In the book I’m stranger here myself by Bill Bryson, wrote a good chapter about The War on Drugs. Bryson belives that we care more about people selling drugs or even people having them even if it was not theirs, then people who rape other people or people who have hurt others. He does not support drugs, but he is saying that we spend way too much money on something that is not getting better.
In this chapter he stated that the people in Texas turned down a proposal on building new schools but they said yes to building new prisons for people who a being convicted for drug charges. The drug bill was in its billions while the schools were in its thousands. Even if you did not know about having the drugs in your house the government will take everything even your house. Bill Bryson gave a lot of good facts in this chapter. Everything that was said was about a fact that he had learned.
Bills solution to this problem would be to spend the money they got and spend it on rehabilitation centers to get the people help. The prisons are getting too crowed and they are letting the wrong people out. People who raped someone is getting out before people who was found with drugs.
I do agree with bryson on this statement that he is trying to tell us. i think that there are more important things in the word that should be handled but we are too worried about the drugs other then the other things in the world. we do let other peopele out of jail befor we would let drug peple who are caught. even if the drug was not theirs they are still getting punished. i do not think that is right of us and i do think some things should change! Bryson does make a good statement about the drug issue.
ReplyDeletethe chapter of comsumer pleasures talks about the shopping addication that america suffer. this is true because i feel exactly what bryson is talking about. i always go shopping after i get my check and its so hard not to just save it for future needs if you get in debt or something. i also feel that this is ture because the businesses always find new ways to atract customers and the customers always fall for it. on the T.V when ever theres a break in between the programing theres an ad for some product or some service that claimes its better than all of its competitors. this makes us customers feel that it's true and we than feel the "need" for that product or service. the last reason that I feel this is true about Bryson's chapter on consumer spending is very big is because in the ads the companies use celebraity and pro athlets to make us believe we will be just like them.
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