there are multiple recommendations in there that will save billions and billions and billions of dollars every year that you have not acted on.
Ron Johnson
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Ron Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin, a position he has held since January 3, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Johnson has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, healthcare reform, and government accountability during his tenure in the Senate. He has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the federal deficit and has often emphasized the need for economic growth through private sector initiatives.
I think he has exactly the skills and aptitude we want right now to be a Governor of the U.S. Postal Service.
I have argued that one of the great solutions that we could see in our lifetime would be to change standing, particularly to allow legislative standing.
One of the most bizarre moments of my lifetime is when President Obama stood in front of Congress and told them, I intend to circumvent Congress.
The Members of Congress would actually hold their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution and jealously guard their powers, which is not happening.
it costs somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 per year to incarcerate somebody.
when you hear the other--I do not know what the exact stats are, but one in 20, one in ten. I mean, that is part of the problem, is this is enormously expensive, unfortunately.
Is there any danger to having that in the general population? Is there any abuse of that drug?
Senator Johnson's released a bill that will eliminate the pain scale, effectively.
I want to first thank Senator Baldwin for making this a very nice bipartisan effort and getting us a little bit closer here.
My point is, why has one been legal--or a class of them legal--and another one illegal?
the primary root cause of our unsecure border is America's insatiable demand for drugs
we need to put that same type of committed, long-term effort into doing everything we can to reduce our insatiable demand for drugs
we are only interdicting between 5 and 10 percent of the illegal drugs coming into this country. We are not winning this war.
I could not addict my customers to plastic by giving them a free sample. You can addict a child to drugs.
So, we have one form of heroin that is produced artificially that is, basically, identical to heroin.
We are spending $25 billion a year to interdict the supply of drugs and you want an indication--you want a metric? Dropping from over $3,000 per gram to $100 per gram----
I think your third point was leave the United States more vulnerable to the machinations of government.





