Mexico Trucking Issue Hits Home for U.S. Agriculture

Let the Mexican's drive all they want,,,ON THEIR SIDE OF THE BORDER.
The Mexican Government can't control the drug cartel, What make's them compentant enough to enforce sending safe truck's and driver's to the U.S.A.

 

Aren't they both the same thing..? I have been wondering about something,maybe I wasn't paying attention in school..(some of my figures will be wrong) but,OK.,Mexico had a what,200 year head start on the U.S.,and look at what they are..nothing but a 3rd world country..for that matter,the Middle East had a what,2000 year head start and look at them...Sadly...if we let Mexico take us over without firing a shot..,how can we NOT turn into what they are?? Maybe that is why the old Soviet Union has been so quiet..they have a plan to be put in place in,oh,50 years or so...WHY are we just giving this country away..?? And,WHY do I have to press 1,for English?

 

Precisely why drugs need to be legalized and regulated. The cartels would go out of business, addicts could be treated as patients and not criminals, kids won't lose their college funding for making poor decisions.



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Treated as patients, and supported by the US taxpayer - no thanks, drug users are already enough of a drain on our economy - when's the last time you heard of a middle to lower income drug addict paying for their own rehab and follow-up, only to use again.

No thanks, all the way around. Folks think legalizing drugs is the answer to everything - even if legalized, it's not like it could be truly controlled for tax revenue.

What a seriously juvenile argument to think that legalizing drugs is the answer to all of society's problems, including POS Mexican trucks.

 

I don't know how old you are,but I have been hearing arguments to legalize drugs since 1972 when I was 12 years old...and here we are today.. In something unrelated;I heard a trucker last week preaching we are going to lose private ownership of firearms..Almost the EXACT same speech I heard in 1981,when I became an NRA member...By the way,the gun cabinet at home is still full,and,although sadly IMO,no "smoke" is in the house.. and illegal aliens everywhere..just legalize them to,I suppose?

 

They are already supported by the taxpayers. When you put someone in a cage it costs anywhere from $30,000 - $45,000 a year. Why not invest in treatment and prevention rather than enforcement?

I don't think it is the answer to everything... I think it is the answer to:

1) Defunding massive criminal enterprise,
2) Lowering the level of disease, addiction, and use; and
3) Drastically lowering the crime associated with addicts doing anything to purchase drugs they're addicted to.

I didn't say it had anything to do with trucks.

I don't think my having an opinion that differs from yours on the issue of drug prohibition policy makes it "juvenile." You may disagree with my opinion, but that doesn't make it a juvenile one.

I could argue that your beliving drug prohibition will one day actually work after over a trillion dollars invested in fighting it is a stupid opinion to have, but I'm not about to call you or your argument names.

 

I've just noticed that potheads want pot legalized the most, and they'll conjure up arguments to try to achieve their goal.

I disagree. Drug usage, whether legal or not, isn't "good" for anyone.. so you'll have to forgive my opposition. If we were trying to get people to take vitamins, I'd be a cheerleader.

 

Marijuana is provably far safer to use than alcohol. Alcohol kills well over 100,000 people per year by secondary causes (crashes, etc.) and it kills upwards of 20,000+ per year by primary causes (sclerosis, etc.). Alcohol is a very dangerous drug to use and personally I don't use it. Marijuana, in compairson, has never (NEVER) been linked to the primary cause of death of a single human being from its USE. Marijuana is linked to the deaths of thousands of people by its illegal status.

Drug cartels kill when their market is threatened, just like Al Capone did in the 1920s. When is the last time you heard of Budweiser and Carona shooting it out in the streets?

Were I to say that we should make alcohol illegal again because of its dangers, hopefully people would tell me I was nuts for suggesting something that has already been tried. When the 18th Amendment passed in 1919 what ensued was a violent black market, increased alcohol deaths due to unregulated products, and hard liquor was born.

Alcohol was made legal again in 1933 upon the passage of the 21st Amendment. We didn't re-legalize alcohol because it is good for you. We re-legalized it because alcohol is too dangerous a drug to be left controlled by criminals.

Similarly, all other illegal drugs today are too dangerous to be controlled by criminals.

I respect your disagreement

I'm afraid you may be thinking that my wanting drugs legalized is my supporting there use. It's not.

I'm supporting ending drug prohibition today for the same reasons the 21st Amendment passed: Drugs are too dangerous to be controlled by criminals.

 

How about we just destroy any drugs found, since they don't help anyone. Can you tell I'm against drug use altogether, so I don't see the point of arguing about them? And anyone arguing in any matter of support for any type of drugs is an idiot.