Is there a moral Liberal state than VT? I do not find this story at all surprising.
ZitatThe governor of Vermont devoted his entire State of the State speech on Wednesday to address the scourge of heroin abuse, a problem he described as a “full blown… crisis” in his state, but which is also spreading across the country.
Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, described an epidemic that “may be invisible to many,” but which has increased in his state by 770 percent since 2000.
Vermont is more often associated with maple trees and dairy farmers than heroin addicts, but the problem is draining state health and law enforcement resources, the governor said.
“In every corner of our state, heroin and opiate drug addiction threatens us,” he said. The governor argued that the state needs to change its emphasis from policing to treating heroin abuse like a disease that requires treatment.
“The time has come for us to stop quietly averting our eyes from the growing heroin addiction in our front yards,” Shumlin said, “while we fear and fight treatment facilities in our backyards.”
The governor said as abuse of prescription painkillers has fallen, and heroin abuse has increased. Across the country state agencies are registering a similar trend, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
In 2013, the number of deaths from heroin in Vermont doubled, according to the governor and there were twice as many federal indictments against heroin dealers than in the prior two years.
You adopt the Liberal attitude of moral relativism, an indifference to personal conduct, a lackadaisical approach to social disorder, this is what you will reap.
I've had friends who live in VT my whole life. They've been the "hippie" types, always wanting to make up their own rules for how life should be lived. I'd shake my head after every visit. Life doesn't cooperate kindly with fools however. Their deeds come to light over time and all can see what folly they reap. God help them.
******************* Christianity teaches to share what we have earned, the "cheerful giver" model.