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[xxrancid-punkxx.livejournal.com]

I'm literally shaking my fist at the computer after reading that. We have all this bullshit outrage, all these people screaming about spending money on health care and a public option. Yet we spend 175 million or more to kill "weeds"? Seriously?

Instead of wasting time whining about money "wasted" on a public option people should be up in arms over the 175 million truly WASTED on spraying Roundup on a naturally growing plant and the other BILLIONS spent each year on police, the court system and incarceration of people guilty of nothing.

[deadpansev.livejournal.com]

I found where I got that figure from and that 175 million was 2 years ago, who knows what it is now. I know that recently at the arsenal cleanup (in Denver) they found some ditch weed growing and it was reported by the press and the Army officer in charge said they were going to burn it, so this is still going on to some extent.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/467/DEA_spent_175_million_to_eradicate_ditch_weed_hemp

Although I am against any government intervention in health care. I agree with you that people should be more upset at the government for wasting money on the drug war than wasting money on health care, or welfare or any of that kind of stuff.

[deadpansev.livejournal.com]

Also I would laugh at the lame attempts to eradicate the weed, but never did I laugh at the costs incurred during the process. I can hire a kid to pull weeds for $5 an hour, I don't need some cop being paid overtime to do it.