I3lindman

Drugs frighten me as a father and grandfather. I have never supported legalization of them. However, if someone shows me the safety of our living standards can be protected I would listen. But currently I am opposed to legalization

If by some chance you actually read this response:

Look at Portugal. They legalized in 2000, since then usage rates have gone down, OD rates have gone to almost 0, and drug violence has completely disappeared. Their system seems to work very well, please consider it if you ever have the chance to do so.

EDIT: Grammar and typos.

Do you think the national debt can be repaid without heavy inflation to reduce its effective size?

The persistence of public debt across generations when used for non-durable goods and services represents is in fact older people stealing from younger people. So, things like infrastructure that have long and functional lives are easily justified; but things like social welfare, foreign aid, corporate subsidies and bailouts, etc... are all effectively future obligations laid off on future citizens, while current citizens reap the benefits.

Also, interest accrued on the debt is a further exageration of these deficiecies. At 17 trillion in debt, supposing a friendly 1% interest rate, that's $170 billion annually. Suppose to average person earns a total of $5 million in their lifetime, that's 34,000 people a year that effectively evaporate into nothingness from strictly the interest on the debt.