DRUG ERADICATION PROGRAM ANOTHER RIPOFF OF TAXPAYERS

The article, "Dragging drugs out of city won't come cheap," (AC-T,
June 2), illustrates the unfair rape of American taxpayers. The
article states it will cost some combinations of governments and
"funding options," (code for whose pockets your City Council can rob)
$600,000 to handle eradicating drugs from Asheville's 10 public
housing developments. Truly, people no longer can see the trees for
the forests in our land. (A reversal of the usual terms, isn't it?) Do
not hold your breath that that amount of money will make even a down
payment.

Forests, because your city leaders can see the people in the aggregate
and the totality of the situation, but cannot perceive of the
individuals, 3,000 of them, you say, who comprise the problem.
Councilperson Holly Jones refers to the problem as "the city's," with
not an expressed thought that there should be, heaven forbid, any
personal responsibility and accountability expended by the individuals
for their own plight. She must see them all as helpless. Asheville in
this matter is surely no different from hundreds of other communities
across our nation who are enslaved by 40 years of enabling liberalism
and our nonjudgmental, permissive society in granting billions of
dollars for every conceived kind of "crock."

Ben A. Robinson,

Lake Junaluska