Laws R4 Rich

"ONE FOR YOU THE REST FOR ME. ONE FOR YOU THE REST FOR ME.

ONE FOR YOU, AND NOW YOU OWE ME THREE."

UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA TWO TIER LEGAL SYSTEM:

MASTAS = IMMUNITY

SLAVES = WRONGFUL CONVICTION

USA JUSTICE:

INNOCENT SLAVES = PLEAD GUILTY NIGGAZ = BAD GUYS

GUILTY MASTAS = IMMUNITY = LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS

"Law is Legal & Political Plunder."

The Law - Frederic Bastiat

https://sites.google.com/site/korruptlaw/home/books/The%20Law%20by%20Frederic%20Bastiat%20%28Hilites%29.rtf

"Law is vengeance. Law is injustice."

Cesare Beccaria

"Law is inequality"

"Aristotle, before any of them, had said that men are by no means equal naturally... a fact on which the whole social system should rest: i.e., that, instead of destroying natural inequality, the fundamental compact substitutes, for such physical inequality as nature may have set up between men, an equality that is moral and legitimate, and that men, who may be unequal in strength or intelligence, become every one equal by convention and legal right.

(Under bad governments, this equality is only apparent and illusory: it serves only to-keep the pauper in his poverty and the rich man in the position he has usurped. In fact, laws are always of use to those who possess and harmful to those who have nothing: from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all have something and none too much.)"

- Jean Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract, 1762)

"Law is Slavery"

Natural Law; or The Science of Justice:

by Lysander Spooner

https://sites.google.com/site/korruptlaw/home/books/Natural%20Law%20by%20Lysander%20Spooner.rtf?attredirects=0&d=1

CHAPTER III.

NATURAL LAW CONTRASTED WITH LEGISLATION.

(LAW AS PLUNDER AND TO ENSLAVE.

LEGISLATION IS TO MAINTAIN THE STATE OF SLAVERY.)

NL.3.2.5 "These tyrants, living solely on plunder, and on the labor of their slaves, and applying all their energies to the seizure of still more plunder, and the enslavement of still other defenceless persons; increasing, too, their numbers, perfecting their organizations, and multiplying their weapons of war, they extend their conquests until, in order to hold what they have already got, it becomes necessary for them to act systematically, and cooperate with each other in holding their slaves in subjection.

NL.3.2.6 But all this they can do only by establishing what they call a government, and making what they call laws."

"Section III.

NL.3.3.1 In process of time, the robber, or slaveholding, class—who had seized all the lands, and held all the means of creating wealth—began to discover that the easiest mode of managing their slaves, and making them proﬁtable, was not for each slaveholder to hold his speciﬁed number of slaves, as he had done before, and as he would hold so many cattle, but to give them so much liberty as would throw upon themselves (the slaves) the responsibility of their own subsistence, and yet compel them to sell their labor to the land-holding class—their former owners—for just what the latter might choose to give them.

NL.3.3.2 Of course, these liberated slaves, as some have erroneously called them, having no lands, or other property, and no means of obtaining an independent subsistence, had no alternative—to save themselves from starvation—but to sell their labor to the landholders, in exchange only for the coarsest necessaries of life; not always for so much even as that.

NL.3.3.3 These liberated slaves, as they were called, were now scarcely less slaves than they were before. Their means of subsistence were perhaps even more precarious than when each had his own owner, who had an interest to preserve his life. They were liable, at the caprice or interest of the landholders, to be thrown out of home, employment, and the opportunity of even earning a subsistence by their labor. They were, therefore, in large numbers, driven to the necessity of begging, stealing, or starving; and became, of course, dangerous to the property and quiet of their late masters.

NL.3.3.4 The consequence was, that these late owners found it necessary, for their own safety and the safety of their property, to organize themselves more perfectly as a government and make laws for keeping these dangerous people in subjection; that is, laws ﬁxing the prices at which they should be compelled to labor, and also prescribing fearful punishments, even death itself, for such thefts and trespasses as they were driven to commit, as their only means of saving themselves from starvation.

NL.3.3.5 These laws have continued in force for hundreds, and, in some countries, for thousands of years; and are in force to-day, in greater or less severity, in nearly all the countries on the globe.

NL.3.3.6 The purpose and effect of these laws have been to maintain, in the hands of the robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the great body of laborers in such a state of poverty and dependence, as would compel them to sell their labor to their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be sustained.

NL.3.3.7 The result of all this is, that the little wealth there is in the world is all in the hands of a few—that is, in the hands of the law-making, slave-holding class; who are now as much slaveholders in spirit as they ever were, but who accomplish their purposes by means of the laws they make for keeping the laborers in subjection and dependence, instead of each one’s owning his individual slaves as so many chattels.

NL.3.3.8 Thus the whole business of legislation, which has now grown to such gigantic proportions, had its origin in the conspiracies, which have always existed among the few, for the purpose of holding the many in subjection, and extorting from them their labor, and all the proﬁts of their labor.

NL.3.3.9 And the real motives and spirit which lie at the foundation of all legislation—notwithstanding all the pretences and disguises by which they attempt to hide themselves—are the same to-day as they always have been. They whole purpose of this legislation is simply to keep one class of men in subordination and servitude to another.

Section IV.

NL.3.4.1 What, then, is legislation? It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible dominion over all other men whom they call subject to their power. It is the assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to subject all other men to their will and their service. It is the assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to abolish outright all the natural rights, all the natural liberty of all other men; to make all other men their slaves; to arbitrarily dictate to all other men what they may, and may not, do; what they may, and may not, have; what they may, and may not, be. It is, in short, the assumption of a right to banish the principle of human rights, the principle of justice itself, from off the earth, and set up their own personal will, pleasure, and interest in its place. All this, and nothing less, is involved in the very idea that there can be any such thing as human legislation that is obligatory upon those upon whom it is imposed."

