Pelosi Imitating Someone Who Cares About Costs: Cheaper to Treat Teens for Drug Abuse Than to Secure Nation’s Borders (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 7, 2010
SanFranNan is suddenly becoming frugal. Apparently, it’s cheaper to treat America’s teens for drug abuse than it is to secure our nation’s borders and prevent violent, illegal aliens who are bringing billions of dollars worth of illegal drugs into our country and into our elementary and high schools.
Pelosi claims, “And it costs 25 times more with eradication of the coca leaf.” What does that gobbledygook mean, exactly? Coca or cocoa leaves?
Is Pelosi suggesting that, instead of Team Obama doing what is necessary to seal and protect the US borders, we should eliminate all coca plants in Central and South America because it’s somehow “cheaper”? I’m not sure from what black hole Pelosi pulled that “25 times more” statistic. More than WHAT? More than D.A.R.E. programs or anti-drug public service announcements? And what does that have to do with the federal government actually doing something more than just talk and proactively sealing up the unsecured southern borders to keep Mexican drug runners out?
Crikey, the liberal doublespeak from this woman gives me a headache.
Here’s the video (is it just me, or do FOUR American flags behind Pelosi seem to be desperate overkill?) — the report from CSN News is below.
Nancy Pelosi: It’s Cheaper to Treat Teens for Drug Use Than Interdict Drugs at Border
Just for grins, since Nancy suddenly is pretending to care about how much things cost to American taxpayers, we should just toss that government-run ObamaCare down the crapper. It would be much cheaper, a thousand-fold, to let Americans be responsible for their own health care insurance than to be saddled with the trillion-dollar cost that turkey is going to cost the next few generations.
And let’s chop the salaries of members of Congress while we’re at it. That, too, would be cheaper for America in the long run.
From CSN News, Pelosi: It’s Cheaper to Treat Teens for Drug Use Than Interdict Drugs at Border:
(CNSNews.com) – While pointing out that it is the responsibility of the federal government to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said Thursday it is cheaper to treat teens for drug use than it is to interdict drugs being smuggled across the border.
CNSNews.com pointed out to the speaker at her weekly press briefing that a recent Justice Department report indicated that one in five U.S. teenagers used drugs last year, and then asked: “Are you committed to sealing the border against the influx of illegal drugs from Mexico and, if so, do you have a target date in mind for getting that done?”
“Well if your question is about drugs, I’m for reducing demand in the United States,” said Pelosi. “That is what our responsibility is on this subject. The RAND Corporation a few years ago did a report that said it would be much less expensive for us to, through prevention first and foremost, but through treatment on demand to reduce demand in our country, is the cheapest way to solve this problem.
“Incarceration is the next cheapest,” Pelosi continued. “It costs seven times more to incarcerate than to have treatment on demand. It costs 15 times more to interdict at the border. And it costs 25 times more with eradication of the cocoa leaf. This is an issue that it is very important to our country because of what it’s doing to our teenagers. That is the problem, what it is doing to our people.”
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Pelosi did say it was the responsibility of the federal government to control the border, although she did not believe that would prevent illicit drug use by teens in the United States.
“Controlling our border is our responsibility,” she said. “So, whether you’re talking about stopping drugs from coming in or having a well-managed migration policy, we have a responsibility to secure our border. But I don’t know what you meant by ‘seal’ and I think sealing the border doesn’t do a whole lot to reduce demand in the United States. As I travel the country, I know that kids are on meth and they can make it in their bath tub.”
Amazing. She KNOWS that kids are making meth in their bath tubs because she travels the country. I don’t know any of these kids, but Nancy says she does. Silly me — I honestly thought methamphetamine production was primarily the work of sleazoid, criminal adults, many of whom are illegal aliens who had no problem entering the United States undetected, but apparently, there are kids across America hijacking the family bath tub so as to cook up meth. “Mommy, please don’t take a bubble bath, I’m still making meth.” OH, YES, NANCY KNOWS…
CNS News continues in its report…
To solve the drug problem, she said, requires reducing demand. “Let’s secure our border for every reason that we have responsibility to do so,” she said, “but if it’s talk, if our purpose is to solve that problem, we must reduce demand and the best way to do that is through prevention and through treatment on demand.”
Last week, CNSNews.com similarly asked Rep. Raul Grijalva (D.-Ariz.), who represents a district that covers 300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, if he was committed to sealing the border against the inflow of illegal drugs. Rather than answer the question, Grijalva turned and walked away, eventually shouting back at the reporter that it was “punkish” to ask the question.
