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From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-Hammock on 6 Jul 2010 11:09
OK, let's leave the Christians alone for a while (while they are busy
praying and making money) and face another problem... What are going
to do with the cook? How about all those contractors who make a living
out of the Prison Industry? It ain't easy, you know...

Re: What would happen if we legalized drugs?

We have to keep in mind that whether or not we "should" legalize what
are currently classified as "illegal drugs", we (through our
government) have made the decision that we should spend a certain
percentage of our tax revenues on law enforcement and prisons. With
only 300M of the worlds ~6-7 billion people, we have over 1/2 of the
world's incarcerated population. The infrastructure and personnel
needed to process all of these people (start with police, judges, DAs,
private attorneys, COOKS, laundry services, energy resources and so on
and so on) adds up to a huge amount of money--money which someone out
there is perfectly happy to earn. Were we to stop our prosecution of
the "war on drugs" think of all the people who would be out of jobs. A
few murders here and there and often in foreign countries do not weigh
on the mind of the body politic in the same way that unemployment does
especially in our current economic climate.

I'd propose that a more focused question would be of the form: "Were
we to legalize drugs, in what manner would we redistribute the
infrastructure and personnel currently utilized to enforce our drug
laws?" It's fine to say that the drugs would become a taxable item,
but how do you filter the generated tax income to the police officer/
judge/prison COOK who has now become redundant and thus, unemployed?
Not saying it's "right" that they are employed, just acknowledging
that our penal system does exist, does employ people and does consume
resources--all of which contributes back into the system from which it
was originally taken in the form of taxes.

http://hypography.com/forums/political-sciences/19349-what-would-happen-if-we-legalized.html


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THE WISE TIBETAN MONKEY SAYS

"Never become an enemy of the cook!"

http://webspawner.com/users/MASTURBATIONFORPEACE (safe alternative to
drugs?)
From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-Hammock on 6 Jul 2010 18:36
On Jul 6, 5:07 pm, B Sellers <bl...(a)sfo.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/2010 01:24 PM, His Highness the TibetanMonkey,
>
> > PE trainers though are really important jobs to keep the young people
> > busy on something else other than drugs and crime.
>
> Yes the PE teachers and requirements are very important and
> needed a witness the epidemic of youth obesity.
> I don't even like PE for my own experiences but without it being
> a requirement in schools the kids have gotten sloppily fat. The
> proper education of children almost demands PE and it along with
> other needed programs like art and music have been dropped in
> order that dopers can be locked up.

Riding a bicycle could do the job of a PE trainer, but we want a job
for him, right?

>
>
>
> > Then we issue a hammock to whoever is left jobless.
>
> You may issue a hammock but in the USA most places we
> need a lot more than a system to ruin our backs, You need
> something to hook the hammock to when you want to sleep
> and I doubt that parking meter standards are up to the stress.
>
> Then we need facilities for nutrition and excretion and in
> most of the USA for a substantial portion of each year we need
> shelter from the heat of Summer and the cold of Winter and in
> Alaska the Winter is most of the year.
>
> later
> bliss

Then we need igloos for Alaska, and Hammocks for the summer in the
Lower 49.

The point is that we plant a lot of trees and consume as little energy
as possible, short of riding a bike, which is nearly impossible under
the current lawless conditions on the roads.


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