Thursday, May 06, 2010
By Edwin Mora
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
05/07/10
From CNSNews
Pelosi: It’s Cheaper to Treat Teens for Drug Use Than
Interdict Drugs at Border
Thursday, May 06, 2010
By Edwin Mora
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
(CNSNews.com) - While pointing out that it is the responsibility of the federal
government to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.)
said Thursday it is cheaper to treat teens for drug use than it is to interdict
drugs being smuggled across the border.
CNSNews.com pointed out to the speaker at her weekly press briefing that a
recent Justice Department report indicated that one in five U.S. teenagers used
drugs last year, and then asked: “Are you committed to sealing the border
against the influx of illegal drugs from Mexico and, if so, do you have a target
date in mind for getting that done?”
“Well if your question is about drugs, I’m for reducing demand in the United
States,” said Pelosi. “That is what our responsibility is on this subject. The
RAND Corporation a few years ago did a report that said it would be much less
expensive for us to, through prevention first and foremost, but through
treatment on demand to reduce demand in our country, is the cheapest way to
solve this problem.
“Incarceration is the next cheapest,” Pelosi continued. “It costs seven times
more to incarcerate than to have treatment on demand. It costs 15 times more to
interdict at the border. And it costs 25 times more with eradication of the
cocoa leaf. This is an issue that it is very important to our country because of
what it’s doing to our teenagers. That is the problem, what it is doing to our
people.”
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Always nice to see a Democrat interested in saving government money. We should definitely take the cheaper option here. Say the teen drug use problem is around 20%: That's just 1 out of 5 that grows up with a criminal record, an incomplete education, a fucked-up mind and body. The other 4 should be able to support that loser for the rest of his life as he or she bounces around from gutter to institution to prison, stealing from and preying on the other 4 along the way.
Does Ms Nancy have any grand children? Are they in their teen years?
Have you read the Obamacare bill yet Nancy? I bet it covers drug abuse treatment... Drug abusers are non-productive members of society, just like old people... They get the special pill and go to sleep.
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