Barack Obama has a weed problem

[woo me with science]

14. Election season.

There is always a leftward pivot in rhetoric during Presidential or midterm elections. It's as dishonest as it is predictable.

FIVE YEARS into his Presidency, and the best he can do is equate marijuana with alcohol(!) in a speech...just before midterm elections.

FIVE YEARS IN, and the Obama Justice Dept. was conducting marijuana raids as recently as *November* in Colorado. They have been all over the map on this issue rhetorically, but their actions have been an embarrassment over and over and over again. There are midterm elections coming up, so of course we hear the old marijuana promises, again. And the promises won't hold, again. You know why? Because Third Way Democrats are in bed with private prison corporations that depend on these authoritarian policies in order to meet their promises to shareholders.

FIVE YEARS IN. Watch the actions, not the words.
It *always* boils down to corporate profit.

Private prisons are being expanded rapidly under corporate government.

Government guarantees 90% occupancy rate to private prison corporations, regardless of crime rate.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2569173

Poor minorities are worthless to corporations on the street. In prison they can bring in $40,000/yr
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023368969

Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014158005

The Caging of America - Why do we lock up so many people
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002226110

Private Prisons Spend Millions On Lobbying To Put More People In Jail - Marijuana Laws
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002320974

Keeping private prisons profitable through marijuana laws
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1107761

The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002590524

The Obama administration is aggressively growing private prisons
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022568681

Obama's 2013 budget: One area of marked growth, the prison industrial complex
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1002392306

Obama selects the owner of a private prison consulting firm as the new Director of the United States Marshals Service (USMS)
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/12/mars-d03.html

Private prison corporations move up on list on federal contractors, receiving BILLIONS
http://www.nationofchange.org/president-obama-s-incarcernation-1335274655

Federal Private Prison Populations Grew by 784% in 10 Year Span
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024361745#post39

Prison Labor Booms As Unemployment Remains High; Companies Reap Benefits
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/prison-labor_n_2272036.html

Private Prison Corporation's Letters to Shareholders Reveal Industry's Tactics: Profiting from Human Incarceration
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022665091

Financial growth of private prison industry...Profiting from caging humans.

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