Seven hundred billion dollars!!! I don’t wanna talk about it. I didn’t want to talk about it Friday when it was seventy billion. How the hell does it go from 70 billion to 700 billion in two days?!
Did I hear it wrong?
Genocide in Darfur. And we go to the mattresses to help AIG and WaMu? WTF?! Well, if they go down we all go down, right? That’s what they say. I’m hoping to have my accountant explain it to me this week but unfortunately this is due now. But if she, by some stroke of genius, happens to make this debacle make sense to me I will be sure to let ya’ll all know about it next week. I’ll use some dope game metaphor that involves guns and crack so all you Gen-Y hip-hop heads can understand it.
Anyhoo, this whole issue got me to thinking -- America is in a financial slump and we need to get our hustle on. Where I’m from, you find yourself in this situation and you hit the block. Maybe you buy an ounce of weed and then you get to work. BINGO! Seriously now more than ever, America needs to hit the block. Effing Legalize It already. Do you know how much freaking money we waste policing marijuana?! Billions.
You know how much money there is to be made in taxing and regulating marijuana? You’re paying for judges, police officers, corrections officers (AKA aspiring rappers) and 3 hots plus a cot for the convicted – and all in the name of keeping a “hardcore” weed dealer off the streets??!! What a waste.
British Columbia is making money on the “pot”. Why shouldn’t we? Why spend millions of good American dollars policing their borders trying to keep the “pot” out? Me personally, I ”pass on grass” -- but if someone wants to get high? Let them get high. While we as a country get rich. And it doesn’t stop there.
Prostitution? Legalize it. Stop sending people like my favorite rapper Suga Free to jail for dabbling in the world’s oldest profession. It’s a fact that government-regulated prostitution decreases the spread of STD’s, sex crimes, divorce and child abuse. Who doesn’t want that?? Along with more money for the good ol’ US of A?? Come on? Alright, the prostitution thing may have a little to with my trip to Vegas last weekend where I got ripped off at some rub n tug.
Four hundred dollars later and the only thing a woman touched of mine was my wallet. Club Xclusive. Never ever EVER let your Armenian cab driver drop you off there.
That being said, America -- we need money. And we need to stop getting in our own way before history repeats itself. Repeats what, you ask? The Great Depression. During this tragic time, do you know what the US government had the nerve to do? Ban alcohol. People were starving and they thought that the best thing to do was spend 14 – 38 million dollars a year on preventing the distribution and consumption of alcohol. Crime rates rose and we spiraled deeper into financial hell. I’m not saying that legalizing prostitution and marijuana will prevent our economy from crashing but little extra cash may help pad the fall.
Murs' upcoming album 'Murs for President' will be available on September 30th. For more information on Murs please visit: www.myspace.com/murs
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