Joe Cunningham: “I think that also goes when we are talking about drugs, not to come across to MTV and say they would inhale if they…”

“I think that also goes when we are talking about drugs, not to come across to MTV and say they would inhale if they could, the leader of our Nation. I have talked to drug agents and I have talked to people in rehabilitation. The kids sneer. They say, ``Look, the President said he would inhale if he could.'' That is the wrong message. Let me give my colleagues another example. Remember the young man that was caned in Singapore for spray-painting cars? I am not saying that we cane people, but I would guarantee that that individual, that young man, when he went back to Singapore would never spray-paint another car nor would any other individual. But yet look at our streets and the tagging and the graffiti and those kinds of things that take place because we let it go on. That is just a symptom of the lack of commitment, from drugs to graffiti, that juvenile crime has gone exponentially up, a 600 percent increase and the viciousness of it has increased, to be paramount. Those are the kinds of things I think the gentlemen are talking about. We need a commitment, not just words and not the wrong direction. You do not say, let us increase rehabilitation dollars and cut off why they are getting on drugs in the first place. I want to stop it so I do not have to put as many dollars in rehab, and save those children.”