Good day all,
In honor of GW's last day in office, here is his daughter Barbara, who incidently I am completely obsessed with, and his niece Lauren. I'm marrying Barbara. Jimbaugh, use your connections in DC and get me a date.
In honor of GW's last day in office, here is his daughter Barbara, who incidently I am completely obsessed with, and his niece Lauren. I'm marrying Barbara. Jimbaugh, use your connections in DC and get me a date.
T-minus less than 24 hours before Barack Obama MF! I will devote this column to how President Obama can save the wretched US economy. The easiest and quickest way to save the economy rests with one word and one word only... weed (hemp and weed to be precise).
When FDR became president he realized how horrible prohibition was for the country. People were still drinking the same amount that they used to, but bootleggers and more importantly, the Mafia, were providing the quenching libations that the country still desired. So, all that prohibition really did was take away tax revenue and enable the meteoric rise of the Mob.
Click here for an interesting read on how Prohibition was repealed.
We are in the midsts of what I believe will be a depression far greater than the Great depression of the 30's. We have had an artificial economy based on building houses. When 1/3 of the economy is housing based, there are serious concerns when that collapses. Those jobs are not coming back for a long long time b/c.... well... there is such an oversupply of inventory, we could go another 20 years without building another house and still have a surplus. So if people think these jobs are coming back, they will be sorely mistaken.
Which brings me to my point about marijuana. Legalization of marajuana will do many great things for the country. All of these points are linked and I will do my best to make this point flow smoothly, but remember, I am but a blogger and my writing skills are severely below average.
1) Creation of Tax revenues. Being a California resident, I will not be receiving a tax return this year b/c the state is 45 BILLION dollars in debt. Yes, you read that correctly. $45,000,000,000. The prison budget for this year is $9 BILLION! Sheeeeeeeeeeit. I do not have a specific number to the amount of people who have been incarcerated due to weed, but it can't be a low number.
2) State and Federal agents focus on more heinous crimes. The amount of money that the state and federal agencies spend on the war on drugs is mind blowing. If we can eliminate a big portion of this budget to where they can focus more relevant crimes, this will ease the pressure on these agents.
3) Creation of shipping, distributing, and farming jobs. One big benefit of FDR's repeal of prohibition was an explosion is trucking, packaging and distributing.
4) People are going to do what they want. Whenever I suggest my plan people always say, "Well if it were legal everyone would be driiving around high!" Well, alcohol is legal and people either drive drunk or they don't drive drunk. The number of health related issues due to excessive alcohol consumption is far worse than the health related issues due to smoking weed. Either people are going to smoke or they aren't. It's really that simple.
5) For underage kids, buying weed is much easier than buying alcohol. You see all these television ads where it's showing underage kids smoking weed and making them out to be losers, but you never see ads about underage kids drinking. Huh, seems like the government knows that kids can buy weed pretty easily.
I'm rambling and it's 78 and sunny outside so I gotta roll. Thanks for reading and I hope that I've given you some insight into why I hate old white guys.
Update: As if President Bush were reading my blog he pardoned the two border agents who shot drug smuggler who was smuggling in.... you guessed it... WEED!!!
