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Bernie Sanders promises to free half a million prisoners in first term
Yahoo Politics ^ | 2/12 | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 02/12/2016 11:39:56 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

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To: TangledUpInBlue

Only if he puts them all in Vermont.


21 posted on 02/12/2016 11:56:41 AM PST by The Unknown Republican
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To: TangledUpInBlue

And they’ll still vote for him.


22 posted on 02/12/2016 11:56:45 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: rbg81

Yup, its poverty, a broken childhood, lack of jobs, or whatever excuse lets a career criminal off the hook.

Its always society’s fault. Which is exactly what Bernie just told us.


23 posted on 02/12/2016 11:57:07 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

His proposals would actually hurt Black America.

Most Democratic proposals hurt Black America (or some subgroup of it). So long as they can also keep most of Black America trapped in the public school system, they can probably keep getting away with it. If Black leaders had the interests of Black America at heart, there would have been rioting over Obama removing people's school voucher rights rather than riots over black kids killed by cops.

Bad schooling is destroying a lot more black lives than the number of people killed by cops, even if you include all the non-blacks people cops kill, and even if you assume everyone cops kill is totally innocent (which is clearly not the case).

24 posted on 02/12/2016 11:58:31 AM PST by Amity
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I wonder if he just lost the votes of 500,000 crime victims?


25 posted on 02/12/2016 12:02:26 PM PST by jimmygrace
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To: TangledUpInBlue
The U.S. imprisons about 2.2 million people, making the country the world's biggest jailer by far. China, which comes in second, jails 1.7 million people.

Then again, according to AmnestyUSA, China carries out more executions than the rest of the world put together

26 posted on 02/12/2016 12:03:36 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
White liberal elite "pander" for the black vote: "YES, WE WILL LET MILLIONS OF BLACK CRIMINALS OUT OF PRISON...."

Is that creepy or what?

A 'pander' about letting criminals out of prison is a 'vote getter' for democrats?

That's right up there with 'you can kill your baby on it's due date' if you vote for us"

I'm so thankful I'm NOT a liberal elite...

27 posted on 02/12/2016 12:04:13 PM PST by GOPJ (Allowing illegals to stay is like paying ransom to terrorists - incentivized insanity.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue; Liz; sickoflibs
White liberal elite "pander" for the black vote: "YES, WE WILL LET MILLIONS OF BLACK CRIMINALS OUT OF PRISON...."

Is that creepy or what?

A 'pander' about letting criminals out of prison is a 'vote getter' for democrats?

That's right up there with 'you can kill your baby on it's due date' if you vote for us"

I'm so thankful I'm NOT a liberal elite...

28 posted on 02/12/2016 12:04:49 PM PST by GOPJ (Allowing illegals to stay is like paying ransom to terrorists - incentivized insanity.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

unemployment closer to 37% done by taking all those able to work and subtracting all those working - higher if part timers and seasonal thrown out.

Not 95% but definitely close to 45% are pick one: poorly educated and ignorant, stupid, don’t care, just want their side to win, vote most attractive candidate, or would really like to subjugate the masses.


29 posted on 02/12/2016 12:08:18 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: C210N

Yup. If China didn’t use things like summary executions they’d have a MUCH higher incarceration rate/numbers than we have.


30 posted on 02/12/2016 12:10:52 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: goldstategop

What really hurts Black America - what’s that? aren’t we supposed to be one county? - are things that cannot be talked about by non-black people and black people give a pass to while calling any honky blue-eye a racist for broaching the subject.


31 posted on 02/12/2016 12:12:10 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Great- They should go and live next door to HIM!!


32 posted on 02/12/2016 12:19:26 PM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: C210N

China doesn’t have 40 million Negros.


33 posted on 02/12/2016 12:31:09 PM PST by EEGator
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Better stock up on ammo now.


34 posted on 02/12/2016 12:32:16 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: baltimorepoet

Not a bad idea. I’m sure it would be cheaper.


35 posted on 02/12/2016 12:33:31 PM PST by refermech
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To: Huskrrrr
Free the prisoners and punish the taxpayers. Right.

I can live with it. So long as the rule is that nobody goes to prison, we can just kill troublemakers and not worry about being incarcerated ourselves.

That's actually not a bad solution, and one that I think we are inching towards with each passing year.

36 posted on 02/12/2016 12:37:35 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Is that before or after he has Billy-Boy Ayers start to supevise killing off the 25 million or so of us who can’t be reeducated?


37 posted on 02/12/2016 12:38:56 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

According to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, the federal government currently has 195,730 inmates in federal prison.

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/population_statistics.jsp

These are the *only* inmates whose sentences can by pardoned or commuted by the POTUS. That is, unless the federal courts convict some 304,270 people during his term in office, which he immediately pardons.


38 posted on 02/12/2016 12:53:47 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He might exceed Obama’s gun sales records?


39 posted on 02/12/2016 12:58:43 PM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: TangledUpInBlue

crimes and inmates - Texas

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-prisons/crimes/


40 posted on 02/12/2016 1:01:56 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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