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John Thune: there the liberals go again. I do not get it. I do not get why the President is opposing his own drug czar by announcing…

On the recordApril 22, 1998
there the liberals go again. I do not get it. I do not get why the President is opposing his own drug czar by announcing that the Federal Government now wants to start another program of government handouts. Enthusiasm for government handouts is nothing new for this administration, only this time the government wants to start handing out free needles to drug addicts. Instead of trying to get drug addicts off the street and into a program that will stop their self-destructive behavior, the government will now give a green light to their drug habit and send them on their way with clean needles so that they can, get this, abuse drugs safely. I have had about enough of the liberal insanity, and I think that most Americans are tired of left-wing experts peddling a policy based on bogus science that runs counter to common sense. The liberals love to come up with new handouts: money, condoms, free this and free that. Now, just when we think it cannot get any worse, free needles for safe shooting. Safe shooting, America.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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Criticizing government programs providing free needles to drug addicts.

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