Because Eastern countries aren't like that?

Many garbage eastern countries are also puppets to western rulers... they see countries as farms and people as cattle. The object of the game is to make as much capital as possible without breaking the system.

Why don't you grow some balls and move to Iran? There you can turn into a woman and marry the man of your dreams.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690

I have to bank my money first... cant go there as a beggar and expect to marry up to 4 wives.
In Iran, the government works with the people to own a home... where as western ideals are to systematically drug and bankrupt people before their engineered early death.. as Henry Kissinger puts it... https://i.imgur.com/FApWOrV.jpg

Irans Mehr Housing project; short video clip (free land and loans for millions)
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/...using-project-

edit only $6000 for an apartment.

Meanwhile in Seattle and Vancouver things will never change... peasants will always be running the rat race so they can afford to live under a roof on stolen Native America land.

He never wrote that. Show me what page that quote is on to prove me wrong.

https://spectatorblogs.imgix.net/fil...op&w=620&h=413

I am sure you can sell your cardboard body kit cars there and afford to live there.

Yes they should just give them more tax dollars and let them fix the problem.
Even the construction workers knew better than that.:chairdance:

He was supposedly overheard saying that but Kissinger ran in those kind of circles... the policies are pretty evident from the past to present. Watch the documentary of cut, burn and poison, and you see that they are whole slaughtering millions with unnecessary Chemo treatment.

Only upto the 70's did the US stop forced sterilizations... Im sure many people in Seattle and Vancouver would fit the criteria of criminality and alcoholism which is system engineered addiction and being poor.

btw Bush had nominated Kissinger as head of 9/11 taskforce.
youtube.com/watch?v=ORIU7vPiiV4


Im sure too, but I cant just go there broke and start carving out kits without a CNC machine and workshop.

Riiiiight, cause that's EXACTLY what I said, right?

When in my post did I state that more tax dollars should be collected for this issue?

You do realize that allotting the police more powers to arrest, and detain drug addicts in jail, also costs huge tax dollars? Based on your logic, that would also be a further appropriation of tax dollars to the problem.

What I've been saying is that American law enforcement and the DEA need to take a fundamental look at how they view the war on drugs. It simply isn't working, and is a massive waste of money.

Instead of vilifying a drug user, as this documentary does, why not appropriate dollars in a better way to rehabilitate these people? This ridiculous no tax, libertarian mentality does not work, plain and simple. I've traveled through the States and I see the same thing in their major cities, abject poverty of the likes one would see in third world countries.

You simply do not see the same level of poverty in major cities within Canada due to our social safety net. Yes we pay more taxes, but I would much prefer a safer and more ethical society than the likes I see in a lot of these American cities, it's damn depressing. I always feel a sense of unease in Seattle whenever I enter that city, I find myself wanting to get the fuck out of there as soon as I can. I can't explain it, the city has a bad energy, it just feels sad.

Many of these people on the street, you don't know their stories. Any one of us can end up in the same predicament as them, working in corrections taught me that from my dealings with some of these folks. One bad decision, one major bump in life can easily result you in such circumstances.

We are all connected as human beings in this society, learn to carry some more compassion for these people, and better yourself as a person.

On a side note, we were at Calabash last night for drinks and dancing, and inevitably I ended up walking the DTES looking for a damn cab home @ 2 AM for about 40 minutes. As usual, I never felt any sense of danger on unease from the people around me. I would definitely not feel that same way walking areas of Seattle at night.

If the price on that means more taxes, I'll take it.

Finding a solution that costs money is always just "throwing tax dollars" at something according to anyone that doesn't believe or acknowledge that the solution proposed could work.
It seems the common thread between people with no empathy for people with addictions either
A) Have never had a real meaningful interaction with anyone with that issue.
B) Overcome that issue themselves and have the "If I can do it why can't they" attitude.
Some people will just never have the interest in putting in the effort to understanding someone else problems unfortunately, and will just go on considering those around them who don't benefit them a burden.

Of course those that are willing to throw money at the problem are rarely the ones that are paying 40+% taxes either. Go figure.
I'm all for the Portugal model.