The Village Voice: Power Plays — Cripes. What is wrong with our government institutions? These guys on Viagra? What are they thinking?
As easy targets go, nothing beats sex offenders. So State Comptroller Alan Hevesi hit the jackpot on Sunday, when he revealed that 198 of New York State’s Level 3 (or high-risk) sex offenders are getting Viagra through Medicaid. Giving erection-inducing meds to people who may have sexually assaulted someone seems, well, dumb
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Next… Government agency offers free weapons training to registered gang members.
Make that free weapons for gang members, not training.
How about appointments to bank president for known mobsters?
Or free drugs to people who have been busted for selling em?
From May 23, 2005 Why is it news now?
I do not believe medicaid will pay for erection-inducing meds in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. If I’m wrong mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
I can’t believe this is still going on. This was a relatively big story a few years ago and legislators were vowing to put an end to it. Guess there were no kickbacks for passing this type of legislation.
Do convicted sex offenders not get married and have wives? Do sex offenders not have erection problems as they get older? Would salt peter pills be paid for by Medicare for sex offenders?
Just a few questions to go against the grain.
Is it being suggested that giving Viagara to sex offenders makes them more likely to sex offend?
If this is the case, it shows a worrying misunderstanding of how viagara works. How many of you have actually used it?
Seems to me that everyone thinks what happens is you take a viagara and half an hour later you have a flagpole in your pants and an uncrontrollable urge to put it somewhere.
It does not work like that. Except in adult comics like “Viz”, perhaps.
Being a sex a sex offender has little too do with getting a woodie or not..
So we’ll spend the money to help them get hard ons but not to keep them locked up…BRAVO AMERICA….and so many people wonder why others think our country has become so effed up….
As much as i hate to say this out loud..
most chicks i know fly off the handle way before i do…
that, in itself, should say way more about me.. than “the chicks i know”
or war
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