onlooker wrote:Yeah, also in South America I heard it has gotten real bad. Even in a rural province in the Philippines where my wife comes from it has now become a problem. Oh and you are cool in my book 6.
Thanks, onlooker
. I'm just being an archie bunker. Seeing changes happening and I don't like it, and I'm old enough to know that things used to be different. That affects a person, if they've stayed in one area for 20 years, and they literally see the changes with their own eyes. It's not theoretical at that point, it's local.
This meth is a big problem in my area. My dental assistant friend has been telling me about it for a couple years now, she knows what she's talking about, the number of patients is up. Parents bringing in a 20 year old that looks 40 or 50 and their teeth are black and rotted from the meth. It's unreal. So they extract, and can do dentures or, these days, they do implants now (much more expensive).
So then you've got a 20 year kid with false teeth but physically they are wrecked forever (assuming they even stay off the meth for good), it's freaky stuff, someone aged 20 years in a year.
And then, I read my local paper, and I just hear about this issue, and I see the poverty in my town and I see people that are "drug people" on the streets. And yeah I like Sanders but no, I don't like this drug problem either.
Now if somebody lives in Vermont or Oregon and everything is beautiful then I guess they don't think there's a meth or heroin problem in America, and the government could slack off going after dealers and drug runners.
It's the same about the border. People in Vermont and Washington State share a border with Canada, so what do they know about / or care about what's going on with the southern border.
Things aren't a problem with people, until it reaches THEIR town. Like illegal immigration, or meth.
Back to Bernie, I don't like that it sounds as if he'd probably have weaker drug enforcement, but otherwise it was a good speech. This part on min wage was good:
[in fairness, I suspect that reducing poverty and there being more jobs would naturally improve the drug problem, poverty and crack / meth go hand in hand. Regardless though, government must always fight these hard drugs, or it would get as bad as the opium dens in old China and can shut a whole country down]
He was good on Wall st, and the banks: