re: Trey Radel votes for drug testing for food stampers, busted with cocaine

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I struggle with the disease of alcoholism

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This statement drives me bananas, I love how recategorizing things as illnesses is this new fun way of taking away personal responsibility. Whatever happened to people just fricking up or being frick ups. Then he proceeds to following it up with another gem:

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and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice

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He didn't lead himself to the irresponsible choice...alcoholism did. Blame something else because you're not man enough to own up to things, that's what the world has come to.