August 1, 2011 - 12:15 pm
New research was published recently by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
For residents age 26 or older, Washington D.C. has the highest rate of:
- Alcohol dependence or abuse in past year. (Table B16)
- Illicit drug dependence or abuse in past year. (Table B18)
- Needing but not receiving treatment for illicit drug use in past year. (Table B21)
- Needing but not receiving treatment for alcohol use in past year. (Table B23)
Since Congress and the President are all over age 25, the picture begins to clarify. There are similarities between alcoholism/drug addiction and political malfeasance.
- Craving–A strong need, or urge, to drink. D.C. prostiticians have a strong urge to spend more of our hard-earned money.
- Loss of control–Not being able to stop drinking once drinking has begun. Have they ever seen a spending bill they didn’t like? What about an opportunity to carve away at the Bill of Rights?
- Physical dependence–Withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety after stopping drinking. Recent news gave wall-to-wall coverage of doom and gloom prognostications if we don’t borrow more money.
- Tolerance–The need to drink greater amounts of alcohol to get “high.” Raise the debt ceiling, anyone?
These people don’t need reelection; they need treatment.
Does that make voters enablers?
Now you’re getting it. They only represent our group consciousness. If we keep voting for ‘rock stars’, we’ll get users.
Here is a commercial that brings it full circle
http://youtu.be/itxfB3dN7ps
and a video that shows why spending cuts really are “quite horrifying”
http://youtu.be/J7XA2UUpXRk
As a former sailor – U.S. Navy – I’d like to borrow from Ronald Reagan: We drunken sailors spend our own money.
["We drunken sailors spend our own money."]
Ooooppps! What do they do with the taxpayers money they get paid? Send it back?
silly boy. it’s theirs – as you say, they got paid. If money is always the taxpayers, then you’re a liberal.
Oh, okay! Then folks shouldn’t be getting so upset with all the government employees “spending their own money” once the taxpayers pay them.
Nice dodge. If we’re talking about them spending our tax dollars on special favors to their corporate sponsors, that’s bad.
If we’re talking about how much money they make doing nothing but figuring out ways to harass taxpayers, that’s bad, too. They deserve to be unemployed, as opposed to special handouts for doing nothing while pretending they’re contributing to production.
So I guess you have no point to make, except for the minority of government employees who actually do something, like many military (usually not Pentagon officers who are politicians in drag) and most police officers and firemen.
Otherwise, it’s not their money. Unless, of course, you are a liberal who believes that all money belongs to government and we’re lucky they let us keep some of what we earned, courtesy of the benevolent dictatorship of feudalism.
As a recovering, non-naval GI I’d just like to point out, in fairness, that sloshed swabbies generally only spend their own dough.
Nice. So who’s money do drunken prostiticians spend?
As a proud ex- coastie (USCG) I’m happy to say we not only got drunk on our own money, we worked our butts off all day before we hit the beach. None of that sitting around chipping paint and waiting to kill people. Working, drinking and ________ .
As the proud father of a mustang Navy officer, I resent sailors being compared to politicians. Sailors are serving our country. Politicians are serving themselves and their cronies.
Then why did we elect them?
we’re changing that – are you?
If you need to ask that question, you haven’t been reading my posts here and at the PJM front page.
My grandfather–a WWI(Navy) and WWII (USCG) vet, and captain of Great Lakes carriers–spent only the money my grandmother gave him
I’ve wondered how stoned you had to be to pass some of those regulations…