Liberty Pen: John Stossel-Ann Coulter- War On Drugs Debate

Source:Liberty Pen- right-wing loudmouth Ann Coulter debating John Stossel on the so-called War On Drugs.

"After 40 years of futility, John Stossel wants to end the Drug War.  Ann Coulter does not.  A discussion of individual liberty ensues. Liberty Pen." 

Source:Liberty Pen

I hate to say this, because I see Ann Coulter as a sometimes crazy, but other times as a nasty, intolerant, person, who can barely stand the presence of being in the same room, as anyone who disagrees with her on anything (sort of like a fascist) but she actually makes a good point (for a change) about the War On Drugs. 

Don't get me wrong, I think she's not dead wrong, but definitely wrong about the War On Drugs. But arguing that we wouldn't need the War On Drugs, if we didn't have a welfare state (or as I call safety net) and forced to subsidized others bad decisions in life. My counterpoint is that we don't need the War On Drugs at all, because it's a complete failure and waste of hard-woking, taxpayer dollars, that the Ann Coulter's of the world say they care about. 

Anytime you punish someone for something that they do to themselves (which is what a big part of the War On Drugs is) you meaning the government becomes responsible for the welfare of that individual. Which costs a lot of money. It takes $50,000 dollars a year to house and take care of the average Federal prison inmate. So we end up being stuck with a safety net (as I prefer to call it) that we can't afford, on top of this so-called War On Drugs that we can't afford either. And that's just the taxpayer costs. 

Most people who are in prison for simple illegal drug usage or possession, gets out of prison while they're still fairly young, but but now they can't get themselves a decent job, because they have this felony convection on their records. Even though they were only convicted of illegal drug possession or usage and represent no actual threat to any innocent person and they're still addicted to illegal narcotics, because the only thing they got in prison was they're lost of freedom. And they become wards of the welfare state (or safety net) that taxpayers have to pay for. 

I mean, you can't be a fiscal conservative and be a fan of the War On Drugs, since the War On Drugs is a waste of tax dollars.