justanoldtimer
Member
hey people....
ok i lied, no chicks here, and definitely no free sex. some people think its
worth paying for sex, i think its worth it to pay her to leave.
now that i have your attention thru my false advertising, I have a rant,
It is my belief that the government is wasting out time and money and peoples lives too,
on a war that in thousands of years history has shown cant be won.
yes Im talking about the war on drugs.
Basically I feel cocaine, heroin and marijuana should all be legal.
Now its a fact that many governments, and local police here in the states too, feel that arresting heroin addicts is a cruel way to handle someone with a disease. As of recent news Amsterdam admits to clamping down on dope dealers at a local park, which just pushed the dealers into coffee shops.
so now they are considering legalizing heroin. several towns in mass have taken to stop arresting users and opting to get them help instead.
In both instances, the outcome is showing some form of compassion, with a realistic expectation
of the outcome. This sure beats placing 1000's of drug users, if not millions into a jail, labeling them a convict and tearing apart families in the process. There is no compassion in jailing a drug user, and upon release will surely use drugs again. The only real benefit is we can now give an under educated, under qualified person a job as a prison guard.
Now if we did in fact legalize marijuana, cocaine and heroin, you must realize the jails population today are comprised of 80% drug related crimes. This means an 80% drop in our jails.
Now I'm not without compassion. I have an ulterior motive, or a two fold plan.....
you see we would now have all these empty jails, and unemployed prison guards.
We need to fill these buildings and find work for the guards....
now lets talk about the education system in this country, our children are not getting the education the need to prepare them for entry into society. I went for a few years to a catholic grade school....
we had 62 kids in a class to one nun teaching the class. I also attended many private schools
where class size was limited to 6 or 7 kids to a class.
Now I know I have your brain going, but think about this for a minute, if I wanted to open a day care facility and babysit and change diapers and such....there are laws in place limiting the number of kids I can care for per adult I employ. Sounds logical huh? It does to me too.
Hence I think we need to rethink our entire education system and start by limiting not only the size of a school but the size of our class rooms too. These large regional schools and the schools in large cities need to be cut up into smaller schools. Lets put a limit on school size at somewhere around 500 kids in total and class size to under 12. Another alternative method to education is to have the teacher in 1st grade follow the students thru 12th grade, we now have one person responsible for a child's education, and that child has a good chance at growing up with respect and an education that matters. With any luck he may even pull his pants..... all the way up !!
Jails can be converted to schools, guards can learn to become teachers if they so choose, if not....7-11 is always hiring.
We need to invest in our future. Yes my idea is a costly plan indeed, more schools, more teachers, more money, but it will cost less than jailing drug users. If we invest in the children of today, we will have a better tomorrow.
Peace out
ok i lied, no chicks here, and definitely no free sex. some people think its
worth paying for sex, i think its worth it to pay her to leave.
now that i have your attention thru my false advertising, I have a rant,
It is my belief that the government is wasting out time and money and peoples lives too,
on a war that in thousands of years history has shown cant be won.
yes Im talking about the war on drugs.
Basically I feel cocaine, heroin and marijuana should all be legal.
Now its a fact that many governments, and local police here in the states too, feel that arresting heroin addicts is a cruel way to handle someone with a disease. As of recent news Amsterdam admits to clamping down on dope dealers at a local park, which just pushed the dealers into coffee shops.
so now they are considering legalizing heroin. several towns in mass have taken to stop arresting users and opting to get them help instead.
In both instances, the outcome is showing some form of compassion, with a realistic expectation
of the outcome. This sure beats placing 1000's of drug users, if not millions into a jail, labeling them a convict and tearing apart families in the process. There is no compassion in jailing a drug user, and upon release will surely use drugs again. The only real benefit is we can now give an under educated, under qualified person a job as a prison guard.
Now if we did in fact legalize marijuana, cocaine and heroin, you must realize the jails population today are comprised of 80% drug related crimes. This means an 80% drop in our jails.
Now I'm not without compassion. I have an ulterior motive, or a two fold plan.....
you see we would now have all these empty jails, and unemployed prison guards.
We need to fill these buildings and find work for the guards....
now lets talk about the education system in this country, our children are not getting the education the need to prepare them for entry into society. I went for a few years to a catholic grade school....
we had 62 kids in a class to one nun teaching the class. I also attended many private schools
where class size was limited to 6 or 7 kids to a class.
Now I know I have your brain going, but think about this for a minute, if I wanted to open a day care facility and babysit and change diapers and such....there are laws in place limiting the number of kids I can care for per adult I employ. Sounds logical huh? It does to me too.
Hence I think we need to rethink our entire education system and start by limiting not only the size of a school but the size of our class rooms too. These large regional schools and the schools in large cities need to be cut up into smaller schools. Lets put a limit on school size at somewhere around 500 kids in total and class size to under 12. Another alternative method to education is to have the teacher in 1st grade follow the students thru 12th grade, we now have one person responsible for a child's education, and that child has a good chance at growing up with respect and an education that matters. With any luck he may even pull his pants..... all the way up !!
Jails can be converted to schools, guards can learn to become teachers if they so choose, if not....7-11 is always hiring.
We need to invest in our future. Yes my idea is a costly plan indeed, more schools, more teachers, more money, but it will cost less than jailing drug users. If we invest in the children of today, we will have a better tomorrow.
Peace out