"Law is Slavery, Bribery, Favoritism, Denial of Rights, Usurpations, Fraud, ..."

Tacitus: Agricola

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Agricola

"Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance, they called civilization, when it was but a part of their servitude." -- Tacitus

Tacitus favorably contrasted the liberty of the native Britons to the corruption and tyranny of the Empire; the book also contains eloquent and vicious polemics against the rapacity and greed of Rome.

Tacitus: The Annals • The Histories

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html

Tacitus: The End of the Republic

http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/tacitus-ann1a.asp

(The Annals of Tacitus Book I)

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/1A*.html

2 When the killing of Brutus and Cassius had disarmed the Republic; when Pompey had been crushed in Sicily, and, with Lepidus thrown aside and Antony slain, even the Julian party was leaderless but for the Caesar; after laying down his triumviral title and proclaiming himself a simple consul content with tribunician authority to safeguard the commons, he first conciliated the army by gratuities, the populace by cheapened corn,º the world by the amenities of peace, then step by step began to make his ascent and to unite in his own person the functions of the senate, the magistracy, and the legislature. Opposition there was none: the boldest spirits had succumbed on stricken fields or by proscription-lists; while the rest of the nobility found a cheerful acceptance of slavery the smoothest road to wealth and office, and, as they had thriven on revolution, stood now for the new order and safety in preference to the old order and adventure. Nor was the state of affairs unpopular in the provinces, where administration by the Senate and People had been discredited by the feuds of the magnates and the greed of the officials, against which there was but frail protection in a legal system for ever deranged by force, by favouritism, or (in the last resort) by gold.

Tacitus:

"Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset."

Because they didn't know better, they called it "civilization," when it was part of their slavery.

Variant translation: Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude.

"Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant."

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

More colloquially: They rob, kill and plunder all under the deceiving name of Roman Rule. They make a desert and call it peace.

"A rich enemy excites their cupidity;

a poor one, their lust for power.

East and West alike have failed to satisfy them. They are the only people on earth to whose covetousness both riches and poverty are equally tempting.

To robbery, butchery and rapine, they give the lying name of 'government'; they create a desolation and call it peace...”

― Tacitus

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger.

... they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;

by ambition, if poor.

They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.” ― Tacitus

"Law is Usurpation, Tyranny, and Despotism"

"Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant." - Rousseau

Risks are socialized while profits are privatized.

Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the rest.

The Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Prison, 10th ed (2013)

http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/reiman.htm

Rich Get Richer - ... And the Poor Get Prison

http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/RichGetRicher/summary3.htm

CH3: The Rich Get Richer examines the processes by which our prisons and jails come to be predominately occupied by those from the lowest social and economic classes. Having argued in Ch 2 that the criminal law fails to prohibit many serious harms done by the powerful, we now argue that the Criminal Justice System 'weeds out the wealthy' and functions in such a way that the poor are 1.) more likely to be arrested 2.) more likely to be charged 3.) more likely to be convicted and 4.) more likely to be sentenced to longer prison sentences than members of middle and upper classes.

... it is the poor who are most likely to be arrested and have a criminal record. One argument is that at the very beginning of the road to prison, police mainly investigate and arrest those who hold the least political clout or who are least likely to draw attention to police practices - those in the lowest social and economic classes.

...calculate the cost of white collar crime at $486 billion and argue that white-collar crime 1.) is much more costly than street crimes 2.) is widespread 3.) white-collar criminals are seldom arrested and charged 4.) when they are prosecuted and convicted, sentences are light.

Ch 4: To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils: Who Is Winning the Losing War Against Crime?

http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/RichGetRicher/summary4.htm

Reiman points out that the laws of the state or nation are made to serve the interests of the powerful and not society as a whole. He demonstrates that those who both make and interpret the laws are from the upper class with strong connections to business. Recent events and history demonstrate how the criminal justice system is used to protect the interests of the powerful against the lower class and political dissenters. Ideology is not just deliberate deception, but includes a variety of ways the carnival mirror (Chapter 2) appears to be reflecting a real image rather than a distorted image (where street crime is magnified and corporate crime is diminished).

Laws shape the way people think about the world and naturalize the current arrangements. Also, the powerful have a prevailing say in what is heard and said about society because they control mass media outlets. [see also how corporate crime isn't covered on TV news] The images relayed by the mass media reinforce the message of dangerous poor people committing street crime because of individual pathology. The vast disparities in income and wealth can only be maintained when inequality is seen as justified.

Conclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice

http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/RichGetRicher/summary-conc.htm

Reiman wraps up his argument with the assertion that a criminal justice system is a just system only if it equally protects the interests and rights of all and that is equally punishes all who violate these rights or endanger these interests. When it does not, the system is criminal; the biased use of coercive power - police, courts, prisons - is violence. Reiman argues that the criminal justice system violates its own morally justifying ideas of equal protection and fairness.

Class, Race, Gender & Crime:

Social Realities of Justice in America

- Ch 2, Class

http://paulsjusticepage.com/reality-of-justice/ch2-class.htm

The Crime of Being Poor

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2003/jun/15/the-crime-of-being-poor/

...what are prisons for? First and foremost, they are tools of social control, a means by which political and economic elites can maintain and enhance their position of dominance over the lower and working classes. The $147 billion a year criminal justice system of police, prosecutors, courts and prisons is to domestic U.S. policy what the military and NATO is to U.S. foreign policy: a means of maintaining the political and economic status quo and crushing any challenges to the current state of affairs.

...the dirty secret of American politics: class.

...class war is already being waged on the poor and the criminal justice system is the primary weapon in this war.

...The not so surprising conclusion was that it is the poor, regardless of race, who bear the brunt of the war on crime, which sounds better than a "war on the poor." This explains why whites are in prisons and the relative absence of wealthy minorities from prisons and jails.

In America, the Law is Not King

http://www.yaliberty.org/yar/law

While the heavy hand of the law is used to incarcerate an increasing number of the poor and sentenced for increasingly long periods for even the most petty of crimes, this same rule of law is repeatedly abrogated in the name of protecting the very powerful of this country: the political and financial elites.

That this two-tiered justice system exists — one tier to protect powerful from any culpability in high crimes committed and the other to severely punish the powerless for the most minor of offenses — represents the deposition of law as king in America, according to Glenn Greenwald in his latest book With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.

Stop Kidding Yourself The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People

http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2014/12/29/stop-kidding-police-created-control-working-class-poor-people/

The poor used to have the most opportunity for growth in America.

Now the rich do.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/04/the-poor-used-to-have-the-most-opportunity-in-america-now-the-rich-do

Wage growth has collapsed for everyone but the top 1 percent over the past few decades.

Once upon a time, prosperity was so broadly shared that the bottom actually grew faster than the top. It was called "the 1960s."

You can see what this looked like in the chart above, taken from data in this paper by Roy van der Weide and Branko Milanovic http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/pdf/10.1596/1813-9450-6963 . It shows how much the bottom 10 and top 1 percent grew, adjusted for inflation, in both the 1960s, 1990s and 2000s. It seems almost impossible now, but the income of the poorest households -- the bottom 10 percent of them -- grew the fastest in JFK-era America, with the top 1 percent a little bit behind.

The result, as you can see in a little more detail below, is a world where income growth has collapsed for the bottom 80 percent, but reached new highs for the top 1 percent. And the 1990s, remember, were the good times for the middle class. Unemployment was as low as it's been in living memory, wage growth was, relatively-speaking, high, and the stock market was making everyone feel rich.

In the 2000s, wage growth was negative for a lot of people. The 1 percent slid a bit because of massive stock market losses in the 2008 financial crisis, but if the data were updated through 2014, they'd surely be booming again. The top 1 percent, after all, have gobbled up 95 percent of the recovery. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/11/how-the-1percent-won-the-recovery-in-one-table/

Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/prison-privatization_b_1414467.html

Valley Jails Are Doing A Booming Business

http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/25069984/valley-jails-are-doing-a-booming-business

The business of housing prisoners in the Red River Valley is booming. When Crookston's, Northwest Regional Corrections Center opened in 2008, it averaged 115 prisoners a day. Now, officials say the numbers are flirting with its capacity of 200 prisoners a day. It may not be a great reflection on our society, but those added prisoners bring in extra money to help foot the 10-million dollar a year budget of this jail. In fact, Greer says they expect to bring in 1-million dollars this year, housing federal, and prisoners from other counties.

“By giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.”

-Abe Lincoln

Annual message to Congress a month before issuing the final proclamation

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

Modern Slavery

The True Cost: Why the Private Prison Industry is About so Much More Than Prisons

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/features/privatization/two

Corporate financial incentives to shuttle people into the criminal justice system may seem to conflict with intensifying bipartisan concerns around America’s role as the most incarcerated nation on earth. But private prison companies can prosper whether the incarceration rate expands or lowers, by controlling the other ends of the pipeline, from pre-trial supervision to post-prison re-entry....

"This declared indifference, but, as I must think, covert, real zeal, for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world, enables the enemies of free institutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites, causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many good men among ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty, criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest."

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech, Oct. 16, 1854

Hillary Clinton's speech and other remarks from DNC’s final day

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/ap-fact-check-hillary-clintons-dnc-acceptance-speech

The top 1 percent captured 52 percent of the growth in incomes from 2009 through 2015, still a hefty amount. But that’s down from the 2009 through 2012 period, when the top 1 percent captured 91 percent of the growth.

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cause me to tremble for safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic destroyed."

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864

"The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards... I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on."

--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, October 28,1785. ME 19:17, Papers 8:682

Corporate Welfare vs. Social Welfare Programs:

http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/

About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.

However, the largest fraction of corporate welfare spending, about 40%, went through the Department of Agriculture, most of it in the form of farm subsidies.

Government payments to farmers are expected to total $10.6 billion in 2011. Roughly $4.7 billion—or 44 percent—of these payments are in the form of a “direct payment”—payments that do not vary with current prices or crop yields and for which a crop is not necessarily produced.

Richer Farmers, Bigger Subsidies

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/richer-farmers-bigger-subsidies.html?_r=0

It’s hard to imagine a more widely reviled piece of legislation than the nearly $1 trillion farm bill. Its widely ridiculed handouts to wealthy farmers and perverse incentives have long united liberals concerned about the environment, conservatives upset about the deficit and market-distorting subsidies, and just about everyone concerned about basic fairness.

What Happened When New Zealand Got Rid of Government Subsidies for Farmers

http://dailysignal.com/2016/09/22/what-happened-when-new-zealand-got-rid-of-government-subsidies-for-farmers

It has been more than 20 years since a left-leaning government in New Zealand chose to eliminate government subsidies for farmers.

Work Harder Slaves.

Millionaires on Welfare are counting on it.

How do you think they got to be Millionaires? They did it with your money. You the Slave allowed the rich to use Legal and Political Plunder to steal the money you worked for to pay your Masters.

One such Farm Bill Ripoff was the Government paid Farmers based on total acreage regardless if they farmed it, or not in addition to the other monies they made from the land by farming the land, or not. The more land the Farmer had the more money the Government freely gave to Farmers.

