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  The Young Prince has a cold.   Which means I must search far and wide and journey through thousands of drug stores for Pseudoephedrine.  This simple little medicine does nothing more or less then open the nasal passages when you have a cold.  But some people take about a thousand pills and turn it into crystal meth.  This represents just a small fraction of the meth that is abused in this country, but our government must pretend it is doing something so they have cracked down on cold medicine.    In order to get Pseudoephedrine, you have to show ID and sign at a pharmacy.  You can’t but it at grocery stores as you once could; you have to go to a pharmacy.  IF you can find it.  Most cold medication manufacturers have stopped using it.  In order to bypass the Fed laws they use a substitute decongestant that works as well as a civil servant.  So if you want your child to get relief, and sleep, you have to scour the countryside searching for the forbidden cold medicine.   It is beyond maddening.  The government refuses to do anything about the real problem, our porous borders.  Most of the meth in this country comes from Mexico and slips in as easily as lettuce pickers and the 9/11 killers.  Since the Feds actually don’t want to seal the borders (who are they kidding with that can’t nonsense) they make people suffer from colds instead.   Just imagine how much better things will be with Hillary care as we put the people who dealt so moronically with the meth problem in charge of the whole damn health industry.   It is just another example of this insane combination we have of anarchy and tyranny.  There are serious crime problems that go unaddressed.  Meanwhile the government regulates what kind of showers we can take and what kind of cold medicine we can have.  Any serious attempts to deal with crime or terrorism and the ACLU runs to defend Blind Sheiks and child molesters.  But in the day to day law abiding citizens are regulated from morning shower to late night snack.   

At the dawn of the Republic Thomas Jefferson worried we would have an encroaching Federal Government that would seize power not allotted in the Constitution.  Alexander Hamilton worried that we would have a weak government that would fail to protect the borders and keep the citizens safe.  We have managed to combine both those fears into one.  The trains are regulated but they still don’t run on time.