But that's just the tip of the iceberg. The half-a-billion dollars for
housing assistance for drug addicts is just a tiny piece of the pie. While
WhiteHouse.gov claims "the Obama Administration has committed over $10 billion
[to] drug education programs and support for expanding access to drug treatment for
addicts,"
CNSNews.com is reporting that Obama is actually requesting a grand total
of $25.6 billion this coming year for the National Drug Control Policy budget."
The stated goal of the funding is to “reduce drug use and its consequences in
the United States.” Exactly how that goal will be realized, like most everything
else the federal government funds, is difficult to determine; but we can only
hope, since it appears that money will not go directly to the "recipients" but
be doled out as grants to those who are willing to provide the housing, that
Tony Rezko will be barred from the program.
After all, the only thing worse than giving homeless drug addicts a place to
live is forcing them to live in substandard conditions under slumlords who grow
rich, courtesy of Uncle Sugar, for providing the slums. You can
read the rest at CNSNews.com.
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