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The Young Turks interviews CNN's Jack Cafferty

He started spinning records on the radio. He was on a kid's program. Ranger Jack, Smokey the Bear's sidekick.

Sorry. No video tape, or so Cafferty says.

Interesting.

Anyway.

Cafferty on the 'War on Drugs'

Jack Cafferty has a good commentary on the 'War on Drugs'.

How many police officers and sheriff's deputies are involved in investigating and solving crimes involving illegal drugs? And arresting and transporting and interrogating and jailing the suspects?

How many prosecutors and their staffs spend time prosecuting drug cases? How many defense lawyers spend their time defending drug suspects?

How many hours of courtroom time are devoted to drug trials? How many judges, bailiffs, courtroom security officers, stenographers, etc., spend their time on drug trials?

And there's more and you probably should read it.

He sums it up like this:

What do you suppose the total price tag is for this failed war on drugs? One senior Harvard economist estimates we spend $44 billion a year fighting the war on drugs. He says if they were legal, governments would realize about $33 billion a year in tax revenue. Net swing of $77 billion. Could we use that money today for something else? You bet your ass we could. Plus the cartels would be out of business. Instantly. Goodbye crime and violence.

If drugs were legalized, we could empty out a lot of our prison cells. People will use this stuff whether it's legal or not. Just like they do booze. And you could make the argument that in some cases alcohol is just as dangerous as some drugs. I know.

It's time for a change. If only the Attorney General of the United States, the Congressional Dems and the current President were brave enough to challenge the status quo with respect to the ridiculous 'War on Drugs'.

I certainly don't see that happening.

Oh and I don't use drugs and rarely drink alcohol. I've found it to be an extremely negative influence in my life. I still think that the way the issues of drug use and abuse is handled in this country is completely asinine.

If it's broke, fix it, but don't keep doing the same thing and getting the same result because that's just insanity.

The Cafferty File: Who will history be kindest to, President Bush or Vice-President Dick Cheney?

Two wars, the worst economic downturn in history.

It's hard to see anything that CAN be looked upon kindly.

Listen to what people have to say in answer to this question.

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Why do citizens in 70 foreign countries prefer

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by a margin of nearly 4 to 1?

Condolences: thoughts are with Jack Cafferty who lost his beloved wife Carol

September 5, 2008

Remembering Carol Cafferty

Posted: 04:35 PM ET

Jack Cafferty isn’t here today for the Cafferty File because of some tragic news.

His wife of 35 years, Carol, passed away unexpectedly this morning. Carol was everything to Jack. The dedication of his book reads, “for Carol, my wife, my life.”

Jack wrote about how she was the inspiration for him to get sober and straighten up his life: “In all the years that we’ve been married, she has always brought to the table her unshakable grounding in something a lot more real than being on television or being recognized in the corner drugstore. She has been my rock, having done a magnificent job of keeping me from getting full of helium and drifting off the surface of the earth… She was all the incentive I needed to make painful but transforming changes – to get sober and stop smoking. I knew that I’d lose her if I didn’t. She’s an amazing woman who simply wasn’t worth losing.”

One story Jack loves to tell is how he and Carol met – when he was a local news anchor in Kansas City. They started to meet regularly for a quick meal between his shows and became good friends. Whenever Jack had to leave, his exit line was “We’d better wrap this up. Got to get back to the station.” One night Carol finally asked, “What kind of a gas station do you work at? You’re always wearing a tie.”

Jack explained it was a television station. He loved the fact that she had no clue and couldn’t care less that he had been on air there every night for four years. He later described that as one of his life’s “twenty-four-carat moments” that made his heart soar. He said to himself then that he might marry her because “it can’t get any more honest and pure than that.”

Our deepest sympathies go out to Jack and to their two daughters, Leslie and Leigh. Our thoughts are also with Jack’s other two daughters, Julie and Jill, and his grandchildren.

Carol was an animal lover. If you’d like to make a donation in her memory, the family asks you give to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. You can contribute at aspca.org.

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