A good proportion of those in prison are there for drug offenses, many minor. Fully half of federal prisoners are drug offenders, and about 1/6 of those in state prison.
As for allowing women and minorities to vote...things were not better before that happened. Read some history, please.
I know Texas history is required in Texas; how can anyone in this state think that Anglos alone are responsible for establishing Texas? As for the rest of the country, Florida, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Texas were all Spanish developed territories. There were...
Texas has a very bad reputation for putting the innocent away. Here where I live, a man spent 25 years in jail for killing his wife. There was prosecutorial miscounduct, botched evidence and a da that refused to test evidence. The real killer killed at least once more, and an innocent man...
The Fed is about $100 years old, and our dollar is about 220 years old. So we have had a "Federal Reserve" for almost half of our money's history. I don't think it is going away.
I get a little tired of the same stories about elected officials compensation and retirement benefits. They do not 100% of their final salary, the do not get it if they have only served 4 years, etc...here it is in black and white...
Whew...where to start.
ETB/SNAP is limited. Just because you can't see a disability, doesn't mean it isn't there. Most people who qualify for SNAP are working. People working full-time minimum wage jobs still qualify for SNAP.
If only some people are allowed to have kids, who gets to...