40 reasons why our jails are full of Black and Poor people

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63. Plundering taxpayers for exec. salaries and $ for corrupt complicit pols, legislators,

judges and lobbyists is broad and in place now after 30 years. Systems that were once publically operated with low overhead, like hospitals, health ins., medical care, prisons, and public schools are now converting to private, for profit operations- privatization of all, the neoliberal mission.

Financiers will sniff out and try to raid any funds, any where, and especially the public's, often with buy-partisan support. Bank titan Pete Peterson has spent decades and millions trying to break into the Social Security Trust fund- since that money should go to elites, not the people!

News giant Rupert Murdock who knows nothing of education, encouraged the continued race to the trough of K-12 US public education funds in 2011 when he rang the bell, "there's a $500 billion sector that is desperately waiting to be transformed!" (raided). Right, into private, for profit voucher schools without teachers unions and under the direction of neoliberal corporatists like Arne Duncan, Sec. of Education, the Waltons, the Bradley Fnd., Gates and Michelle Rhee.

So rather than educate, employ and treat, we incarcerate, exploit and ruin, based on race, class, illness and vulnerability. Prisoners should have a BA, the least that can be done, also a job when they leave. Expunge records for all released, and soon to be released with non violent offense records. This while the effing system is being broken down. What an injustice to the people, their families and communities.

Murdock's pronouncement on public education, 2011
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/rupert-murdoch-news-corp-wireless-generation-education