[420 Girl]

Former US Intelligence Officer and longtime activist, Clifford Schaffer, recently posted an intriguing forecast for the War on Drugs, as well as all the other terrible government programs that do far more harm than good.

According to Schaffer, the state and federal governments are so broke that we are just a few months away from a major shift in government operations.

“For the next couple of years or so, policy changes will be dictated more by budget than by ideology. Making changes based on ideology will continue to be politically dangerous. If they make changes based on budget then nobody has a real complaint. The money just isn’t there, so what are you going to do?”

Schaffer, who once grew marijuana in a greenhouse across the street from a police station, manages the highly respected Schafffer Drug Library.

Cliff’s outlook for the Golden State is anything but golden:

“California is $40 billion in the hole, so it will be some time before the
taxpayers get their refund. Until they do, every damn one of them will be on
our side on these expense issues. The issue right now is the economy. The budget crisis will force them to make changes whether they like it or not. All we have to do is show them the numbers, and ask them to make the choice between putting gas in the
helicopters or paying those pissed-off taxpayers.”

Schaffer sees hard times for the Narcs by this October.

“They won’t be able to afford gas for the CAMP helicopters by October. By
April, every taxpayer in California will be screaming that they want their
tax refund before the state spends one more dime on useless stuff.”

Is such an extreme analysis realistic? According to Schaffer, we probably won’t have long to wait in order to find out.

“With any luck, this will be all but over by this fall.”

By Steve Kubby, 2008 candidate for the Libertarian Presidential and VP nominations, 2000 and 2008 VP nomination runner-up, and 1998 California Libertarian candidate for Governor.

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