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Corruption in Mexico | WTF?

Mexico, where would we be without you? We’d probably be free of disease, have less of a drug problem, and we’d have about 761,610 square miles of inhabitable land. All jokes aside about conquest, the most recent President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, launched a war on drug cartels and corruption in general. In Tijuana and also Ciudad Juárez, the army ordered that all local police officers surrender their weapons, as it is suspected that many officers have ties with drug cartels. This move definitely stepped on enough toes to generate a war zone in these major border cities.

This blog has a suggestion for Felipe, from one world leader to another. How about focusing on your northern border control issues? If you stop the revenue source of the cartels, will you not eventually send them into a fiscal and emotional depression? What do you think? How would you subdue over a century of corruption if you were in charge?

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Non-Violent Crime Stimulates Economy? | Reader Poll

Recently, Barack Obama held one of his many public forums on his ‘Main Street’ tour. This was no different from any other meeting; however, a “bold” college student offered a thought provoking statement.

Maybe, if you checked out some of the statistics about legalizing prostitution, gambling, drugs and non-violent crime in order to stimulate some of the economy.

I don’t understand why his question was met with such giddy excitement as if his entire premise was comical. There is significant research available that bolster either side of this issue. There are some who say the amount of people sent to prison and the money spent keeping them there are a complete waste of time and resources. Others condemn crimes such as gambling and prostitution because they move us all closer to moral decay.

Maybe he’s on to something, perhaps it is time that our government examines the benefits and repercussions in a national context.

On this site it’s up to You, so readers should Non-Violent Crimes be re-examined in the hopes of generating revenue and turning the country around?

Should America look into altering policy about Non-Violent Crime?

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Wherever there is a demand for a product or service, a market will naturally arise. Is it really the government’s business to do anything more than regulate it for safety?

-Sam Verhasselt

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