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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Sat May 24, 2014, 08:23 PM May 2014

The War on Drugs is working exactly as its backers intended ...

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The War on Drugs is working exactly as its backers intended ... (Original Post) Scuba May 2014 OP

Yep billhicks76 May 2014 #1

The phony, forever "War on Drugs" is a CASH COW for someone!!! blkmusclmachine May 2014 #2

We're a nation of suckers. GoneFishin May 2014 #3

keeping drugs illegal helps bankers: money laundering is the most profitable kind of banking yurbud May 2014 #4

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)

1. Yep

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2014, 08:55 PM

May 2014

We are a nation of fools.

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)

2. The phony, forever "War on Drugs" is a CASH COW for someone!!!

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Sat May 24, 2014, 08:55 PM

May 2014

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)

3. We're a nation of suckers.

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Sat May 24, 2014, 09:18 PM

May 2014

yurbud

(39,405 posts)

4. keeping drugs illegal helps bankers: money laundering is the most profitable kind of banking

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2014, 09:25 PM

May 2014

Sure you can loan money you don't have, but that trickles back in over years or decades.

Normally, if you someone makes a deposit, a bank has to pay some token amount of interest--but if the money needs laundering, someone has to pay to make a deposit.

The best of all possible worlds for bankers.

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