It worked like this: one Farmer owns 2,000 acres. The Government paid this Farmer $300 per acre for a total of $600,000 per year every year of free money the Farmer did not have to repay it. In addition the Farmer also receives other monies from the other Farm Programs, Insurance Payments, Plus money the Farmer receives from the crops they grow, etc.... Since the payments were based on Acreage the Farmer has the Farmers would take the money and go buy more land so that the next year the 2,000 acres the Farmer had grew to say 3,000 acres for a total of $900,000 the Government payed that Farmer. The Farmer buys more land the next year so he had 4,000 acres for a total of $1,200,000 the Government paid the Farmer, Free money freely given to that Farmer using your money. All the Farmers were receiving this Farm Program. It drove the value of land sky high because the demand for land was enormous. Real Estate prices soared for agricultural land as well as all Real Estate.

This is just one such Farm Bill among many that has existed since the Dust Bowl days when the intent of these Welfare Programs were to help the farmer in times of disaster. But, has been perverted by the criminals in Government to "legally" and "politically" rob the State, and Federal Bank containing your deposit.

This is protectionism, and theft for the rich, and makes it nearly impossible for the lower classes to enter many occupations let alone try to buy any real estate.

Millionaires receive billions in federal ‘welfare,’ Coburn says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/millionaires-receive-billions-in-federal-welfare-coburn-says/2011/11/14/gIQAGLK5KN_blog.html?utm_term=.41a86add98fb

The super-wealthy are receiving billions of dollars in federal benefits... In the 37-page report, titled “Subsidies of the Rich and Famous,” Coburn (R-Okla.) states that since 2003, persons with an annual gross income of at least $1 million have received a total of $9.5 billion in government payments, including $9 billion in Social Security retirement benefits, $74 million in unemployment insurance and $316 million in farm program payments.

Coburn also details about $114 billion in federal tax breaks claimed by millionaires since 2006, at an annual average of $28.5 billion. In 2009, nearly 1,500 millionaires paid no federal income tax,... “This welfare for the well-off — costing billions of dollars a year — is being paid for with the taxes of the less fortunate, many of who are working two jobs just to make ends meet, and IOUs to be paid off by future generations,” the Oklahoma Republican said in a statement. “We should never demonize those who are successful. Nor should we pamper them with unnecessary welfare to create an appearance everyone is benefiting from federal programs.” ...

“subsidizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous” ...

Keep in mind the following payments are only to the Millionaires. The total Corporate, and Welfare to the Rich is much higher.

Subsidies of the Rich and Famous:

- Tom Coburn

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/SubsidiesoftheRichandFamous.pdf

These billions of dollars for millionaires include $74 million of unemployment checks, $316 million in farm subsidies, $89 million for preservation of ranches and estates, $9 billion of retirement checks, $75.6 million

in residential energy tax credits, and $7.5 million to compensate for damages caused by emergencies to property that should have been insured. All and all, over $9.5 billion in government benefits have been paid to millionaires since 2003. Millionaires also borrowed $16 million in government backed education loans to attend college. On average, each year, this report found that millionaires enjoy benefits from tax giveaways and federal grant programs totaling $30 billion. As a result, almost 1,500 millionaires paid no federal ncome tax in 2009. Fleecing the taxpayer while contributing nothing is not the American way. ...

Double Dipping: How Taxpayers Subsidize Farmers Twice for Crop Losses

https://www.ewg.org/research/subsidy-layer-cake#.WgzTEzBrzv9

“After a decline in crop prices in 2014 and 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture boosted farmers’ income by more than $13 billion through two newly enacted subsidy programs,” the report states. “But during the same period, another USDA program paid out nearly as much to ‘compensate’ the same farmers for the same decline in prices. In all, this double-dipping cost American taxpayers almost $23.9 billion.”

The programs, which can be accessed in addition to the crop insurance program, are the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) program and the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program. Ag producers can only choose one of these programs to participate in, but they can choose either of them while simultaneously participating in crop insurance.

The safety net the government provides for American agriculture is one thing, but doesn’t it make sense to pay farmers multiple times for the same losses?

Are North Dakota Farmers Double Dipping on Federal Subsidies?

https://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/north-dakota-farmers-double-dipping-federal-subsidies/

According to a new report from the Environmental Working Group – a somewhat infamous organization in agriculture industry circles thanks to their online database of farm subsidy recipients – there are lot of producers double-dipping on federal subsidies. North Dakota is one of the states where it’s happening the most.... After a decline in crop prices in 2014 and 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture boosted farmers’ income by more than $13 billion through two newly enacted subsidy programs,” the report states. “But during the same period, another USDA program paid out nearly as much to ‘compensate’ the same farmers for the same decline in prices. In all, this double-dipping cost American taxpayers almost $23.9 billion.”...

BIG HOUSE NIGGA STILL A SLAVE FOR THE FARMERS ON THE PLANTATION...

Farm Aid for the Big House

https://www.vera.org/in-our-backyards-stories/farm-aid-for-the-big-house

Rural communities are in the midst of a quiet jail boom, financed in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Over the last two decades, the USDA has been funding jail construction through a program designed to finance infrastructure like emergency services, hospitals, fire stations, and community centers in agricultural areas. But these funds are now increasingly being directed to helping some rural counties build new, expanded jails... This past summer, the Trump administration announced that the USDA would give farmers up to $12 billion around harvest time to insulate them from the effects of the administration’s trade wars. ... In upstate New York, Greene County is going forward with a $39 million low-interest loan application to the USDA to build a massive new jail that many in the community simply do not want. And, in Baker County, Florida, a USDA refinancing loan is essentially bailing out investors in a large, county-run jail and immigrant detention center.... the USDA has funded over $360 million in jail construction in rural areas. ...

