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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chalu2 who wrote (4982)	9/6/1999 8:07:00 PM
From: truedog	Respond to of 769670

to: chalu2 from: truedog chalu, I truly believe that he does view substance abuse with compassion. Also, these people are tried and convicted in courts and not by the governor. Most,if not all, state judges are elected instead of being appointed and many of these were elected prior to GW becoming governor,so, you may be,and probably are,blaming him for things he did not do. I do know, but we have had more drug busts of major proportions than ever before which has netted tons of narcotics,cash,and criminals. I am in favor of that. They are the ones that cause young children to become addicted in the first place. I am dead set against any clemency for terrorist regardless of where they come from,including Puerto Rico. I believe this whole thing was hatched because Billy Jeff,in all his majesty,thought such action would help Hill's election chances. When that proved to be very unpopular with NY voters, she broke ranks with him in public. That shows you just how highly she regards him. A match made in hell...TD

To: chalu2 who wrote (4982)	9/7/1999 1:24:00 AM
From: dfloydr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Interesting details on Fed. funding efforts to treat alcoholism. Note that with the broad use of treatments alcohol use has been declining nation wide and drunken driving accidents and deaths are down substantially over the last ten years. Note also that in the case of drugs, where we take the Drug War approach, we have had a twenty or more year outright disaster with more dead than Vietmnam and not one square foot of US territory has been rendered safe from drugs yet. The major achievements of this war to date: - the drug lords and their sales and marketing employees are fabulously rich - the jail builders have been busy raising taxes to pay for construction of the largest collection of jails on the planet ... a veritable American Goolag - our courts are hopelessly clogged and almost non-functional. Maybe we could learn something here since drugs and alcohol are both similarly addictive substances. Maybe it is time to turn Federal dollars from the "drug wars" to treatments that seem to at least show some sign of progress. Of course every politician and police chief has been the recipient of large amounts of money to bolster and fight the Drug War so those guys are hooked on the current game plan even though it is a rotten failure.