Remember this. When inflation continues to get out of control, they're going to say it would've been worse without the Inflation Reduction Act that's actually contributing to it. They always name the bills and policies the exact opposite of what they're going to accomplish. The War on Drugs is the War for Drugs. The War on Poverty is the War for Poverty.
You might have trouble understanding how making drugs illegal would be a war for drugs. Think about this. If weed were 100% legal to grow and sell, it'd be worth about a $1 per ounce. Maybe I'm off, and it'd be $5. The shit is a weed and could be grown in your backyard if it's too expensive. How much does an ounce go for these days. It's probably something like $200. Essentially, the War on Drugs has turned what would be low value things into high-priced commodities. The CIA and company control the players in the game and are getting their cut of the profits. Now they even have their for-profit prisons when the street-level chumps get thrown in jail. They could do a lot more if they really wanted to make drugs illegal, but honestly, they're not trying.
totally understand. you're essentially talking about a black market. government loves those because prices are high, regulation doesn't exist and they can raise massive profits for the black budget.
heroin from Vietnam and Afghanistan come to mind, but also cocaine from south america. how else is the CIA and IC going to fund their projects outside of their approved budget?
and yes, they name the bills almost as if they're a joke. my favorite was the "affordable healthcare act" which charged me $600 as a fine because at the time I couldn't afford nor did I think I needed to spend $500+ a month on healthcare as a healthy 26 year old. i know they wanted young and healthy ppl to pay for sick ppl and they acted like this is some brilliant thought. take from someone and give to another, which used to be called robbery, but its different when gov. does it apparently.
At that point it's not even health insurance anymore. It's everyone paying for everyone's medical bills. Insurance is supposed to be when people decide to share risks and damages together. So if 1 in 100 people gets hit with a $10,000 loss, each one could pay $100 instead of having one unlucky person pay $10,000. This is generally an ongoing thing with an ongoing risk they all share with payments preceding the damages. I find it ridiculous, though, that insurance is a business people are getting rich off of. It seems like insurance could be more of a cooperative collaboration at least for approved people.
As far as health insurance, I don't want to pay for medical expenses of ham planets and other people who do absolutely nothing to take care of their health. You've got a ton of fat niggers smoking, drinking, and eating fried food from restaurants, and there's plenty of white people living like this as well. Also, the Rockefeller medical industry is mostly a scam. The surgeons are really good at surgery, and they're good at keeping people alive and resurrecting corpses. Outside of that, the recent scam of kill shots should make you terrified to ever go to a doctor for any long-term health issues. Naturopaths are a better alternative than MDs, but in many states, insurance won't pay for such care.
i agree. i understand the need to incentivize research and development, but look where that's gotten us. pharma now makes pills and "treatments" in search of an ailment. or like cvd, they use their profits to essentially buy the government policies through bribery (oh sorry, lobbying) and the agencies that should be regulating them end up being an arm of big pharma through the revolving door, bribes and regulatory capture. it's a fucking joke and a bad one at that.
putting the profit incentive in medicine and education gets dangerous when it comes to developing new medicines. when you put a price on something you essentially say "this is for the rich". I understand single payer healthcare isn't entirely the answer either. but insurance companies are essentially middle men, who weasel their way into the middle of transaction and drive up costs.
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