Governor Chris Christie: The Jersey Comeback Has Begun

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[wpaxton]

Christie and Ronald Reagan are the only two politicians in my life time I've been proud of.

[dubenezic92]

Just be thanful Corzine is not the Gov. Ugh.

[docmalthus]

Gov. Christie to USA: "I WANNA BE YOUR VICE-PRESIDENT!"

USA to Gov. Christie: "AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN, LARDASS!"

[bkl139]

Hopefully Christie runs for President one day. Seems like a pretty decent guy. Hell of a lot better than what we have had with Bush and Obama.

[LedWhisky69]

@EliteKiller07 The principle is not NEARLY the same. You seem to completely and utterly ignore just how addictive and destructive most street drugs are. How you could even begin to compare the effects of alcohol to the likes of meth or coke is beyond belief to me. Alcohol can and is used in moderation and without ill consequences. The same cannot be said for hard street drugs. Lest we forget ALSO that alcohol is STILL highly regulated. Legal to use ONLY in certain circumstances.

[LedWhisky69]

@EliteKiller07 Lying? No. These are the stats that I've read from Portugual 2001 to 2007: Lifetime use of illicit drugs increased from 7.8% to 12%, lifetime use of cannabis increased from 7.6% to 11.7%, cocaine from 0.9% to 1.9%, ecstasy from 0.7% to 1.3%, and heroin from 0.7% to 1.1%. That comes from Portuguese Focal Point report (2008 data) to the EMCDDA. This isn't staggering, by any means, but it didn't nearly have the effect that you are trying to claim here.

[EliteKiller07]

@LedWhisky69

Well, it looks like you're just lying to me, then. Drug use dropped by half after 10 years of decriminalization in Portugal. (goo(dot)gl/OHdCZ). We have more drug users per-capita in America than there is in Portugal or Holland.

Again, i would say stop going with your intuition and look at the empirical data. When drugs are illegal, usage is higher and there is more violence and gangs that benefit from it. If you really want to help society, it's better for it to be legal.

[EliteKiller07]

@LedWhisky69

The principle is still the same: Alcoholics break apart families, and lose productivity with jobs. Should we put alcoholics in prison for 10 years, or should we put them in rehab?

You can make it illegal to sell, but that doesn't get rid of the demand, which is why black-markets emerge with gangs. Violence, specifically on the borders and in the cities, are a direct result of the illegality of drugs.  Just like when alcohol was illegal, murder rates spiked due to the mobs.

[LedWhisky69]

@EliteKiller07 Your statistics on Portugal and Holland also seem to be suspect. I've done my own research into this matter and I did NOT see a reduction in drug use as a result of their drug policies, but at best there was no increase and at worst, drug use went up, not down. Prohibition didn't work here in the USA because alcohol is too well incorporated into our lifestyles and harmless when used moderately, as many people do. The same is NOT true for hard street drugs.

[LedWhisky69]

@EliteKiller07 Comeon, man. Are you really serious here? Illegal drug use, abuse, and addiction is a victimless crime? Usually, people who speak such nonsense are totally naive to the impact that these drugs have and how exactly we arrived at where we are now with them being made illegal. They destroy the user, dealers are practically engaging in manslaughter, families ripped apart, lost productivity and jobs lost entirely which puts a huge burden on tax payers. You can't possibly be serious.

[EliteKiller07]

@LedWhisky69

But there is is a firm difference between Murder and doing drugs. Murder, by definition, always involves a victim; Doing drugs however is a victimless crime. And if there IS a victim involved, you deal with them just like you deal with someone who is a victim of an abusive alcoholic.

When Portugal and Holland legalized/decriminalized drugs, drug use went DOWN. Would you argue prohibition worked?

Stop thinking about this issue symbolically and start thinking rationally.

[arceuseragon]

What's the music in this clip?