Water is pouring through a hole, but the only question NH’s Democrat congressional delegation has is when can we get more money for bigger umbrellas and more boots?
Related: Obama, Democrats, and DACA Created the Opioid Crisis
That’s my comparison to the Left’s approach to the opioid crisis. A manufactured problem created by Democrat policy. DACA and open borders released a flood gate that allowed drugs and gangs easy access to our kids and families. Sanctuary cities and states allow them room to operate.
The Left’s response is hey, we bet there is a government agency we can grow to address the addiction thing.
Don’t try to stop the problem at its source, just treat the symptoms. Sure, lives will be ruined, and people will die. Public safety services will be stressed and a few of them might be harmed along the way. But look, more government grants to feed the institutional beast that rose in response. Forever!
Jim Carroll, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, has 40 billion at his disposal. None of it to build a wall at the border. Democrats refuse to give even a fraction of that sum to the project. They then take the Trump administration to court to prevent the government from expanding border barriers that would slow the flow of drugs with other unused money.
Don’t expand the wall, expand the state instead!
During his third visit to New Hampshire, Carroll said he is responsible for overseeing $40 billion aimed to address the drug epidemic throughout the nation. …
“We are not spending enough money. If we are going to save more lives … it is going to be an investment,” he said, adding the focus must not only be on treatment, but also on prevention efforts.
Just not a wall.
Rep. Annie Kuster, D-NH, agreed, saying New Hampshire needs more recovery housing. As access to treatment is increased, she said trained individuals such as social workers are necessary to help address the issue, which is often a lifelong treatment and recovery process.
Kuster opposes a border wall funding that might allow us to sunset the need for more of all these things she is anxious to fund. Money better spent elsewhere if we attack the problem instead of growing government as if the latter were the goal.
Sen. Maggie Hassan said the opioid problem has a ripple effect on local families, businesses and communities. “There are no silos in this crisis, and we need to do everything we can to move forward,” said Hassan. “ … But we need more resources and there is more work to do.”
We need a wall so that we can begin to see an end to the ripple effect that Obama’s DACA order and left open borders policy have created. They, of course, oppose this. Democrats want more government, bigger budgets, more power, and a mostly partisan mental health machine.
Yes, we need to treat the problem they created, but if we don’t work on prevention at the border people will continue to get poisoned and the government will grow bigger, always pretending it means well for people when all it’s really after is more government.
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