When We Get You Down, STAY DOWN! Blue dogs help Rethugs Get the Message across
"On January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail.[16][17]
In 2008 approximately one in every 31 adults (7.3 million) in the United States was behind bars, or being monitored (probation and parole). In 2008 the breakdown for adults under correctional control was as follows: one out of 18 men, one in 89 women, one in 11 African-Americans (9.2 percent), one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent), and one in 45 Caucasians (2.2 percent). Crime rates have increased by about 25 percent from 1988 to 2008.[18] In recent decades the U.S. has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the "war on drugs." Violent crime and property crime have declined since the early 1990s.[19]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
"At the moment, EEOC "guidance" does not have the force of law, no matter the threats from top EEOC officials. That's where Debo Adegbile comes in. When he was with the NAACP, Adegbile praised the commission's guidelines. Now, if he becomes the assistant attorney general for civil rights, he will have the power to pursue the same or similar policies.
In written questions, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Adegbile whether he would, if confirmed, "take action to abridge or eliminate an employer's ability to perform criminal background checks on potential employees." Adegbile embraced the EEOC position and suggested it would guide his own actions in the Justice Department. "If employers do perform background checks, the EEOC has released guidance on the subject," he told Grassley."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/04/right-wing-medias-eleventh-hour-smear-of-civil/198336
Debo Adegbile made it clear that he would go after the use of "background checks" as a means of discrimination. That was enough to send the wingnuts off the deep end. Not only that, Mr. Adegbile "STOPPED THEM FROM EXECUTING A BLACK MAN! WHO THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS?!!"
If you look at the graph in the wiki entry on incarceration in America, you will see that the number of incarcerated has risen NEARLY VERTICALLY NON STOP SINCE RONALD REAGAN WAS ELECTED.
The game is rigged. Any time attempt toward real, positive change is taken, as with the Adegbile nomination, enough Democrats will join republicans to stop the progress and maintain the status quo.
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