Skull Pilot
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- Nov 17, 2007
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Yes, unemployable people with addictions are a problem.
Because unlike you, most people will not let people just starve to death.
Which is probably okay with folks like you. "Let them die".
The GOP has good ideas, but the heartlessness is offputting to most civilized people.
When Bush called himself a "Compassionate Conservative", he was ridiculed.
Why the fuck should i have to pay for some loser drug addict when it was his choices that got him where he is?
Sooner or later people have to start being responsible for themselves.
That's not the point.
The point is that addiction is an illness. (Yes, even for poor addicts, not just Rush Limbaugh). We are treating a medical problem like a criminal one, we lock up more people than any country in the world, and we've created a permanent criminal class.
Every other country got this and treated it like a medical problem. America figured out that there was a way for Rich people to make money, so we got the War on Drugs.
Addiction is a choice.