The most important war should be at US border
It has been written in The Press and many other newspapers that here in America, there are nearly 300 people a day, every day, including Saturdays and Sundays, that are dying from an overdose of heroin or another drug laced with fentanyl. And based upon government reports, those drugs are making their way into America from the cartels whose business is solely selling drugs and murder.
So let's do very simple math here:
365 days in a year x 300 people dying from an overdose = 109,500 overdose deaths.
I believe everyone reading this knows of someone who tragically overdosed or may even have a close family member or close friend.
Now, let's rewind the camera back to Sept. 11, 2001.
Nearly 3,000 were killed from the terrorist attack that hit NYC and the Pentagon plus the one jet that crashed in Pennsylvania. We responded by going to war against terrorism, Sadam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and some other high value targets.
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Yet 109,500 people a year are poisoned with dope, which is obviously a weapon of mass destruction and we don't go to war and take down all these drug cartels.
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Because drugs from the cartels, as I see it, are a weapon of mass destruction. It's no different from the so-called stockpile of sarin nerve gas that Saddam Hussein supposedly had, and we went to war to fight their war. Yet a weapon of mass destruction killing our youth here in America and we don't fight the enemy within our own country.
So a silent war without noise or bombs and 109,500 die each year and this has been going on for decades. I don't know the death count, but it is in the millions.
As we try to fix the world's problems with their wars, let's begin with our own home front and end the war here in America.
The cartels are no match against our military, yet it seems we are just standing by and only taking inventory of the dead. There are even large poppy farms just across the border within a couple of miles in Mexico that are being grown by the cartels, and we sit back and just watch it grow, ultimately coming across our porous border, to continue poisoning our American people.
As the cartels are making hundreds of billions of dollars, you may want to stop for a moment to ask the question, just what are they doing with this money? Well, quite a bit makes it into New York on Wall Street in stocks. Is this the reason why America is silent on the deaths of 109,500 annually, and growing? We have heard a few times about the war on drugs. However, what is happening here is that there is a war on the American people, mainly our youth, who are dying at the hands of the cartels, and our government's willful and purposeful inability to stop the cartels. How many more tens of thousands of our Americans will have to die while money is invested into Wall Street?
Congress is the authority that declares war. It is long overdue we fix America's problems and our borders, which is how drugs are getting here. America has been fixing border issues worldwide for many years. Let's fix our problems and borders first!
Joe Venezia
Estell Manor
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Hybrid vehicles a sensible alternative
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Michael Maggio
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