I have always been baffled that people who are so mean when spending taxpayer's money on their own people to relieve cripppling poverty, crime, physical and mental illness etc are so generous in spending it on the attempted enforcement of unenforceable laws. With figures approaching one per cent of the population incarcerated (in The Land of the Free) it is surprising how much dedication is invested in punishing people for victimless crime. Furthermore, it is the same people who detest subsidy for their own citizens in any area of their own welfare, who support the generous subsidies which are effectively donated to oil companies and other latter day robber barons when they set off to burgle and exploit in other countries. Mind you, I ain't arguing with all this. You guys have got your principles!