Jack Kingston: “Mr. Speaker, since Clinton has become President, the use of tobacco and drugs in our country has skyrocketed. I wanted…”

“Mr. Speaker, since Clinton has become President, the use of tobacco and drugs in our country has skyrocketed. I wanted to get this straight with my Democrat friends: What they want to do is penalize tobacco users by making them pay more for tobacco, but they want to subsidize drug users by having my middle-class taxpayers pay for their syringes. Think about this a minute. The hard-working folks back in Savannah, Georgia that I represent and all coastal Georgia wake up every morning at 5, 6 o'clock in the morning, bust their tail getting ready to get to work, kiss their kids good-bye, take them to school. The mom, the dad, they go back to their own offices. Meanwhile, back in Vancouver or other places outside of America, the Canadian taxpayers, their counterparts, are having to pay for drugs and syringes. Is this not great? Let us think about this for a minute. The days of moonshine, would we have fought moonshine by giving out clean and sterile jugs for moonshiners to put their products in? And what would Elliot Ness have said to Al Capone? "We are going to bust you, but do it with clean jugs." Then what about gamblers? Should we start giving them clean playing cards, because certainly compulsive gamblers are subjected to germs on cards. What about compulsive eaters? Should we give them free but low-fat French fries? What has all this needle exchange done for people?”