“Democratic Socialism” Is a Contradiction in Terms

https://fee.org/articles/democratic-socialism-is-a-contradiction-in-terms/

Google Search: farm bill ripoff

https://www.google.com/#q=farm+bill+ripoffs

GOOGLE SEARCH:

FARM BILL RIPOFF

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FARM BILL RIPOFF OF THE PAST DECADES

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FARM BILL RIPOFF OF THE 1990'S

FARM BILL RIPOFF OF THE 2000'S

Charles Koch slams 'corporate welfare' -Billionaire warns of coming 2-tier society

http://www.wlky.com/politics/-charles-koch-slams-corporate-welfare/34491854?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=GOOGLE_PLUS_PAGE&utm_campaign=WLKY%20News%20Louisville

DANA POINT, California (CNN) —As top GOP presidential candidates arrived at a hotel here to court the influential donors of the Koch network, Charles Koch called on retreat attendees to unite with him in a campaign against "corporate welfare" and "irresponsible spending" by both political parties. Speaking on the hotel's grassy lawn with the Pacific Ocean shimmering behind him, Koch opened the gathering hosted by Freedom Partners by noting that the theme of the weekend would be "Unleashing Our Free Society." Koch network donors and politicians alike must work toward "eliminating welfare for the wealthy," he said."We're headed toward a two-tiered society -- a society that's destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged and creating welfare for the rich," Koch said. "Misguided policies are creating a permanent underclass, crippling our economy and corrupting the business community," he said, "present company excepted of course." Koch said clearing those obstacles would require getting business leaders to recognize that accepting "corporate welfare" -- which he defined as subsidies and special preferences for business -- is "suicide long term.""Short term, taking the principled path (is) going to cause some companies some problems, as it will Koch industries," said Koch, who runs his business empire with his brother, David Koch. "But long term it will allow business people to continue to own and run their businesses." He singled out "big banks" as bad actors who have accepted handouts, including "massive bailouts" and taking "virtually free money from the Fed." To maintain the status quo, the banks "Make big political contributions," he said. "This destructive cycle goes on and on," he said. In between seminars this weekend, the roughly 450 donors here will have a chance to continue vetting the 2016 presidential candidates. The current GOP poll leader, Donald Trump, was not invited to the gathering. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina were the first two to address the group on Saturday during a question-answer session moderated by Politico's Mike Allen. On Sunday, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will address members of the Freedom Partners. Those three, along with Walker and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul -- who was invited but could not attend -- are considered to be the strongest contenders for Koch Brothers' backing in the 2016 cycle. But the Kochs have indicated they may not take sides before the primaries begin. Fiorina was invited because she is less well known, and some Freedom Partners members said they were interested in learning more about her views. The former Hewlett Packard took a sharp jab at Bush during her session when asked what question she would pose to one of the other candidates in the field. Given the festering problems in Washington over many decades, Fiorina said she would ask the former Florida governor: "Why do you think you are the Bush who can change that?"

The Big Money Propping Up Harsh Sentences

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-big-money-propping-up-harsh-sentences/415362/

Multi-million dollar spending on state supreme court races have become the norm. Special-interest groups like Campaign for 2016 and Justice for All North Carolina accounted for a record 29 percent of overall expenditures in 2013-2014, spurred in part by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. This new record suggests that ads geared toward criminal justice aren’t likely to go away.

As a result, even as bipartisan consensus forms on reining in mass incarceration, politicized judicial elections nevertheless push judges toward tough-on-crime stances. A recent study suggested that more TV ads in supreme court races make judges less likely to side with criminal defendants. They also affect public confidence in the courts: In a 2013 poll, 87 percent of Americans said they believe that campaign donations and independent spending by outside groups affect judges’ rulings....

Without reform, Americans appearing in court may legitimately ask whether judges are deciding their cases based on the law and constitution—or out of fear of future TV ads

Starve The Poor, Feed The Rich

https://youtu.be/dLN-pnAszyw

Fox News told a BIG lie about food stamps.

Hundreds of Thousands Are Losing Access to Food Stamps

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/food-stamps.html

The Agriculture Department gave its final approval to the first of three rules that are ultimately expected to cut more than three million from the food stamp rolls....The change is expected to shave nearly $5.5 billion from food stamp spending over five years....

The rule would also prevent households with more than $2,250 in assets, or $3,500 for a household with a disabled adult, from receiving food stamps. Those changes would strip nearly three million people of their benefits, the department said, and nearly one million children would lose automatic eligibility for free or reduced-price school meals....

The amount saved is a fraction of the amount in subsidies given to farmers amid the president’s trade war. ...

A Wall Street-Main Street split

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/12/26/ties-fray-between-wall-street-and-main-street-nation-has-become-further-divided/kj84r8nfhN9F2Ba31RzcRK/story.html

Who controls the “Jobs, Money, Power” these “rivals” fight over? And why are these resources seen as “finite”? Another article in the Sunday Globe cites a recent study showing America’s 20 wealthiest people now own more than the bottom 152 million. The wealth is there, but owned and controlled by fewer and fewer people (“A Wall Street-Main Street split,” Page A1, Dec. 28).

The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/11/us/politics/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html

A New York Times article revealed that just 158 families — along with the companies they own or control — contributed $176 million in the first phase of the 2016 presidential election. That’s nearly HALF of the money raised to capture the White House so far. And they still have 4 more months to "buy" the politicians of their choice into power… Now you tell me, do you HONESTLY think these 158 families — or the politicians they’re putting into power — really have your family’s best interests at heart?

What’s truly frightening is that the article didn’t even touch upon a much deeper grab for money and power that’s taking place behind Washington’s closed doors…

Myth: Poor people and minorities are committing the most crime.

