Would you like to see what $24.5 million of your tax dollars is used for
If you have been a reader for awhile you know that I am a big opponent of the “War on Drugs”. I feel that people should be allowed to ruin their lives if they’d like or to go ahead and get treatment. We waste $50 billion a year on this “war” and we haven’t been able to stop drugs entering this country since the days of Nixon.
The controversial National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), located in a former department store in the congressional district of Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA), the powerful Chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, has been widely criticized as being a massive waste of taxpayer money.
Many have tried to eliminate the earmark for being wasteful and duplicative. Even the President was unsuccessful in killing it. Just this year, NDIC received $24.5 million in the FY 2009 Defense Appropriations bill.
Well today, Americans get a chance to see what their tax dollars pay off. This morning NDIC released National Drug Threat Assessment 2009. It’s one of the only things they do with the $24.5 million.
Information obtained from Taxpayers for Common Sense.
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Tags: defense spporpriations bill, Drugs, house defense appropriations subcommittee, jack murtha, national drug intelligence center, national drug threat assessment, ndic, war
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