If America is so free, why do we have the biggest population of prisoners in the world? That is a good question. A disproportionate number of prisoners are black and poor. I guess if you have a good lawyer, you usually do not end up in jail. Many of the prisoners are in for non-violent crimes–mostly drugs.
Another travesty is there are more mentally ill in our prisons than in hospitals. And many are not getting proper care. Also, corporate profits are at a sixty year high. And their taxes are at a sixty year low.
I just read if you factor inflation in, the minimum wage would be over twenty dollars. It is not, so where are the profits coming from? I thought I read that in the US one in five collect food stamps. All that is not right. Are we really our brother’s keeper? Our leaders have a vested interest in keeping our population poor. Our politicians may be elected by the people but most of them do not answer to the general population. It is big money that they answer to.
In the words of Fidel Castro’s brother (during a Sean Penn interview), the politicians in America are the ‘ruling class.’ And now the government wants to run the medical profession. As more and more details come in, instead of the price of medical insurance going down it might double or triple for some people in 2014. It is enough to really get discouraged with our country. Our land of the free.
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