Lest we should forget, here are a sample of previous posts about Team Obama’s travesties in providing national security… I fear what is going to happen at our southern borders since it is obvious that securing them is not a Pelosi/Obama priority (despite the lip service they give):
Government Waste at Homeland Security: Three Computers Lost Each Day… Plus a Truck
Additional reading:
Manuel Ballagas, The Americano: A Different Approach to Immigration Reform
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Good Grief: California DMV Employees Arrested for Selling Fake IDs, Licenses, & Car Titles to Illegal Aliens and American Flag Banned at California School… Students Sent Home for Wearing US Flag T-Shirts on Cinco de Mayo — UPDATE: Video added and Happy Cinco de Mayo: Mexico Students Crossed Border Daily to Attend AZ School in Ajo, State Funding Provided Illegally and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon Teams Up with Rev. Sharpton to Protest SB1070, Only 25% of Americans Support Illegal Alien Protesters, Majority of Americans Still Favor AZ Illegal Immigration Law and FOX News: AZ Governor Jan Brewer Interview on Controversial Illegal Immigration Law (video) and Ann Coulter on AZ Illegal Immigration Law: Liberals Are Hysterical & Lying About Contents of Law (video) and Obama’s Ice Cream Lie & Limbaugh on AZ Illegal Immigration Law: Op-Ed Educates Clueless Bush Speechwriter Michael Gerson for Lame WaPo Piece… What America Is He Living In? and New Dawn in America: Radio Host Michael Savage Explodes over Illegal Immigration, Obama, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) (video) and Grandstanding, Cali-Style: San Francisco Mayor Bans City Workers from AZ for Illegal Immigration Law… SFGate Readers Weigh In and Mexico’s Drug-Related Murders & Kidnappings Continue to Grow… People Kidnapped at Holiday Inn in Monterrey, Obama Criticizes AZ Illegal Immigration Bill (video) and Huge Raids on Mexican Human Smuggling in Arizona & Tough New Illegal Immigration Law — Avenge Robert Krentz’ Murder (video)
Another Black Conservative: Democrat Hypocrisy: Show Me Your Papers – The National Edition
Zach Lahn, Big Government: AZ Immigration Facts and the Left’s New Hate of Affirmative Action
Pundit & Pundette: Now, if the kids had wanted to burn the flag . . .
Roger Noriega, The Americano: Understanding Arizona
Founding Bloggers: An Apology? How About Civil Rights Violation Charges? and Progressive Supporters Of Human Smuggling Turn Violent In California
Gateway Pundit: Prominent Race-Hustler Activist Joins Phoenix Los Soles Suns Cause and 59% of Americans Still Favor Arizona’s Immigration Legislation and VIOLENT LEFTISTS WIELDING TORCHES Riot, Smash Windows, Burn a Coffee House After Immigration Protest… Media Silent and Immigrants Carry “Death to US Imperial-Fascists” At NYC May Day Rally… Media Silent and Patriot Groups Will Kickoff National Arizona BUYcott at Winning Back America Conference and AZ Governor Brewer’s Popularity Soars After Signing Immigration Bill and Immigration Protesters Threaten Police at Arizona Rally… Media Silent and Photographer Assaulted By Leftist Immigration Protest Organizer in Arizona (Video) and Al Sharpton & Leftist Leaders Compare Arizona Immigration Law to Apartheid, Nazi Germany and Jim Crow (Video)
Nice Deb: Patriotic Tee-Shirts Deemed “Incendiary” On Cinco De Mayo At CA High School and Can We All Agree That There’s Nothing More Nazi Than Saying ‘Show Me Your Papers’? and “Mostly Peaceful” May Day Rally In SF Turns Violent As Pro-Illegal Immigrant Protesters Attack And Injure Minutemen
Michelle Malkin: Whose country is it, anyway? and Cleaning up our trashed border and Update on Arizona rancher Robert Krentz murder case and Arizona acts to restore immigration sanity, open-borders lobby up in arms
DaTechguy’s Blog: Boy would I love to be a lawyer near Live Oak High School
Sisu: Cinco de Mayo for idiots: It’s the Mexican beer, stupid!
Pirate’s Cove: Wear An American Flag To School On Cinco De Mayo? That’s A Kicking Off Campus
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The good thing about this is, is the fact that she constantly feels she has to remind us of her stupidity.
Pelosi is evil. Why do people keep voting for her?