The Philadelphia Daily News piece, Philly’s drug dealers: Younger all the time AS DEADLY YEAR NEARS THE END, A LOOK AT 2 OF THE HUNDREDS OF TEENS WHO SELL DOPE bemoans how children in the drug trade are getting ever younger. As if this should be some kind of surprise. Why not? After all, the drug black market exists due to the same economic social engineering policy that the alcohol prohibition was based on in the Roaring Twenties of the last century. A big part of why America ended the alcohol prohibition was because of how it corrupted children.
The drug black market is all economics and America’s politicians are STUPID! The Democrats and Republicans all think that they can deprive children of all other opportunity while at the same time demanding that those children not use their God given initiative to work and make money.
The city of Philadelphia has a $ 700 million economy that under-employed and under-educated young people are told to stay away from……
that’s a good way of making the point. How do you convince people to leave money on the table?
I don’t underswtand your question.
Physically, drugs are very low cost materials. The risk markup is most of the cost. A risk markup protected with guns as the self-regulation tool of choice.
Put the sale of drugs into the hands of regulated licensed responsible businesses and that risk markup no longer comes out of the collective community economy as crime costs. Some experts say that 70% of all crime is drug related. Reduced crime means reduced crime victimization costs. Reduced prosecution costs. All of that money comes to the table to better the community when today it is leaving the community and leaving it behind in ever greater destitution.
Philadelphia’s crime/drug problem is a symptom of a greater problem. If you think the problem is bad this year just wait for next year. There is a tsunami of Afghan heroin washing up on our shores at this minute. It is going to wash through our cities with more devastation than American cities have ever seen. Our cities are the new battleground in the war on terror with poor people the cannon fodder.