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In article , azjohn
wrote:
Jim Crow and the Crackers are baaack.
What is neo-liberalism?
1. THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating "free" enterprise or private
enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no
matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to
international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by
de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers' rights that had been won
over many years of struggle. No more price controls. All in all, total
freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. To convince us this
is good for us, they say "an unregulated market is the best way to
increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone." It's
like Reagan's "supply-side" and "trickle-down" economics -- but somehow
the wealth didn't trickle down very much.
2. CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and
health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance
of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing
government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and
tax benefits for business.
3. DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that
could diminsh profits, including protecting the environmentand safety on
the job.
4. PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to
private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll
highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although
usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed,
privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even
more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs.
5. ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and
replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest
people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care,
education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if
they fail, as "lazy."
The above was inflicted by Western industrial countries on "Developing"
countries under the IMF scheme called Structural Adjustment Programs
(SAP).
Key Points of SAP
The U.S. leverages its dominant role in the global economy and in
the IFIs to impose SAPs on Third World countries, and open their markets
to competition from U.S. companies. (Like NAFTA did, or the presently
debated Trans-Pacific Partnership will, which Paul Craig Roberts,
former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department in the Reagan
administration, says will result in global privilege for the corporate
class as a class immune to government regulation.)
SAPs are based on a short-term, profit-maximization model that
perpetuates poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation.
Social safety nets and good governance reforms do not compensate for
the serious flaws that SAPs introduce by deregulating laws and
diminishing the statešs capacity to protect the welfare of its citizens.
--
The point of the above exposition is that it was tried out on other
countries, weaker countries, before it was used on the First World.
Now to the point. Black people in America are being kept second class
citizens, and robbed of their Constitutional rights in order to reduce
democracy, and serve the Federal Prison Industries (Unicor) as cheap
labor.
Although the majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are
white, three-fourths of all people imprisoned for drug offenses have
been black or Latino.
[R]ates and patterns of drug crime do not explain the glaring racial
disparities in our criminal justice system. People of all races use and
sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. If there are significant
differences in the surveys to be found,they frequently suggest that
whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in illegal
drug dealing than people of color.'' One study, for example, published
in 2000 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that white
students use cocaine at seven times the rate of black students, use
crack cocaine at eight times the rate of black students, and use heroin
at seven times the rate of black students. That same survey revealed that
nearly identical percentages of white and black high school seniors use
marijuana. The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported in 2000
that white youth aged 12-17 are more than a third more likely to have
sold illegal drugs than African American youth. Thus the very same
year Human Rights Watch was reporting that African Americans were being
arrested and 'imprisoned at unprecedented rates, government data
revealed that blacks were no more likely to be guilty of drug crimes
than whites and that white youth were actually the most likely of any
racial or ethnic group to be guilty of illegal drug possession and
sales. Any notion that drug use among blacks is more severe or dangerous
is belied by the data; white youth have about three times the number of
drug-related emergency room visits as their African American
counterparts.
The racial bias inherent in the drug war is a major reason that 1 in
every 14 black men was behind bars in 2006, compared with 1 in 106 white
men. For young black men, the statistics are even worse. One in 9 black
men between the ages of twenty and thirty-five was behind bars in 2006,
and far more were under some form of penal control--such as probation or
parole. These gross racial disparities simply cannot be explained by
rates of illegal drug activity among African Americans, but they can be
explained by arbitrary enforcement by officers and prosecutors seeking
Federal financial backing which comes with arrests. Arrests, that if
they were made in "white" communities would cause a ferocious, political
backlash.
Being convicted of a felony results in being barred from public housing
by law, discriminated against by private landlords, ineligible for food
stamps, forced to "check the box" indicating a felony conviction on
employment applications for nearly every job, and denied licenses for a
wide range of professions, people whose only crime is drug addiction or
possession of a small amount of drugs for recreational use find
themselves locked out of the mainstream society and economypermanently.
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
(Available at a library near you.)
p. 92 - 98
Good you say. Get those drug addicts off the streets, but . . .
The American citizens, like the frogs in the slowly heating pot, seem
unaware that the same stop-and-frisk rule, the Terry v. Ohio decision
stands for, the proposition that, so long as a police officer has
"reasonable articulable suspicion" that someone is engaged in criminal
activity and dangerous, it is constitutionally permissible to stop,
question, and frisk him or her--even in the absence of probable cause,
can be applied to ANYONE!
Neo-liberalism started in the Third World, and now it's in the First
World.
Our phones are already tapped. Our emails are read. Our credit card
purchases, and grocery card purchases can tell what we eat and drink, or
read. We can be located, and eavesdropped on by our telephones. We can
be watched through our computer camcorders. Our "smart" electric meters
track our domestic habits. Soon we will have drones watching us from
over head. "Stop and Search" started with mostly people of color, but it
could be coming to a street near you soon. How long before the
government starts picking up dissidents?
Our government is supposed to establish Justice, insure domestic
Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity. I don't see anything in there that says we have to bailout
fraudulent bankers, start vanity wars, or poison the populous with
pollution from air, water, and food.
Hellooooooo . . . .
--
Welcome to the New America.
or
E Pluribus Unum
Green Party Nominee Jill Stein & Running Mate, Cheri Honkala
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