Fact: The rich commit far more crime than the poor.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-poorcrime.htm

Summary

The upper class commits far more crime than the lower class. Street criminals stole $15.3 billion in 1993, but white collar-criminals embezzled $200 billion. Street criminals murdered 23,271 people that year, but the decisions of profit-driven corporations murdered at least 318,368 (through pollution, consumer and worker safety violations, etc.) Corporations deserve blame for these deaths because they lobby for and enact policies which drive up these death rates. Virtually all other rich countries have higher safeguards and lower death rates....

The same is true of murder. Officially, the FBI counted 23,271 murders in 1993. (3) But a truer figure would run at least 318,368, even by the incomplete and conservative count listed below. Society has simply conditioned us not to think of the deaths caused by corporations as murder....

THE REAL MURDER STATISTICS In 1992, nearly 70,000 Americans were killed from job-related accidents or work-related illness and desease. Another 13.2 million suffered non-fatal injuries or illness, at a cost of $170 billion to the economy....

THE GRAND TOTAL The above list of how Americans are really murdered is far from complete, but it gives us a start in comparing the official murder rate to the real one. Once again, this is how the FBI counted murders for 1993:

FBI Murder Count, 1993 (FBI)

Guns 16,200

Cutting or stabbing 2,960

Blunt objects 1,020

Personal 1,160

Strangulations,

Asphyxiations 442

Fire 209

All others 1,280

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Total 23,271

Now let's calculate the real rate.

Partial and conservative list of actual murder counts (early 1990's):

Cause Deaths Portion of total

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Job-related deaths 17,500 (25 percent of total)

Particulate air pollution 20,000 (of 64,000)

Consumer products 5,425 (25 percent of total)

Cigarettes 104,750 (25 percent of total)

Second-hand smoke 3,000 (100 percent of total)

Unnecessary surgery 16,000 (100 percent of total)

Unnecessary prescriptions 2,000 (lowest estimate)

Infant Mortality 5,600 (Rate reduction from 9.22 to 7 percent)

Coronary Heart Disease 122,493 (25 percent of total)

Black pregnancy deaths 17,600 (Rate reduction from 18.1 to 5.0 per 1,000.)

AIDS 4,000 (10 percent of total)

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Total 318,368

The real murder rate is at least 13 times the official one. It should be noted that this list does not count all the general deaths attributable to poverty, which would add hundreds of thousands more to the final count.

In closing, the middle and upper class are guilty of hypocrisy when they single out lower class crime for especial criticism. The tools that the upper class uses -- lobbyists, deregulation, safety shortcuts, heightened production quotas -- do not seem as terrifying as the tools that a stereotypical criminal uses -- guns, knives, fists, etc. But the results are just as deadly, and far more widespread.

MASTAS GET MORE BENEFITS, AGAIN, SLAVES...

Trump weighs plan to bypass Congress, cut taxes for rich

http://www.startribune.com/trump-weighs-100-billion-tax-cut-for-wealthy/489587141/

The Trump administration is considering bypassing Congress to grant a $100 billion tax cut mainly to the wealthy... Capital gains taxes are overwhelmingly paid by high earners, and they were untouched in the $1.5 trillion tax law that Trump signed last year. Independent analyses suggest that more than 97 percent of the benefits of indexing capital gains for inflation would go to the top 10 percent of income earners in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of the benefits would go to the super wealthy — the top 0.1 percent of U.S. income earners....

Liberal tax economists see little benefit in it beyond another boon to the already-rich.

“It would just be a very generous addition to the tax cuts they’ve already handed to the very wealthy,”... According to the budget model used by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, indexing capital gains to inflation would reduce government revenues by $102 billion over a decade, with 86 percent of the benefits going to the top 1 percent. ...

Trump tax breaks for the wealthy are paying dividends for Republicans

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/08/18/trump-tax-breaks-for-wealthy-are-paying-dividends-for-republicans/8eyOv0jz4p2b8s1Tqp03VN/story.html

WASHINGTON — Republicans are struggling to make the $1.5 trillion Trump tax cuts a winning issue with voters in the midterm congressional elections, but the cuts are helping the party in another crucial way: unlocking tens of millions of dollars in campaign donations.

The money is coming from wealthy conservatives and corporate interests that benefited handsomely from the tax rollback....

How FedEx cut its tax bill to $0

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/11/17/how-fedex-cut-its-tax-bill/5yvcAWInOr9pLHCY1rvXRJ/story.html

WASHINGTON — In the 2017 fiscal year, FedEx owed more than $1.5 billion in taxes. The next year, it owed nothing. What changed was the Trump administration’s tax cut — for which the company had lobbied hard....

Four months later, President Trump signed into law the $1.5 trillion tax cut that became his signature legislative achievement. FedEx reaped big savings, bringing its effective tax rate to less than zero in fiscal year 2018 from 34 percent in fiscal year 2017, meaning that, overall, the government technically owed it money. But it did not increase investment in new equipment and other assets in the fiscal year that followed as Smith said businesses like his would.

Nearly two years after the tax law passed, the windfall to corporations like FedEx is becoming clear. A New York Times analysis of data compiled by Capital IQ shows no statistically meaningful relationship between the size of the tax cut that companies and industries received and the investments they made. If anything, the companies that received the biggest tax cuts increased their capital investment by less, on average, than companies that got smaller cuts....

Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey was paid $5 million in 2018, but says his company is so broke it needs public subsidies

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/postmedia-ceo-paul-godfrey-was-paid-5-million-in-2018-but-says-his-company-is-so-broke-it-needs-public-subsidies/

CEO Paul Godfrey was awarded a $1.2 million bonus on top of his $1.2 million dollar salary in 2018, and with stock options brought in over $5 million in 2018. The top five execs at Postmedia collectively received over $10 million in compensation: Yes, this is the same Postmedia that closed six community newspapers in June and cut its payroll by 10 per cent in August through early retirements and layoffs. And this is the same Paul Godfrey who last year went to Ottawa, hat in hand, to ask for $350 million a year in public subsidies for the legacy news industry. And it’s the same Paul Godfrey who last week praised the Trudeau government for announcing tax breaks benefitting the legacy news industry to the tune of half a billion dollars annually: “I tip my hat to the prime minister and the finance minister,” said Godfrey after the announcement. “Everyone in journalism should be doing a victory lap around their building right now.”...

Another bailout for the rich...

11,000 Texas Farmers Seek A Bailout From US Taxpayers

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/11-000-texas-farmers-seek-a-bailout-from-us-taxpayers-due-to-trump-tariffs-_ii8DZiFJ0mfgXfdfj1lFQ/

Brenda Carlson, a USDA spokeswoman, said that the USDA-Farm Production and Conservation Business Center in Texas had processed approximately 11,000 applications. Farmers and ranchers in Texas received a total of $72 million in assistance. ...

Nationally, 864,000 farmers have applied for assistance. They’ve been given an estimated $8 billion in payments....

Column: Another year, another thousand deaths. L.A. homeless crisis hits a crossroads

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-14/homeless-deaths-crisis-solution-2019

the 680th homeless person to die in L.A. County this year. In the three months since then, the number has grown by roughly three a day, reaching 960 a few days ago. The annual number has increased every year since 2013, and the toll over that span has now surpassed 5,620. ...a humanitarian crisis, the number of unsheltered people climbed to nearly 60,000 early this year....And now homeless encampments are as abundant in L.A. as $10-million homes....

Pentagon racks up $35 trillion in accounting adjustments in one year

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2020/01/22/pentagon-racks-trillion-accounting-adjustments-one-year/Q5zVzdSGhUIx49ru5DcDEO/story.html

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that’s larger than the entire US economy and underscores the Defense Department’s continuing difficulty in balancing its books. The latest estimate is up from $30.7 trillion in 2018 and $29 trillion in 2017, the first year adjustments were tracked in a concerted way, according to Pentagon figures and a lawmaker who has delved into the accounting morass. The figure dwarfs the $738 billion of defense-related funding in the latest US budget, a spending plan that includes the most expensive weapons systems in the world, including the F-35 jet as well as new aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines.

‘‘Within that $30 trillion is a lot of double, triple, and quadruple counting of the same money as it got moved between accounts,’’ said Todd Harrison, a Pentagon budget expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Defense Department acknowledged that it failed its first-ever audit in 2018 and then again last year, when it reviewed $2.7 trillion in assets and $2.6 trillion in liabilities. ....Although it gets scant public attention — compared with airstrikes, troop deployments, sexual assault statistics, or major weapons programs —the reliability of the Pentagon’s financial statement is an indication of how effectively the military manages its resources. It receives over half of discretionary domestic spending....The ‘‘combined errors, shorthand, and sloppy record-keeping by DoD accountants do add up to a number nearly 1.5 times the size of the US economy,’’ ...

As an example of how the dollar figures multiply, Sherwood said recognizing $800 million due a contractor in previously unrecorded payments ‘‘requires multiple accounting adjustments that net to $0 but could total over $5 billion’’ in movement between accounts.

The GAO estimated based on a sample that at least 96 percent of 181,947 automatic adjustments made in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 ‘‘didn’t have adequate supporting documentation.’’...

We're In A Golden Age Of White Collar Crime

https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/

In January 2019, white-collar prosecutions fell to their lowest level since researchers started tracking them in 1998. Even within the dwindling number of prosecutions, most are cases against low-level con artists and small-fry financial schemes. Since 2015, criminal penalties levied by the Justice Department have fallen from $3.6 billion to roughly $110 million. Illicit profits seized by the Securities and Exchange Commission have reportedly dropped by more than half. In 2018, a year when nearly 19,000 people were sentenced in federal court for drug crimes alone, prosecutors convicted just 37 corporate criminals who worked at firms with more than 50 employees. With few exceptions, the only rich people America prosecutes anymore are those who victimize their fellow elites....

Tax evasion, to pick just one crime concentrated among the wealthy, already siphons up to 10,000 times more money out of the U.S. economy every year than bank robberies. In 2017, researchers estimated that fraud by America’s largest corporations cost Americans up to $360 billion annually between 1996 and 2004. That’s roughly two decades’ worth of street crime every single year....

Another bargain-hunting strategy is to try cases in administrative proceedings rather than civil courts, an innovation that reduces hearings from months to hours. The downside, though, is that these cases largely play out in secret, resulting in fines rather than prison time and don’t compel defendants to testify, turn over evidence or admit guilt. In 2007, the SEC filed 60 percent of its settlements in civil courts. In 2015, that proportion was 17 percent. In 2014 and 2015, the agency didn’t file a settlement against a single U.S. Wall Street firm....

Fraud by large corporations costs Americans up to $360 billion per year—the equivalent of two decades’ worth of street crime. SOURCE: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE....

Trump Administration Tells Some Business Owners “Do Not Apply” for Coronavirus Loans

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/04/08/trump-administration-tells-some-business-owners-do-not-apply-for-coronavirus-loans

It’s a little noticed frustration compared to the logistical problems of the Trump administration’s rollout of the CARES Act. A set of new regulations for implementing the law, issued by the Small Business Administration, prohibits small-business owners with criminal records from accessing the desperately needed loans.

