This is how deficits happen

If we want to help eliminate the federal budget deficit and make a liberal down payment against the national debt, we can start by ending the failed War on Drugs - which has made criminals of even the most sober Americans and has propped up violent drug gangs.

And it's cost the taxpayers dearly. The wasteful practices of the town of Eaton, Ohio, could be a microcosm for what goes on nationally.

Recently, Eaton police spent taxpayer dough producing and posting wanted posters at pharmacies of people who allegedly purchased too much allergy drugs. Keep in mind that there wasn't even a limit on how much you could buy until the drug lord Bush and his minions in various state legislatures passed laws on this. (In 2006, the Bush regime also required Alka-Seltzer Cold to remove pseudoephedrine - in the name of fighting drugs. Many consumers report that this has made the product ineffective.) The police department has also vowed to post these wanted posters on its website and Facebook page.

Since laws went into effect limiting how much allergy medicine you could buy, meth labs have increased exponentially. Gee, never saw that coming!

In short, no real laws were broken by the people on the posters, but the city is spending resources going after them. I've seen no evidence that any of these alleged scofflaws have any connection with meth.

Methamphetamine is deadly business. Nobody wants a single molecule of this stupid poison polluting their community. Nobody, that is, except the drug warriors. Clearly, they like forcing us to be around the stuff, since they keep backing laws that only intensify this scourge.

All this from "small government" conservatives.

If the Super Congress that was formed to cut the deficit wants to be taken seriously, it should defund the failed drug war. The War on Drugs ranks right up there in wastefulness with the Bush border fence and the ongoing abuses by the Department of Homeland Security.

(Source: http://www.registerherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=129742)