The US government spends $600b on substance abuse programs.

Yet, the same politicians which pour hundreds of billions a year into drugs — legal and otherwise — think $5b is “too expensive”.

This is the same type of paradoxical logic that pervades American government officials.

However, it is not entirely their fault.

Most of our leaders are graduates from left-leaning universities where liberal professors spend hours on the immorality of border security, while ignoring the lunacy of throwing billions at drug programs.

What’s more, they actually encourage the legalization of drugs through catch phrases like “recreational” substances!

Imagine an America where a Tony Montana lands a segment on CNBC discussing the fluctuating stocks of his company?

As far fetched as it sounds, if the US legalizes drugs, this could become a reality.

I digress.

We should demand our leaders redirect those billions to securing our borders!

If every Republican voter called their Representative and Senator today demanding the money be redirected, this would happen tomorrow.

The sad thing is, the American public allows its politicians to not do the right thing.

Via The American Thinker:

President Trump has made it clear with his two recent addresses on the crisis on the border and subsequent government shutdown that the crisis is about stopping illegal drugs from entering the country. These drugs are something that all Americans are impacted by regardless of their proximity to the southern border. The death toll of drug overdoses in the past ten years is equal to the population of Boston, Massachusetts, and substance abuse costs United States taxpayers upwards of $600 billion a year.

Much of that is spent on Democratic pet projects aimed at tackling this problem. Even if the president and his supporters also see another benefit of the wall, stemming the flow of illegal immigration, Democrats should still be supporting any proposal that provides an avenue to ending America’s drug crisis.

Democrats already support other means meant to deal with the growing opioid crisis by offering government-funded “free” needles and drug injection sites, “free” Narcan and overdose-related health care costs, and “free” rehabilitation and “free” methadone programs for recovering addicts.

There are approximately 185 Needle Exchange Programs operating in the United States. The ACLU estimates that the average city spends $160,000 of taxpayer money a year on each NEP, which amounts to almost $30 million a year. San Francisco, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s own district, has begun to open the country’s first “safe injection site,” where drug-users can mainline their drug of choice in a “safe, government-funded space” and where addicts won’t have to face fears of arrest.

According to the ONDCP, between 9.5 billion and 13.5 billion taxpayer dollars are spent on drug treatment and rehabs each year.

Taxpayers are also paying for Narcan, a drug distributed by paramedics in the event of an opioid overdose, which costs approximately $70 per dose. That does not cover the ambulance ride itself. Middletown, Ohio city councilman Dan Picard estimates that each ambulance run for an overdose costs the city $1,140.

One year of methadone costs $4,700 per patient, which brings the known costs of substance abuse to $600 billion annually and doesn’t measure the price communities face in crime, disease, local prevention programs, and tragic loss of life [emphasis added].

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