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From: gabor@qantel.UUCP (Gabor Fencsik@ex2642)
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Subject: Re: Drug Abuse - True Problem or Media Hype?
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 22:17:15 EDT
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The truly bizarre thing about the Reagan administration going berserk over
the drug issue is that the drug trade is, on the whole, an instance of the 
type of economic activity that all good Reaganites should approve of.  We have
cut income transfer payments from the middle class to the ghettos and from the 
rich nations to the Third World on the assumption that private initiative is 
going to deliver the goods,  amply replacing the lost welfare and foreign aid.
And this is precisely what happened: the drug trade is transferring tens
of billions from the suburbs to the inner cities and from the North to the
barrios in South America.   It's all private initiative, marketing savvy,
inventiveness and risk-taking -- so what's the problem?   Since we made the
Thirld World into a net exporter of capital to the U.S.  [their interest 
payments to international banks are exceeding new loans by something like 
30 billion per year] - all that money has got to come from somewhere, no?

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Gabor Fencsik                  {ihnp4,dual,lll-crg,hplabs}!qantel!gabor