In the US we squander billions on drug-law enforcement, starve education
I suppose that our legislators think spending billions upon billions fighting a harmless plant and locking up a higher proportion of our citizens than any other country in the world is worth depriving our next generation—our nation’s future—of good educations. Check this out. It seems easy to say, “We can’t afford good schools and teachers,” but impossible to say, “We can’t afford all the money we’re spending to enforce futile drug laws and imprison millions of people.”
See The Wire, Seasons 1 and 5.
Linda McConnell
25 June 2011 at 9:14 am
Exactly!!
LeisureGuy
25 June 2011 at 9:17 am