Yes, yes. Yes. You are all coming home with me. Happy wednesday, everyone. So, In The Beginning America was a pretty great place. People banded together, created laws to keep everyone safe and do you know what, it worked. Turns out if you build a country with border, military and law enforce. , prosperity wont be far behind. Do you know what comes after that, dont you . Complacency, a false sense of security, then decline followed by destruction. Because when the simplest of minds dont have to worry about barbarians at the gate they start to develop Something Like luxury beliefs unconnected to reality. To disagree with that makes us the bad guys. Because were the Oppress Sores who keep thugs from enjoying fun stuff like theft, violence, street pooping, otherwise known a walking tour of san francisco. Its not how naive they are is that they can kill literally. Last week in Philly John Kruger was brutally murdered in his own home. On twitter and in print previously however, kruger had do
new bipartisan report from congress finding most of our country s supply of deadly fentanyl and deadly op oids comes out of mexico. which means it crosses the border. overdoses have cost the u.s. a trillion a year since 2018. more than 100,000 people died of drug o.d.s between may of 2020 and april of 2021. you need no more evidence than that story right there. dana: we talked to a father yesterday james rauh who basically he lost his adult son to fentanyl poiseing. here is what he said yesterday. the chinese are supplying the drugs to mexico and mexico shipping it in in unbelievable quantities. it is indicative of stockpiling. fentanyl deaths have doubled in the whole nation in two years which is a terrible sign.
this is more along the line of trafficking charge where i would want to focus our attention. we removed the mandatory minimums in massachusetts. and in a new criminal justice reform bill signed into law by governor baker. so we are moving away from focusing on those type of crimes. i believe what we are doing here in massachusetts at least i m not sure what is happening where you are located but there are a lot of nonviolent people sitting in jail and it is costing us over $50,000, and sometimes upward of $645,000 65,000 a year to have them there. when they come out they have a felony and they can t get housing and they can t get employment. that is why we have a 50% recidivism rate here. tucker: it s tough, for sure. when 70,000 americans dying of dug o.d.s drug o.d.s, drug dealing could be form of
state. scott johnson, thank you very much. an expert. i appreciate your interest, tucker. tucker: drug od s reached a record high. congress releases convicted drug dealers back on the streets. details next. see that s funny, i thought you traded options. i m not really a wall street guy. what s the hesitation? eh, it just feels too complicated, you know? you know, at td ameritrade, we can walk you through your options trades step by step until you re comfortable. i could be up for that. step-by-step options trading support from td ameritrade
heroin overdoses killed one hun people over one hun thousand, the crack epidemic killed two people ver 100,000. this epidemic opioids are killing a staggering 10.3 people per 100,000. five times more than crack and it s getting much more. in 201515,000 people were killed by drug od s, opioid are the biggestit cull brit. life expectancy is falling because of that. more appalling is much of this is financed by the federal government. paid for by medicaid providing pills that cann be sold on the black market for big sums. the crisis is terrible. what is washington doing about it? not very much. what can they do? that will be the focus of many future segments on this show. as for tonight that s about it. tune in every night at 9:00.