarcerated should not be." > > > > Violence and theft, regardless of the cause, is still violence and theft. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Now THAT is exactly what I was hoping to see. > > > > > > > > That is awesome. Thanks. Lots of reading tonight. > > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, that data is unlikely to indicate non-drug offense which > > > were committed in connection to drugs in some way. Addicts steal to buy > > > drugs due to the high costs attached by the war on drugs. There are > > > certainly also cases where people went into the prison system as a drug > > > user and came out as a hardened/violent criminal. > > > > > > It would still be interesting to see any conclusions you come up with, > > > however. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349985 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
