Mandatory Drug Testing in High Schools (Franklin: real estate, 2015, transfer)
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Perhaps we should let the drug problem run its course.
China did...was paid for trade goods with Opium. (1858 by the English and Portugese)
In less than 100 years the country was a complete failure.
Enter, Mao Tze Tung (1949)...and in about 3 brief years the drug problem was irradicated completly.
62 years later, they are a light of capitalistic prosperity shining to the world.
Mao turned his country of over 1 Billion people around in only 2 generations.
I believe we could solve our drug problem is just a few short years...if one state took the lead, others would follow.
You're correct, we should follow China's model. I was getting sick of not making iPods for 18 hours a day and watching my coworkers jump out the window.
Of course, you're probably trying to imply that us "communists" that support "maobama" should be supporting this drug test idea because our paradise, a socialist paradise named China, managed to eradicate drug usage by being involved in every facet of its citizen's lives. What you fail to understand is that maobama and the communists who voted for him are nothing but a faux news fabrication parroted by the likes of you, CT and Rush enough that some idiots actually believe it.
Yes, Mao just killed all opium users, along with millions of Chinese people. Millions also died due to his incompetence, but clearly Mao is a model that any leader should emulate. I am sure there is great wisdom in WV looking for Mao as an example of leadership. Why they are at it they can also study Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Franco, for ideas on how to fix WV's problems.
I've been looking back through my mind and searching for a great Wv leader. Morgan Morgan comes to mind...in our time, I liked Gaston Caperton because he was so much ahead of the curve.
I don't think we have had any great leaders.
Good leaders stand out and make change happen for good quickly...Mother Jones did that for the Wv coal miners when they had no leader.
The Civil War wrecked the state and it is just now recovering from that catastrophe.
I see our current legislature as a new group of people under the gun.
They have incredible resources at hand for the first time in the states history and actually intend to use the money wisely.
Governments work slowly.
Nothing ever happens fast enough but a process of positive change is taking place.
The Pol Pots of the world let us know that government leaders with unlimited powers should not be college professors.
Lenin gave us the lesson that those leaders should not come from the prison ranks, and so on.
Sometimes the leadership of countries parallel the axiom of the mafia...
'The money (power and timing) is there for the taking, if I don't take it someone else will.'
Perhaps the work place drug problem should be ignored, but if I needed a lawyer, or plumber or Doctor, I would hope to find one that is drug free and capable of competent thought and action.
And to those kids who will wreck their lives...???
Do we owe them anything?
When they are hooked. they will be the slave to a chemical...how crazy is that?
There is one thing that I will say about the 'head in the sand mentality...it is a safe one.
It's safe until time goes by and a person pulls his head out of the sand and sees the change.
You're making way too big a deal about this. WV and a whole lot of other states have hard drug issues true, but it seems like you're trying to lump in pot (for some reason) with opium, heroin, and a wide variety of hard drugs. Though I find it hard to believe that 96% (24/25) applicants for a job can't pass a drug test, but regardless of what the true number is, I'm sure that number would drop dramatically if pot was excluded.
Private companies have a right to hire who they want and drug test if they like. The government doesn't have a right to test minors - point blank period.
You have a very valid point, Majic...gave you points for that informative post.
The point that 24 out of 25 people in WV will fail a drug test was already pointed out as being dubious. If that were the case than WV would have the worst drug problem in the nation, and probably the world.
Criticism is something that we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing. 'Aristotle'
Thank you for making my point.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
-Socrates
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