An Award for Nancy Pelosi

Posted by Larry Miller on May 12, 2010 under Why | Be the First to Comment

After observing the political scene with more than mild interest for many years, I have often felt the need to recognize outstanding performances by some of the movers and shakers in our world. The time has come that there is no other choice. In qualifying for the award, House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi recently made the following comment:

“Well if your question is about drugs, I’m for reducing demand in the United States, that is what our responsibility is on this subject. The RAND Corporation a few years ago did a report that said it would be much less expensive for us to, through prevention first and foremost, but through treatment on demand to reduce demand in our country, is the cheapest way to solve this problem.

“Incarceration is the next cheapest, it costs seven times more to incarcerate than to have treatment on demand. It costs 15 times more to interdict at the border. And it costs 25 times more with eradication of the cocoa leaf. This is an issue that it is very important to our country because of what it’s doing to our teenagers. That is the problem, what it is doing to our people.”

While the statistics themselves are open to dispute, considering the Speaker’s words that prevention is best, but if that doesn’t work, the next best thing is rehab for teenagers destroying their lives in the drug culture, if they ask for it! I guess, to her thinking, it would be even cheaper if the kid’s overdosed and died. Somehow that doesn’t seem to be a proper function of government to encourage this kind of outcome.

It might be even be possible that there is some validity to the RAND Corporation’s numbers, but does it take into account the wasted lives, the under-achievements, the number living under a bridge because their drug damaged brains would not let them perform as a normal human being.

The thought of not trying or at least not trying very hard to prevent these vultures from growing wealthy by sucking the life out of our youth who are being taught by an education establishment that pushes them to set aside traditional values and explore whatever hair brain idea tickles their fancy is not worthy of our government. In fact, many of those influencing our children are products of the drug saturated 60s and 70s.

Of course drying up the demand will end, or at least reduce the flow of dangerous drugs into our country, but that has been tried for years with little impact. The other alternative is to stem the flow, which has not always been a high priority and has not been that effective. If someone were chasing my child with a knife, I would do everything to disarm the man, even to the point of turning the weapon on him. Someone is chasing our children with deadly drugs, and the Speaker says we should just concern ourselves with rehabilitation once they have fallen victim… I guess she is hoping that rehabilitation is even possible. The irony is that the the rehab facilities that tend to have high success rates are faith based institutions, like Teen Challenge… the very ones the current administration is attempting to supplant.

It is this thinking that qualifies Nancy Pelosi for the very first Dumb as an Onion Award. If she were not so committed to neglecting her duty to protect the citizens and protecting the open borders that bring in cheap labor for contributors and potential nanny state voters, she would see that our youth are worth protecting, even if it would be cheaper to let them destroy themselves.

Some would say this dereliction goes beyond foolish, ignorant and stupid, into the realm of the evil. This is possible, but I’m trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. Then the least bad description is that she is Dumb as an Onion.

Click here to see the beautiful certificate we are attempting to deliver to the Speaker of the House.