<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">>A group got together some money, went<br>into a drug infested area of an inner city neighborhood with a doctor<br>
and offered a few hundred dollars to any young lady that wished to be<br>relieved of her reproductive capacity. To me this is a<br>win-win-win-small lose situation. If I had a million dollars, I think<br>this might be my favorite charity.<br>
<br>The problem is that drug babies cost the country a HUGE amount of<br>money. Many hundreds of thousands of dollars per child, over their<br>life time. The girls don't really want to get pregnant for the most<br>part. The beauty of this solution is that everyone is a volunteer in<br>
the equation.<</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">This seems reasonable, at first blush. The problem is, and I'm making this assumption based on your post, that you're speaking of drug addicts Cravings for certain types of drugs such as heroine and crystal meth and cocaine are so powerful and so dominate in the mid-brain--over-powering sex drive, hunger and even the instinct for self-preservation--that you can offer a drug addict money to do just about anything and they will likely do it. People would, and gladly do, kill someone because they are offered a couple hundred dollars to do so. Granted there is at least one involuntary participant in this transaction.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">But you could offer money or something else she really wanted or saw herself as needing to someone who was mentally challenged to have herself sterilized and perhaps convince her, because she didn't have the mental capacity to know what she was agreeing to. Drug addicts in the throes of their addictions need to be treated the same way, as if they have a disability. A more complex but equally cost-effective solution would be to get that person in treatment and clean, where they could make better decisions about reproduction and everything else. But then again, here treatment is covered by the state, and I know in some places it is not. About ten percent of entrants get clean, which is a pretty low rate. But it saves the state and individuals an enormous amount of money in the end, for it is not just drug babies that are expensive. Drug adults are too -- hospitals and detoxes, shelters and foodbanks, welfare and crime.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">And the war on drugs is useless, as all wars ultimately are. As Dr. Terry Tafoya said, "'Just say no' to a drug addict is as about as useful as 'have a nice day' is to a manic depressive."</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Darren</span></div>