Simple question

[casp0555]

Originally Posted by jms62

Follow the money

http://www.businessinsider.com/priso...-states-2016-7

and IF you could follow it further, you will find some pol or pols that are benefiting from the direction of that spending, money doesn't move unless one or several of these c#$%suckers benefit from it.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by casp0555

and IF you could follow it further, you will find some pol or pols that are benefiting from the direction of that spending, money doesn't move unless one or several of these c#$%suckers benefit from it.

And judges, Prosecutors, Police chiefs and the poster boy Rudy Giulani who by the way seems to have lost his fastball. I wonder how many times this thought goes through someones head. "You mean if we lock someone up we get more money and our stock price goes up?"

[Danzig]

This is from a few months ago:


County officials across Mississippi are warning of job losses and deep deficits as local jails are being deprived of the state inmates needed to keep them afloat. The culprit, say local officials, is state government and private prisons, which are looking to boost their own revenue as sentencing and drug-policy reforms are sending fewer bodies into the correctional system.

“If they do not send us our inmates back, we can’t make it,” said one county supervisor.

The state guaranteed that the local jails would never be less than 80 percent occupied, and the locals would get a 3 percent boost in compensation each year.

I find the last paragraph quite telling. Only one way to stick to that guarantee.

[Danzig]

As the wave of mass incarceration begins to recede, the Mississippi controversy has local and state officials talking openly about how harmful locking up fewer people up will be for the economy, confirming the suspicions of those who have argued that mass incarceration is not merely a strategy directed at crime prevention. “Under the administrations of Reagan and Clinton, incarceration, a social tool used for punishment, also became a major job creator,”

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Danzig

As the wave of mass incarceration begins to recede, the Mississippi controversy has local and state officials talking openly about how harmful locking up fewer people up will be for the economy, confirming the suspicions of those who have argued that mass incarceration is not merely a strategy directed at crime prevention. “Under the administrations of Reagan and Clinton, incarceration, a social tool used for punishment, also became a major job creator,”

Frightening.

[jms62]

http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-m...for-democracy/

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by jms62

http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-m...for-democracy/

It is astounding to me that anyone that believes this (and mark me down as an absolute YES as well) would not be thrilled to support a candidate whose sole purpose of leaving a successful and lavish lifestyle is to come to Washington to fix it.

He has single-handedly changed the Republican party platform. Never gave an inch when it comes to positions on trade deals (which both sides are in bed together on), illegal immigration, replacing ACA with something that actually works, etc - EVERY POSITION that the right kicks and screams about, had their chances to vote down, and yet happily went along with because it maintains the status quo and by extension protect the money that owns them. Leading by example, never bending on principles, and displaying the kind of leadership so desperately needed in Washington, HE is bringing THEM to his positions - not the other way around.

What insurance lobby, Big Pharma/AG/Oil lobby, and Banking institutions funded his primary bid? None. He owes no one - which is precisely how you fix Washington - from the outside with zero influence peddling.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-m...for-democracy/

[casp0555]

Originally Posted by jms62

http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-m...for-democracy/

worth listening to more than once...

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by jms62

http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-m...for-democracy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GFVKMTJUos