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wtagg1 year, 6 months ago

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Ironically, this is the true conservative approach to the problem. The current approach has been attempted for almost 90 years with little or no return for the effort.
Let's see, what business would pursue such a program for 90 years with no return on investment or progress in solving the problem? Is our current approach part of the problem?

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  walden31 year, 6 months ago
  
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  There's been lots of returns to the: big daddy government, prison industry, the cops, the judges, those that make stuff to spy on us, the lawyers, the CIA and so on.
  I'm more conservative than most Republican poseurs on this website.
  
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    RickyDawkins1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    That's nothing to be proud of.
    
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      walden31 year, 6 months ago
      
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      The returns or the conservative part?
      
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        RickyDawkins1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        the netscape part
        
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        walden31 year, 6 months ago
        
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        I'm the last true conservative. I never could understand how someone could be in favor of some freedoms and not others.
        
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        Wolfie20071 year, 6 months ago
        
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        walden3
        That is so much b.s. that I won't even neg that remark. lol
        
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        walden31 year, 6 months ago
        
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        What that I'm the last true conservative or that I can't understand how someone could be in favor of some freedoms, but not others?
        Be clear man.
        
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        Teech1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        Walden: Regarding your comments on this issue, I strongly agree with you on all points.
        I personally, however, prefer the word "decriminalize" as opposed to "legalize" even though the intent may be the same. We don't have to legalize something to simply not waste billions trying to enforce the unenforceable.
        What's in a word? Sometimes a lot.
        
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        walden31 year, 6 months ago
        
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        Oh no, I'm into legalizing many, many substances that are now illegal - control it and tax it. Decriminalization doesn't do much to eliminate the black market.
        
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        Teech1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        Whatever takes the huge profits out of it will work. Anything that reduces the billions in property crimes/loss as a direct result of people having to steal to support their disease.
        
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        walden31 year, 6 months ago
        
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        And give our freaking, nosy, interventionist, big daddy government one less reason to invade our privacy and self-autonomy.
        
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        wtagg1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        I'd like to see what your definition of conservative really is.
        
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        walden31 year, 6 months ago
        
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        It's too hard to put in one sentence. As for me I'm pro-freedom, pro death penalty, pro nuclear power, pro choice, anti-interventionist, small military, fiscally conservative, no longer police force of the world, anti imperial, pro government spending on new technologies and start up businesses, definitely pro business, pro second amendment, pro gay marriage, anything between consenting adults is fine by me, pro legalizing prostitution, I believe in the power of government, I love the flag, America and apple pie.
        Forgot to mentions pro civil liberties and pro privacy against government intrusion into our private lives.
        That's my idea of conservative.
        
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        wtagg1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        Sounds good to me. Too bad our government is structured in a way that neither party seems to want to embrace that direction.
        Add to that the simplification of government, especially taxation.
        
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        walden31 year, 6 months ago
        
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        Doesn't look a whole lot like today's Republicans aye? The willing to turn anything over to the government. Strange for people who allegedly think that government is the problem.
        
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        wtagg1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        Those in power want to stay in power. My rep, Steve Latourette, was elected to the House in '94 with the class of Contract for America republicans. He supported term limits and pledged to not seek re-election in 2004. Needless to say, a broken promise. He has had his own Bill Clinton moment and he's still our rep. In many respects, the possibilities and potential that the '94 congress had have been gobbled up by governmental greed. It isn't an exclusive one party or another problem. It is a problem of the government. Governmental growth empowers the members of the government. Smaller government is not in their best interest in their desire for maintaining or growing power.
        There is nothing conservative about the majority of today's republicans. I was excited about McCain in the late 90's. Today, I am appalled by what he has become.
        
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