As your constituent, I'm writing to urge you to eliminate funding for the ineffective, expensive, and harmful National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign when you consider the Financial Services appropriations bill. Government-funded studies have repeatedly shown that these expensive "anti-drug" ads actually cause more - not less - teen drug use! Why would you keep wasting my precious tax dollars on ineffective methods that have been consistently shown not to work... More than $1.5 billion have been already wasted, lets tighten up that hemorrhaging now while we still have the chance.
No more money should be wasted; why not spend the money on something useful like the public school systems that are educating our future generations. Even better, let's pump that money into the health care system so that or older generations don't have to choose between paying for their medicine or eating. Look, when the even the White House's own Office of Management and budget says that this program is "not performing," you know that there is a problem. This program only received a score of 6/100 %; that is crazy in any real business, any investment with only a 6% success rate would be cut out like a cancer.
Nonetheless, the president has requested that another $130 million of taxpayers' money be thrown at the ads next year. Please don't allow this harmful waste to go on any longer. I am really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on whether or not the government should keep spending taxpayers' money on a program that gets failing evaluations year after year. I would also love to hear why you keep wasting money on a "war" with no end instead of spending that money on our public school system and help out people like my mother, a public school kindergarten teacher, working to further our country's youth education."
--Oscar Ramirez
Tell Congress to help people like Oscar: http://capwiz.com/mobilize/issues/alert/?alertid=9758556
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