Creative New Techniques 4 Torturing the Poor
Aug 18, 2015 13:38:57 #
If I recall Alternet allows just 2 Paragraphs and then there is the link...here is hoping you see enough to interest you.
Economy
6 Creative New Techniques Republicans Have Developed for Torturing the Poor
Republican-controlled states are sharpening their fight against the poor, and then paralyzing their attempts to fight back.
By David Masciotra / AlterNet
August 10, 2015
In the 1960s, the Lyndon Johnson administration launched an official War on Poverty. Needless to say, poverty has emerged victorious. The noble and necessary aim of poverty reduction might have helped millions of people create lives of decency and dignity, and it might have helped America assimilate into the developed world as a fiscally responsible and morally honorable nation. But since they fail to narrow the profit margin of the corporate class running Americas political system, poverty reduction programs are basically doomed.
The following laws and policies give painful illustration to Americas attack on the poor in which the impoverished receive perpetual punishment for their poverty. This compilation does not include the mile-long list of policies that harm the poor, such as difficulty acquiring health care and child care, regressive taxation, or the cost of college. The following are policies in which state governments are actively levying the legal system against the poor.
1. Limits on ATM Withdrawals for Welfare Recipients in Kansas
Governor Sam Brownback and his supporters in the state legislature of Kansas have turned their state into dystopian inspiration for a post-apocalyptic thriller, slashing social s
2. Revocation of Drivers License in Iowa For Missing Student Loan Payments
3. Arkansas Arrests and Prosecutes People for Missing Rent Payments
Violation of Failure to Vacate will also appear on the tenants criminal record. If a tenant fails to pay rent on time, the landlord instructs them to leave the premises, and the tenant is still present after a grace period of 10 days, the tenant falls onto the vicious mercies of the draconian criminal justice system. One missed paycheck, one unexpected expense or one pink slip, and 10 days is all that separates poor renters in Arkansas from imprisonment and a criminal record.
4. Using the Poor as ATMs: Harsh Financial Penalties for Minor Infractions and Traffic Violations
5. The Return of Debtors Prisons
6. Voter Identification Requirements Suppress Poor Peoples Votes
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The ongoing transformation of the criminal justice system into a harassment and exploitation enterprise targeting the least of these, to use Biblical language, exposes America as a nation not only indifferent to the suffering of the poor, but enthusiastic in its commitment to enhance that suffering.
David Masciotra is the author of Mellencamp: American Troubadour (University Press of Kentucky). He has also written for Salon, the Atlantic and the Los Angeles Review of Books. For more information visit www.davidmasciotra.com.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/6-creative-new-techniques-republicans-have-developed-torturing-poor
Economy
6 Creative New Techniques Republicans Have Developed for Torturing the Poor
Republican-controlled states are sharpening their fight against the poor, and then paralyzing their attempts to fight back.
By David Masciotra / AlterNet
August 10, 2015
In the 1960s, the Lyndon Johnson administration launched an official War on Poverty. Needless to say, poverty has emerged victorious. The noble and necessary aim of poverty reduction might have helped millions of people create lives of decency and dignity, and it might have helped America assimilate into the developed world as a fiscally responsible and morally honorable nation. But since they fail to narrow the profit margin of the corporate class running Americas political system, poverty reduction programs are basically doomed.
The following laws and policies give painful illustration to Americas attack on the poor in which the impoverished receive perpetual punishment for their poverty. This compilation does not include the mile-long list of policies that harm the poor, such as difficulty acquiring health care and child care, regressive taxation, or the cost of college. The following are policies in which state governments are actively levying the legal system against the poor.
1. Limits on ATM Withdrawals for Welfare Recipients in Kansas
Governor Sam Brownback and his supporters in the state legislature of Kansas have turned their state into dystopian inspiration for a post-apocalyptic thriller, slashing social s
2. Revocation of Drivers License in Iowa For Missing Student Loan Payments
3. Arkansas Arrests and Prosecutes People for Missing Rent Payments
Violation of Failure to Vacate will also appear on the tenants criminal record. If a tenant fails to pay rent on time, the landlord instructs them to leave the premises, and the tenant is still present after a grace period of 10 days, the tenant falls onto the vicious mercies of the draconian criminal justice system. One missed paycheck, one unexpected expense or one pink slip, and 10 days is all that separates poor renters in Arkansas from imprisonment and a criminal record.
4. Using the Poor as ATMs: Harsh Financial Penalties for Minor Infractions and Traffic Violations
5. The Return of Debtors Prisons
6. Voter Identification Requirements Suppress Poor Peoples Votes
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The ongoing transformation of the criminal justice system into a harassment and exploitation enterprise targeting the least of these, to use Biblical language, exposes America as a nation not only indifferent to the suffering of the poor, but enthusiastic in its commitment to enhance that suffering.
David Masciotra is the author of Mellencamp: American Troubadour (University Press of Kentucky). He has also written for Salon, the Atlantic and the Los Angeles Review of Books. For more information visit www.davidmasciotra.com.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/6-creative-new-techniques-republicans-have-developed-torturing-poor
Aug 19, 2015 12:29:11 #
There are many ways to practice genocide. You have named four. It will be interesting to see when this country tires of torturing the poor and turns its' attention to the middle class how well they handle it. We kill our poor, we just do it slowly and blame the victim.
Aug 20, 2015 06:06:57 #
She Wolf wrote:
There are many ways to practice genocide. You have named four. It will be interesting to see when this country tires of torturing the poor and turns its' attention to the middle class how well they handle it. We kill our poor, we just do it slowly and blame the victim.
It seems that those who only had a fingernail hold on the middle class have often drifted into the working poor segment of society.
It's no wonder Trump is so fascinating to people, he promises the impossible dream.
Aug 21, 2015 12:37:00 #
I know this is vile but I would love to see the people who condemn the poor in this country become the poor. Trump is a sound bite nothing more. You would think after all the promises made and broken in the last election these people would learn they are but pawns. Oh well as my Grandmother always said:
Ignorance can be educated.
Mental Illness can be medicated.
Not a damn thing you can do about stupid.
Ignorance can be educated.
Mental Illness can be medicated.
Not a damn thing you can do about stupid.
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