Can we throw in Nixon for wage and price controls and the drug war?
It was never about health and welfare. It was always a political tool.
Early on it was a race based tool. And it has never changed in character.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
Myself - I would be ashamed to be a tool of those SOBs. All of them.
I bet your favorite was Willy Clinton - he doubled arrest rates in the drug war by partially Federalizing the police with the lure of Federal money. The Federal Government now effectively controls your local police force. Smart move eh?
But if you're anxious to put together a gang of goons effective enough to put a stop to it on the grounds that it's bad for you, you're just a Progressive with a slightly different agenda. The same goon-gang has the power to stop you from getting a greasy hamburger, because that's bad for you too. All the whup-ass comes from the same can, and the spoons used to dig it out are interchangeable.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/201 ... trols.html
I bet it gives you the warm fuzzies just thinking about it.
I suppose I should look at it from your point of view. Drugs are so bad that it is worth destroying our system to at least put a check on them. Or at the very least make organized crime profitable.
The road to hell is paved by tools for people with bad intentions.
I can't wait until the Masters pull the trigger and you go howling into the night - "That is NOT what I wanted." Just another tool under the bus.
As my friend at the above link said:
And if you're too self-satisfied to admit that a "police force" (or an "army") is a gang of goons with snappy clothes and a cool-sounding Mission Statement, you need to go register Democrat and join the O-fellators, because you're contributing to the problem rather than finding a solution. The whole thing starts with "my goals are Good and theirs are Bad, therefore I'm entitled to beat up on Them." Then you wake up one morning and discover yourself Them, and you resent it. F* you. You built the Machine; you got nothin' when somebody else takes the controls.