First off, I have to tip my cap to Mr. Fussle: It is illogical to be supportive of pharmaceutical companies to make profits and not doctors. The American Dream is for people to be as successful as possible no matter what industry they partake in. Now I have a few questions for any supporters who want to make PSE a prescription:
1. The most obvious question is where is the Indiana Constitutional authority to tell people what they can or cannot put in their bodies in the privacy of their own home? On top of that, where is the moral authority for society to restrict the choices that people make?
2. We are spending approximately $19,000 per prisoner in Indiana; does anyone think that we could take the money we spend housing people who use drugs and instead educating the public the health problems drugs might cause if you use them?
3. Is saving lives the best argument that can be made for restricting PSE to prescription? If so, we should eliminate tobacco (prevent lung cancer deaths), alcohol (prevent drunk driving deaths), fast food (eliminate obesity and heart disease), guns (prevent gun violence), swimming (prevent drowning deaths), cars (prevent auto accidents) among other things. Life is about the choices we make and the rewards or consequences of those choices.
4. Why should we have doctors who see patients throughout their day, take the time to take calls from other patients asking them to call in a prescription for cold medicine?
5. To Jessica Conley-Gillman, who made the decision to use drugs: If someone forced you, they should be in prison for forcing you to do something against your free will. If you made the choice freely, then you are in prison because society is against the choice you made. Another thing, you are 26; you should have known by now that your crime is wrong. Sitting in prison because you made a choice that society says is wrong is counter-productive. Good for your recovery, it should not have been in prison.
6. This is off the meth topic, but I have to ask Jennifer Arnold, you could not tell just by looking outside during the blizzard to maybe not drive? Does everyone in Kosciusko County need to be held by the hand? I actually drove to work during the blizzard. I made the choice, and I made it successfully. Had I got stuck, I would not have blamed the county for telling me not to drive during a blizzard. I would have blamed myself for making the wrong choice and paid the consequences for making that choice.
To the county commissioners, there may be several people who want your resignation; I am asking you to stay in office. To the people who complain about the commissioners' job, run against them and hold everyone's hand.
In a true Republic, neither government nor society can restrict a choice people make. If freedom wins, the people and the Republic win. If freedom loses, the people and the Republic lose.
