Misuse of legal drugs, especially alcohol and tobacco, cause many more problems than the illegal ones do. Despite the fact that the concept behind prohibition is suspect at best and rotten at worst, we are forced to continue with no end in sight after decades of this mess. Just need to make a few more adjustments, we are told. Like our war on poverty, and whatever other wars the government tells us we must fight, the outcome is always the same. Failures abound, and instead of cutting our losses and moving on, we commit even more resources and experience even more failure.
Victory is just around the corner, with just a few more dead bodies.
I pay close attention to hospital expansion within our state because it is one of the biggest causes of our rising health care costs. Many times, I drive by West Allis Memorial's expansion and wonder who is paying for all of the booming construction at all of the health care facilities within southeastern Wisconsin. I know the City of West Allis must be sharing some of the hospital expansion costs, if only on infrastructure costs related to the roads in and around the facility. Cohen is an interesting columnist. Usually quite predictable in his support of abortion rights, he occasionally admits to his qualms and raises questions that we need to consider.