Would you send your child out to play in a garbage dump?

Would you send your child out to play in a garbage dump, to crawl around on broken glass and stinking rotten garbage? Would you hand a smoker a package of cigarettes and tell him this will help him quit smoking? Most of us who are normal or do not have our own vested interest would answer no to those ridiculous questions.
BUT - this is exactly what AIDS - Saskatoon, Egadz, the city of Saskatoon and the provincial government are all asking you to do. Ofcourse I am referring to the ill advised needle exchange program. (Look at Tammy Robert's blog on news talk 650 radio to see the disgusting pictures) Because for many these groups the drug trade and the plight of the junkie and poor is their business as in employment, Saskatchewan leads the way in the number of needles (so called exchanged) and passed out in the country. Despite their efforts the incidence of HIV is up 40% and now as
spring emerges these filthy needles are scattered all about in city parks.
The do gooders rationalize. They say even if a child is pricked by one of these things the chance of getting a disease is very low. Like its ok for the child to touch one. Well most parents I know don't want their child stepping on one of these when they go to the park. Its time this aiding and abetting program, which provides employment for those who vigorously defend it, is done away with.
Whats the alternative? Well there is only one. Get the person into treatment centers where his dependency will be cured. Ask any recovered addict how they recovered and they will tell you two things for sure.
1) They had to reach the bottom. A point so low that they realized they had to get help and they had to recover. How do you bottom out when someone (government funded) supports and supplies your habit?
2) They had to get away from the source of the problem. Whether thats smoking,
drugs or alcohol, you can't keep feeding the habit and expect to recover.
Its time to do away with these groups and their programs. Their way has not worked and it will not work.
Question is - will the government (city or provincial) have the courage? Not very likely.