Pubdate: Thu, 22 Sep 2011
Source: Nanaimo News Bulletin (CN BC)
Copyright: 2011, BC Newspaper Group
Contact:  http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/948
Page: 9
Author: J. Sharpe

FREEBIES FOR ADDICTS WASTES TAX DOLLARS

To the Editor,

Re: City's social problems getting shuffled, Letters, Sept. 20.

Susan Knight hit it right on the head. We are constantly barraged by 
the need to provide homes, medical treatment, free needle exchanges 
and food for the drug addicts who must, of necessity, use any money 
they can get to support their habits.

And to think they get this money legally is ludicrous.

Without mandatory treatment and a zero tolerance for drug use, no one 
should get this freebie.

Unfortunately, there is a thriving industry in supporting these 
addicts, using tax dollars, I might add.

The agencies that promote continued drug-addict support don't want to 
put themselves out of a job.

This might seem cynical, but when the number of agencies and people 
in the social support network using tax dollars, which pay rents, 
salaries, promotional costs and other expenses, to help people act 
illegally and completely irresponsibly, is a crime.

Let's enforce the laws we have.

J. Sharpe

Nanaimo
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