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The war on drugs started when I was in high school and that was a long time ago, it’s cost a trillion dollars and we spend 3+billion a year to keep people in prison for drug offenses.
Do you see that we’re winning, I don’t
Contrary to popular belief spending on police goes up every year and the results don’t improve.
It’s estimated that there’s 400 million guns owned by Americans and guns have been selling at a rate of over a million a month
Citizens United was 12 years ago today. It is the Patient Zero for most of our modern problems.
Twelve years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.
Billionaire wealth - all time high, up 70% since the pandemic
Corporate profits - all time high
Global inequality - highest in over 100 years
Fifty percent of the U.S. workforce earned less than $35,000 in 2019, according to the Social Security Administration.
Keep the big picture in mind whenever people say that giving workers a raise causes problems.
The increase in violent crime is largely in the items above and no it doesn’t have a simple answer
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