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World Bank Says $2B Needed To Lure Farms Away From Drug Production
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- As long as there are people who choose to cut corners, break laws and hurt others to make a quick buck we are going to have to finance a campaign against Drugs, Pedophilia, Bank Robbery, Assault, and so on.
Posted by marcpcbs at 12:14 PM : Feb 05, 2008
Now that is a nasty tactic...put drugs right next to pedophilia in a transparent attempt to infer a linkage.
If we could just get Goldman Sachs interested in the profit potential, drugs would be legal as soon as Paulson told Bush to legalize them... - Reply to this comment
- Farmers grow poppies in Afghanistan because it is the most profitable cash crop. If the World Bank builds better infrastructure, it will just make growing poppies more profitable.
Where do they get the idea that farmers will grow less profitable crops if they have better infrastructure? How stupid can these officials be?
Oh, wait, the bankers are really interested in expanding the opium trade by improving the means of production, aren''t they? Now I am enlightened! - Reply to this comment
- jimfinster
These are 2007 statistics from the Federal Board of Education. This is a nation wide average. The drop out rate is higher in sertain areas.
Look it up - Reply to this comment
- Jimfinster
%u201CWell, take a look at the statistics from the "war on drugs" to date. We have spent billions of dollars on interdiction with little or no reduction in drug flow. This is clearly not the answer. Experts believe the most effective tools are education and treatment for drug users. But our govt has not done a good job in that area....%u201D
WRONG! Experts. What Experts?
That%u2019s like saying to a sailor. %u201CDon%u2019t fix the holes in the hull, just start bailing.%u201D
As long as there are people who choose to cut corners, break laws and hurt others to make a quick buck we are going to have to finance a campaign against Drugs, Pedophilia, Bank Robbery, Assault, and so on. - Reply to this comment
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Where in the world did you get a dropout rate of 50%?
Statistics I have seen show a dropout rate of 9% for the age group 16-24. - Reply to this comment
- Anyone here who thinks that the war on drugs is a waste of time or un-winnable needs to go down to their local ER and talk to the admitting nurse about how funny it is to see a never ending line of overdosed kids streaming through.
Then go talk to a teacher and ask what%u2019s causing the 50% drop out rate in today%u2019s schools.
Posted by marcpcbs
Well, take a look at the statistics from the "war on drugs" to date. We have spent billions of dollars on interdiction with little or no reduction in drug flow. This is clearly not the answer. Experts believe the most effective tools are education and treatment for drug users. But our govt has not done a good job in that area.... - Reply to this comment
- The war on drugs is actually a war on crime. It%u2019s not likely to ever stop. Should we give up the war on child rape? Should we cancel the war on bank robbery?
Come on people most of the drugs consumed today are consumed by kids under 18 years old. Our kids are important cause they are the future. - Reply to this comment
- Anyone here who thinks that the war on drugs is a waste of time or un-winnable needs to go down to their local ER and talk to the admitting nurse about how funny it is to see a never ending line of overdosed kids streaming through.
Then go talk to a teacher and ask what%u2019s causing the 50% drop out rate in today%u2019s schools. - Reply to this comment
- Anyone here who thinks that the war on drugs is a waste of time or un-winnable needs to go down to their local ER and talk to the admitting nurse about how funny it is to see a never ending line OD overdosed kids streaming through.
Then go talk to a teacher and ask whets causing the 50% drop out rate in today%u2019s schools. - Reply to this comment
- zoe2006
%u201CIt%u2019s about time to legalize marijuana and tax it like cigarettes. Sell it like liquor; it works in Europe.%u201D
WRONG!
The people who say legalize marijuana don''t know or care that 70% of the $50+ Billion dollar a year made form pot sales comes from children%u2019s pockets in our schools and that wont go away if we legalize it. It will just get worse. Pot growers aren%u2019t medicine makers; they%u2019re drug dealers and they always have been. THC has been available in pill form for over 35 years now and the contents of pot smoke are more poisonous than what%u2019s in cigarette smoke.
FYI Europe is having a terrible time because of it%u2019s abandonment of its drug laws. There are article in the paper frequently about how they regret the day they through their drug laws out. The kids can%u2019t learn on pot. Anywhere. - Reply to this comment
- Bloomberg can give one Billion. They say he''s a Billionair Mayor.
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- "The compact is a five-year blueprint between the international community and the Afghan government to promote security, good governance, the rule of law, human rights and economic and social development in Afghanistan," It''s amazing how the American media never says anything about the pipeline, and the increased security the world bank wants ot put on their investment. Who''s building the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline? Oh yeah, the Asian Development Bank. Honestly, if American''s got any dumber...
Hey so-called conservatives, why don''t you do absolutly nothing about the corruption in D.C.. Good job American dumbasses. - Reply to this comment
- Let''s see, the war on drugs is going on now for some 40 years with no end in sight. Uh, world bank, just loan them the money. What is that, you say, you want to give them MY money because the world bank never expects to be paid back.
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- "Freaking liberals sticking their noses in everybodys business..."
That just shows the power of the Neocon press, Limbaugh, Fox, et al.
It isn''t the liberals who decided to tap your phone calls and look at your library records. It isn''t the liberals who want to legislate a woman''s womb, and it isn''t the liberals using the false premise of "national security" to invade every aspect of your personal life. It isn''t the liberals who gave you an 8 trillion dollar deficit which is a tax on your future and your kids future.
No, that was all from your family values conservatives: David Vitter, Mark Foley, Larry Craig, and yes, Rush Limbaugh, the three times married synthetic morphine addict. - Reply to this comment
- Somehow poeple think if we beat a square peg hard enough we can get it through a round hole. Since we dont really have control of our govt anymore, I suppose we will end up financing this through more taxes layed on us.
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- The World is becoming full of Socialist/Communists.
Freaking liberals sticking their noses in everybodys business and the solution as always..... Money. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by hungry1968
Watch out for the trap, the drug lords in the WH want to dry up the supply, which will automatically drive up the price, making it even more valuable, and the cycle will continue, more people will die, and guess who makes more money out of the whole thing?
Ironic that if pot, hash, cocaine and opium were legal, these substances wouldn''t make 0.001% of the profit that they do now, and it wouldn''t be worth trafficking, jails and courts, and tax dollars wouldn''t be wasted on people who have harmed no one, and the stoners would be as medicated as the government wants them to be, too apathetic to fight corruption.
What''s more the government could raise taxes on the substances as high as they wish, and still people would but it. right now, I hear in the US, good pot is half the price of gold bullion.
Think about it... - Reply to this comment
- How about telling the folks that use the product, "Just Say No"....its cheaper and will pretty much get the same results!
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- "World Bank Wants $2B To Fight Opium Trade"
If this doesn''t come right out and say who is running the New World Order. - Reply to this comment
- Just keep burning the crops. Napalm, flame throwers, herbicides, etc. Keep killing / eradicating the plants, and they won''t have a choice but to get away from it.
If the infrastructure really does need to be constructed, maybe Haliburton could do it pro bono. After all, we''re paying them billions of dollars a month for 5 years, so we know they can afford it. - Reply to this comment
