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I have a better idea - Pay them $3 billion dollars to grow crops that ensure food security, and let them sell it for whatever they can get. Or, while we're spi
by ghshephard 12y ago
I have a better idea - Pay them $3 billion dollars to grow crops that ensure food security, and let them sell it for whatever they can get. Or, while we're spitballing - how about pay them $3 Billion to go to school, build roads, irrigation systems, etc...
- maxmcd 12y agoWhat's the difference? The only difference between a $3bil drug purchase and a $3bil crop/infrastructure stimulus is that one assumes you can control spending. Why wouldn't heavily funded drug dealers reinvest in their community? Or, how would crop/infrastructure funding not directly support the drug industry?
- azernik 12y agoCrop funding is favored by policy wonks because it competes for the same inputs that drug production requires (namely, agricultural land and labor).
- ghshephard 12y agoThe difference would be, that in addition to getting $3bil, they would also have peripheral local benefits - Food Security from the plentiful crops.