Choosing My Opinion Piece

As I started looking for an opinion piece I didn’t think it would be this difficult. I figured that I knew what I believed in, so I’d just go online and pick something. Well it wasn’t that easy, the fact that I do know what I believe in made it harder. There were so many topics to pick from. There were topics from monetary policy to the war on terror. I realize that for some reason nobody else I know, but me, is interested in monetary policy so I scraped that topic. I didn’t want to bore anybody.

I then looked to the war on terror but to my surprise I couldn’t find any good recent anti-war pieces. I guess Obama has somehow managed to neutralize the anti-war left, which is kind of scary. After looking at other topics I settled on the prohibition of drugs. The first article I found I had to scrap because it wasn’t going to work. Then I found an article by Congressman Charles Rangel of New York. He was arguing why we should continue the violation of the individual’s right to self ownership by telling them what to do with their own bodies.

In the article the Congressman says that nobody ever answers his questions about lifting prohibition. He asks if prohibition was lifted would all drugs be legalized. My response was hell yes you statist busybody. He asked would consumers be allowed to buy unlimited supplies of drugs. My response was of course you drug Nazi. He asks who would be allowed to sell drugs. My response was anybody who wanted to make a profit after all this is a capitalist country. He asked would we be prepared for the medical cost spawned from excessive drug use. That question was a little too Commie for me. The individual is responsible for himself if he makes bad choices it’s his own responsibility not the states. He can ask for help from friends, family, even the church but he can’t expect to be bailed out by the state. Nobody is too big to fail not even Freddie and Fannie. Because I had a relatively strong emotional response to this article I decided to choose it for my paper.