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Obama: Too many folks in our prisons
investors.com ^ | Oct. 31, 2015 | ANDREW MALCOLM

Posted on 10/31/2015 10:11:02 AM PDT by PROCON

President Obama's weekly remarks

Hi, everybody. Today, there are 2.2 million people behind bars in America and millions more on parole or probation. Every year, we spend $80 billion in taxpayer dollars to keep people incarcerated. Many are non-violent offenders serving unnecessarily long sentences.

I believe we can disrupt the pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails. I believe we can address the disparities in the application of criminal justice, from arrest rates to sentencing to incarceration. And I believe we can help those who have served their time and earned a second chance get the support they need to become productive members of society.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bama; crime; prisons
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Another narcissistic dictator called the population-The Folk!


21 posted on 10/31/2015 10:20:52 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: PROCON

Translation of the negro community organizer from Chicago remarks; “too many blacks in jail.” By the way since the massive release from various jails crime has spiked.


22 posted on 10/31/2015 10:21:33 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: PROCON
“...underfunded schools”

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Yeah, that's it. Raise taxes or impose new ones in the name of funding schools and that will solve everything.

Only it doesn't. “Funding schools” is code for giving raises to already overpaid, underworked, unionized teachers, some of whom are as dumb as rocks, and who couldn't teach their way out of a paper bag. This constant plunder of already financially strapped families is not about education. It's about bringing in more money for teachers, officials and Democrats to divvy up. Meanwhile, these children graduate with their heads full of commie mush, but they can't read, write or do math sufficiently to hold down a job. No wonder they turn to crime.

23 posted on 10/31/2015 10:21:50 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: PROCON
So, says King Obama, we will just put the killers, rapist, and hard core felonies back on the street so they can do it again. And when this mob causes enough destruction I can declare martial law and get another term. How smart am I? With my army of communists Democrats at my side, how can I lose.
24 posted on 10/31/2015 10:21:51 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Sioux-san

Leftists have more sympathy for criminals than for the law-abiding. Why? Because successful Leftists steal money, just like criminals, but they can use the force of Government to get our money!


25 posted on 10/31/2015 10:21:51 AM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: PapaBear3625

“I have a solution to too many prisoners. Stop taking prisoners.”

PapaBear wins the Internets, Today! :)


26 posted on 10/31/2015 10:22:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: PROCON
Right Barry. Our criminals need to be out on the streets killing, raping and robbing. It's a waste of their "gun violence" talents to lock them up in prison. Let's put the guns in prison.

sarc/

The Xenos and freeloaders have put a retard in the White House. I am so ashamed of what my country has become in the past seven years. A joke. A friggin' joke.

27 posted on 10/31/2015 10:22:40 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Have you ever noticed that we don't have a "Battle Hymm of the Democracy"?)
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To: PROCON

Idiot! They are not folks, the are convicted felons.

I have spent almost fifty years on this planet and have never been accused, indicted, tried or convicted of a felony of any kind. Reason being is that I haven’t committed one!

I have been in desperate economic times, this time among them. Yet, somehow I have weathered the storm without committing a felony. Why should we feel sorry for those who have? After all, it is very rare that a person is captured the first timer they commit a felony!

They are in prison for a reason, they have the ability to get out and straighten up in the future, but they have their debt to pay.

Just wait! This Black Bastard is going to release thousands of convicted felons through his ability to commute and pardon criminals. I predict fifty to sixty thousand in order to punish the American people for not demanding he remain president for life!


28 posted on 10/31/2015 10:22:47 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: PROCON

obama has done so much wrong... has done nothing right.. and it’s evident everywhere!

He has given a pass to anyone in his sphere. Give a wink or a nod to kids of all ages, and they will do exactly what is given that wink and nod.

obama is the reason police are afraid to get out of their cars. obama is the reason crime has escalated.

His kind know he will not prosecute and they know it’s okay to stir up trouble. obama appears at their funerals and speaks out the wrong side of his mouth.

When he said he was the one they were waiting for... he meant he was the one who would bring retribution to the white race.. and he’s stirred up a hornets nest... and thinks he’s God’s gift to the United States.


29 posted on 10/31/2015 10:23:04 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: PROCON
I believe we can disrupt the pipeline from underfunded schools

BS. Inner city schools are getting $14K and more per student. It is patently obvious that the money is being diverted to someone other than the student.

This is like paying thousands for your wedding reception dinner and getting served hot dogs.

30 posted on 10/31/2015 10:23:58 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: PROCON

Next step for those who have “served their time & earned
a second chance”: right to vote


31 posted on 10/31/2015 10:24:12 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: PROCON

No MR. Obammy, there are too few in prison .. Like you.


32 posted on 10/31/2015 10:24:15 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: PROCON

There are too many criminals in prison and not enough ‘RAT politicians and federal agency supervisors, right Barry?!


33 posted on 10/31/2015 10:25:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Have you ever noticed that we don't have a "Battle Hymm of the Democracy"?)
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To: PROCON

By all means...release them. Let them go back and terrorize their neighborhoods and, of course, vote.

The cost of keeping them locked up pales in comparison to the cost of the resulting chaos following their release.


34 posted on 10/31/2015 10:25:05 AM PDT by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: Lizavetta

BS. Inner city schools are getting $14K and more per student. It is patently obvious that the money is being diverted to someone other than the student.


1. Patronage jobs (administrators)
2. Pensions


35 posted on 10/31/2015 10:26:10 AM PDT by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: PROCON

Is there anything this President actually LIKES about his country? All I hear from him are negatives. Maybe I’m missing something but all I hear from him are complaints and negativity. Has anyone heard him EVER say anything good about America? I seriously want to know.


36 posted on 10/31/2015 10:26:23 AM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: oldbrowser

Obama: Too many folks in our prisons
Translation:
LET MY PEOPLE GO


37 posted on 10/31/2015 10:27:26 AM PDT by Recompennation
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To: Sioux-san

There are any number of former democrats on our boards but you are correct - once a post-modern “liberal” true-believer, always a true believer. The only fix for them is a bullet.

“I didn’t leave the democrat party...the democrat party left me” - Ronald Reagan


38 posted on 10/31/2015 10:27:31 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Sioux-san

But Obama never even developed into a world class leftist. He stayed small time.


39 posted on 10/31/2015 10:27:46 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: PROCON

Leftists are not content just to take your money and property. They will jeopardize your safety if it can buy a few more votes.


40 posted on 10/31/2015 10:28:42 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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