Corporate America's New Profit Center: Put as Many People in Jail as Possible

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http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/thom-hartmann-what-do-you-do-when-you-no-longer-need-your

What does America do when she no longer needs her slaves or surplus workers?

The 1880’s reconstruction era was the first time in our history that America had seen a large surplus of non-white labor.

In the 1870’s many former slaves were integrated into the labor force, but white backlash in the 1880’s and 1890’s led to a permanent underclass through nearly a century of “separate but equal.”

For very different reasons, there was a similar surplus of white labor in the early 1930’s.

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1. Also helps with voter disenfranchisement with a ton of felon dope smokers as well...

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2. It's fascinating to me that the Democrats support this

Since by far the strongest single voting bloc the Democrats have is the black community and the Drug War disenfranchises a huge percentage of that community.

Without the Drug War Gore would handily have had enough votes to prevail in Florida, it never would have been close enough for Dubya to steal.

It really doesn't make any sense unless the Democrats are playing mostly to lose.

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3. Unless.

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4. Gives a new meaning to Reganomic's "trickle down theory".

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5. k/r