Colorado Pols Spending Your Money to Fix the Damage They Caused

Colorado lawmakers are apparently satisfied to replace real community and societal connection with – you guess it – more government programs.

According to preliminary numbers released by the CDC, Colorado drug overdose deaths shot up (no pun intended) 37.5% in 2020 compared to 2019, placing Colorado 7.5% higher than the national average. Nationwide, over 93,000 people died due to drug overdoses, over 1,500 of which were in Colorado.

While anecdotal and statistical evidence points to the massive stress placed on Coloradoans by economic and social lockdowns, fundamental disruption of everyday life, the forced isolation of the citizenry, and the millions of lost jobs caused by government reaction to COVID-19, Colorado Democrat politicians accept no blame. Instead, they have passed more government action – planning to spend a whopping $550 million on “mental and behavioral health services.”

Behavioral health experts have drawn the line directly from government overreach and interference into the lives of Americans (even if they actually blame the virus) and the historic spike in drug use around the country. Data has proven no correlation between the severity of government lockdown policies and population health outcomes of COVID-19, indicating that the consequences of government lockdown efforts were universally negative.

Now Colorado lawmakers – who usurped power that was never theirs to begin with and created a once-in-a-lifetime economic and societal catastrophe – are doubling down. They are giving themselves even more control in the form of massive spending – to fix a problem that the government caused to begin with.