RE: Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?
September 21, 2014 at 1:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2014 at 1:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The most recent data (2013) I can find states that the average tuition fee for a 4 year degree program at a public, in state college is $8,893.
During that same period, the requested level of funding for the war on drugs was $25.6 billion (and this ignores other funds from other sources that either directly or indirectly get used for the same purpose or to support that machinery of that war).
That's nearly 2.9 million chunks of tuition. For perspective - that's a number larger than the -population totals- of 17 of our states individually, a hell of alot of people. It's also a larger number than the populations of all but 17 of the nations cities. Coming from St. Pete - (which makes that list, and is the cutoff for our numbers)....it would be as though every single person "8- 80, blind crippled or crazy"...as the saying goes.... in the city I grew up in was shipped off to college on the states dime. It's also roughly equivalent to 10% of the number of students enrolled in colleges nationwide. A hell of alot of college students, specifically.
Granted, not every penny in the war on drugs is wasted - but surely a portion of that money might be diverted and thusly better spent. Any number bridging the gap between 0 and 2.9 million is likely to make -some- difference. This is just one possible avenue for spending that money, obviously. I know that you're not standing up for the war on drugs explicitly Cap - don;t want you to get the idea that this is a direct rebuttal to anything you mentioned, it's not (and I suspect that we share at least some common opinions on that count). I just wanted to quantify what we were discussing for the peanut gallery.
During that same period, the requested level of funding for the war on drugs was $25.6 billion (and this ignores other funds from other sources that either directly or indirectly get used for the same purpose or to support that machinery of that war).
That's nearly 2.9 million chunks of tuition. For perspective - that's a number larger than the -population totals- of 17 of our states individually, a hell of alot of people. It's also a larger number than the populations of all but 17 of the nations cities. Coming from St. Pete - (which makes that list, and is the cutoff for our numbers)....it would be as though every single person "8- 80, blind crippled or crazy"...as the saying goes.... in the city I grew up in was shipped off to college on the states dime. It's also roughly equivalent to 10% of the number of students enrolled in colleges nationwide. A hell of alot of college students, specifically.
Granted, not every penny in the war on drugs is wasted - but surely a portion of that money might be diverted and thusly better spent. Any number bridging the gap between 0 and 2.9 million is likely to make -some- difference. This is just one possible avenue for spending that money, obviously. I know that you're not standing up for the war on drugs explicitly Cap - don;t want you to get the idea that this is a direct rebuttal to anything you mentioned, it's not (and I suspect that we share at least some common opinions on that count). I just wanted to quantify what we were discussing for the peanut gallery.
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