{"id":1291259,"date":"2022-02-11T06:12:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T11:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291259"},"modified":"2022-02-11T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:23:01","slug":"a-chicken-in-every-pot-and-a-crack-pipe-in-every-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-chicken-in-every-pot-and-a-crack-pipe-in-every-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chicken In Every Pot And A Crack Pipe In Every Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-chicken-in-every-pot-and-a-crack-pipe-in-every-mouth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291259&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238358065-scaled-1-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In accordance with Executive Order 13985, which President Biden issued on his inauguration day, the Department of Health and Human Services will \u2018advance racial equity\u2019 through the purchase of \u201csafe smoking kits,\u201d better known as crackpipes. The Biden administration did not explain how subsidizing the use of narcotics would accomplish its stated goal of \u201cadvancing racial equity.\u201d Perhaps the President believes white people have been hogging all the crack.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the reasoning, news reports about the policy have embarrassed Democrats, who have alternately denied and defended the program. The White House now promises that \u201cno federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits.\u201d Administration officials have not clarified how exactly they expect addicts to smoke crack, \u201csafely\u201d or otherwise, without crack pipes.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing \u201cfact-check\u201d website <em>Snopes<\/em> also denied the policy, rating the claim that \u201cin early 2022, the Biden administration endeavored to advance racial equity by distributing crack pipes to drug users\u201d as \u201cmostly false.\u201d But in the very next sentence, <em>Snopes<\/em> admitted, \u201cIn 2022, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services substance abuse harm reduction grant <em>did require recipients to provide safer smoking kits<\/em> to existing drug users\u201d (emphasis mine). Still, the \u201cfact-checkers\u201d insisted, \u201cthis was just one of around 20 components of the grant program,\u201d which they contended sought \u201cto reduce harm and the risk of infection among drug users, not to advance racial equity, <em>although that was a secondary consideration<\/em>\u201d (emphasis again mine). In other words, the claim was entirely correct.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps aware that its attempt to debunk Biden\u2019s crack pipe giveaway would fail to persuade, <em>Snopes <\/em>then changed strategy and defended the program. \u201cSafe smoking kits typically consist of several other items,\u201d the \u201cfact-checkers\u201d observed, \u201cincluding: a rubber mouthpieces (sic) for glass pipes, in order to prevent burns and cuts; brass screens, in order to filter out potentially harmful contaminants or debris; as well as disinfectant wipes.\u201d The government will not merely distribute crack pipes, you see, but also crack pipe accessories to make smoking more pleasant. Such measures, according to <em>Snopes<\/em>, \u201care a logical component of a broader substance abuse strategy of harm reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reasonable people will dispute the claim that encouraging addicts to do more drugs is \u201clogical.\u201d But such illogic dictates much if not most modern social policy. Rather than repress and correct disorders, we indulge them. When men mistakenly believe themselves to be women, we no longer tell them the truth, which we now consider cruel, but instead affirm their delusions and encourage them to mutilate their bodies. When criminals riot and loot, we no longer arrest and punish them but instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/baltimore-unrest\/mayor-stephanie-rawlings-blake-under-fire-giving-space-destroy-baltimore-n349656\">give<\/a> \u2018those who wish to destroy space to do that.\u2019 When drug addicts want to get high, we no longer prevent them from poisoning themselves, but instead legalize and even subsidize their self-destruction.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy of indulgence has turned out precisely as rightminded people might have expected: record-high overdose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/nchs_press_releases\/2021\/20211117.htm\">deaths<\/a>, urban <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homicide-records\/story?id=81466453\">collapse<\/a>, family <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3422624\/report-millennials-marriage\/\">breakdown,<\/a>&nbsp;sexual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nearly-40-percent-us-gen-zs-30-percent-christians-identify-lgbtq-poll-shows-1641085\">anarchy<\/a>, and an historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vitalsigns\/suicide\/index.html\">spike<\/a> in suicides, particularly among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/06\/why-suicide-rates-among-millennials-are-rising\/612943\/\">young.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the wisdom of our age, plying addicts with drugs will not advance any sort of equity, nor will indulging disordered appetites expand liberty, which is not the ability to do whatever one pleases but rather the right to do what one ought. The crackhead with a pipe full of rocks is not free. Neither is the lunatic with a head full of delusions, nor even the looter who lacks the discipline not to pilfer a pair of Nike sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Justice, not indulgence, \u201cis the end of government,\u201d according to James Madison and all other sensible people throughout history. The most important of the cardinal virtues, justice is a moral quality or habit which perfects the will and inclines it to render to each and to all what belongs to them. To wrest prosperity from present adversity, we must put down the crack pipe; to vice and delusion, we must just say no.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with Executive Order 13985, which President Biden issued on his inauguration day, the Department of Health and Human Services will \u2018advance racial equity\u2019 through the purchase of \u201csafe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}