BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Bill Moyers on The Forgotten | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/billmoyers Bill Moyers reflects on the new administration and the forgotten Americans. Bill Moyers Journal airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). For more: http://www.pbs.org/billmoyers

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News & Politics

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• education
• obama
• poverty
• prisons

[delerium2k]

The problem is that Americans haven't kept checks on their government for the last hundred or so years. In that time what was supposed to be 'limited gov't' grew to monstrous proportions. Today Americans don't enjoy democracy, they enjoy the ability to choose between two status quo parties that co-dominate the country. The party's over now, with $50+ trillion in obligations and trillions more in debt the glorious empire is now bankrupt. Time for the fall, and subsequent renewal.

[777CARL777]

The reason 1 in ten are in jail is because of our unfair and racist drug laws. End the war on personal freedom to choose! Stop this insanity!!!

[chone7]

Jail is like a cartel, banks are the cartels, gov is a cartel, pharmaceutical drugs are from the cartel's, wake up people...

[SkyDaddy7]

Its folks like yourself who refuse to understand there is a problem and we can do something about it if we want to. Pie in the sky types are who founded this great nation when they were told the idea of America would not work...So, sit around bitchin & moanin because you were a victim and by all means do not try and help!

[tashikiloo2]

3:27 to 3:45 are very well stated...

[thermalfreek]

Bill Moyers Rules!!!

[Icix1]

No, it's because people fear and don't understand drugs, not because of some incredibly racist agenda. And yeah, most of the people that are in jail sell drugs because of the money, not because of the drug effect. These aren't entrepreneurs, these are thugs looking for cash. And there's a reason drugs like heroine and crack are illegal. The drugs that Astra Zeneca make lower blood pressure. The drugs that are sold on the street are purely for recreational use.

[arequipa1]

spinach: i already know practically all there is to know. and having been the victim of crime in the past, i have no sympathy whatsoever for those who choose to commit crimes. unfortunately a lot of the PBS-watching crowd is the pie in the sky type who wouldn't be realistic if reality bit them in the butt.

[arequipa1]

sorry but the people in prison aren't "entrepreneuring black pharmacists." to think so is INCREDIBLY naive.

[FiliusVeritatis]

Indeed you're right: prisoners are in prison for a reason, and that reason is in many cases that we live under a fascist government that has deprived us of our liberty because none of us are man enough to stand up to it. And I agree with you in that I too would rather not pay for the luxury of a villainous man who has earned his board in white-collar resort prison for stealing 50 million dollars from decent people who worked for his company for 25 years.

[FiliusVeritatis]

To say, "Inhumane prisons that rob the liberty and lives of millions are permissable because prison isn't supposed to be a nice place" is logically invalid, because by that logic, one could just as easily say, "The Holocaust was permissable because prison isn't supposed to be a nice place."

[FiliusVeritatis]

Drug laws are racist in that they rob the liberty of an entrepeneauring black pharmacist trying to bring his services to the poor while a rich white drug dealer at Astra Zeneca makes millions by the day in an air-conditioned office.