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no i can dig that aspect...but the War on Drugs is still on and is the one that could put my ass and my friends ass' away for a plant...Right now you have to have some connection to Afghanistan to end up in Guantamano. i can get popped on Rt 95 coming back from my buddies house with a quarter.

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Okay, I see. Here in Cascadia, the War on Drugs is on the back-burner (unless it's meth).

And don't forget the War on Poverty:

"The number of Americans living in poverty has risen each year Bush has been president, increasing to 37 million in 2004 from 31.6 million in 2000. Overall, 12.7 percent of the nation's population lives in poverty, which for a family of four means an income less than $20,000 a year.

The increases in poverty come after years of decline in the 1990s, which analysts say was largely fostered by a booming economy and revolutionary changes in the welfare system, which required many recipients to go to work, slashing relief rolls by nearly 60 percent. In addition, wider use of the earned income tax credit and other measures to help people in low-paying jobs lifted many people out of poverty."

from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/19/AR2006071901735.html

12.7% x According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, projected to 07/01/07 at 03:16 GMT (EST+5) is
302,225,608 = 38,382,652 people living in poverty in our nation.