“We have never seen such a sweeping mandatory disqualification based on a criminal record, in any area of the law,” wrote the Collateral Consequences Resource Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan website that tracks how federal, state and local laws affect people with past charges or convictions. The site is run by Margaret Love, who was the U.S. Pardon Attorney during the Clinton administration.

It is unclear how many small-business owners nationally have a criminal history. But The Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy group, has estimated that as many as 100 million Americans have an arrest or conviction in their past, and there are more than 30 million small businesses around the country, according to the Small Business Administration. Because people with felony records in particular often can’t get jobs, many start their own businesses, from plumbing to food-services to fitness, experts say.

Add to that the people working for each small-business owner, and you see how the new regulations can have a cascading negative effect on employment, Love said in an interview....

The Business of a Ghost Business

https://mesquitelocalnews.com/2019/10/15/the-business-of-a-ghost-business/

A ghost business can also be referred to as a shell corporation; the meanings are virtually the same, though one is quite larger than the other; hence…the word corporation. The shell corp. is a company with significant financial assets, but has no general activity or employees, as it stores money while engaging in financial transactions. A ghost company is similar in the way of no active employees or office; however it may hold passive investments, or is the registered owner of assets and may even have a bank account; the businesses are solely on paper. Then there is the so-called dummy corporation; used as a front, which covers one or more companies. In fact, it may look very real when it comes to its logos and, or websites, but lacks the capacity to function as its advertisement claims; though it could actually have a handful of employees....No matter how we look at things today, there will always be those privileged few that reap the riches and get away with it. It’s like the saying goes; “the rich get richer while the poor get poorer” and so it goes....

Shell corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_corporation

A shell corporation is a company or corporation that exists only on paper and has no office and no employees, but may have a bank account or may hold passive investments or be the registered owner of assets, such as intellectual property, or ships....

The company may serve as a vehicle for business transactions without itself having any significant assets or operations. Sometimes, shell companies are used for tax evasion, tax avoidance, and money laundering, or to achieve a specific goal such as anonymity. Anonymity may be sought to shield personal assets from others, such as a spouse when a marriage is breaking down, from creditors, from government authorities, besides others. Shell companies can have legitimate business purposes. They may, for example, act as trustee for a trust, and not engage in any other activity on their own account. This structure creates limited liability for the trustee. A corporate shell can also be formed around a partnership to create limited liability for the partners, and other business ventures, or to immunize one part of a business from the risks of another part. Shell companies can be used to transfer assets from one company into a new one, while leaving the liabilities in the former company. ...

Dummy corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_corporation

A dummy corporation, dummy company, or false company is an entity created to serve as a front or cover for one or more companies. It can have the appearance of being real (logo, website, and sometimes employing actual staff), but lacks the capacity to function independently. The dummy corporation's sole purpose is to protect "an individual or another corporation from liability in either contract or import"....

The multinational security corporation Blackwater Worldwide was reported to have obtained over thirty dummy corporations in order to secure million dollar contracts from the United States government. After the backlash from Blackwater's "reckless misconduct" in Iraq, the security corporation successfully obtained lucrative American contracts under several subsidiaries....

Walt Disney World Company's use of Compass East Corporation, created in Delaware in 1964, is an example of a dummy corporation established in order to purchase land. ...

Government use: In order to conceal the true nature of their missions and operations, governments may create dummy corporations....

Fraudsters mislead investors in order to sell securities in the dummy corporation, in this case, making investors incorrectly believe "that they are buying shares in the real corporation"....

Another use is to prevent speculators from intruding on imminent plans of the parent organisation. Dummy corporations may also be used in crime to hide the identity of a criminal, similar to the use of a criminal alias. Raymond Davis, a former Blairstown, New Jersey committee member, diverted $46,000 in public funds into a dummy corporation. The self-created dummy corporation was a vehicle to conceal his identity while stealing funds from a municipal complex project....

A dummy corporation is one way to "cook the books" in a dishonest attempt to hide the true financial status of a company. While the use of dummy corporations is not inherently illegal, the usage of these corporations can go against the ethics of the parent company...

COSTS for Police, Corrections, & Judicial:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/US_criminal_justice_cost_timeline.gif

(Graph)

Total state corrections expenditures in the United States from 1982 to 2010

(in billion U.S. dollars)

http://www.statista.com/statistics/253003/total-state-corrections-expenditures-in-the-united-states/

Federal or State Prisoners - Summary by State

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0347.pdf

Federal Aid to States for Fiscal Year 2009

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

www.census.gov/govs/cffr

Federal Government Grants and Other Payments to State and Local Governments, by Agency and for Selected Programs, by State and Outlying Area:

Fiscal Year 2009—

Department of Justice:

Total $3,894,654,000

FederalPrisonSystem $28,363,000

Office ofAssetForfeiture $397,931,000

Total $3,468,360,000

Corrections, probation,and parole $51,975,000

Crime victims programs $575,941,000

Education, research, and statistics programs $127,260,000

Juvenile justice programs $306,560,000

Law enforcement assistance Total $335,288,000

Bullet proof vests $20,290,000

Community oriented policing program $1,125,000

Law enforcement block grant $8,587,000

Violence against women and children $130,343,000

Weed and seed $36,919,000

Other $138,024,000

Substance abuse programs $1,194,038,000

Other $877,298,000

Fiscal Year 2013 Federal Budget of the US Government:

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Hi-Lites

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/budget.pdf

Provides $27.1 billion in discretionary funding, a decrease of 0.4 percent below the 2012 level.

Core Federal programs including law enforcement, litigation, and prisons and detention, however, are funded at 1.2 percent above 2012 levels.

Invests more than $700 million to investigate and prosecute financial crimes, an increase of $55 million over 2012.

Finances efforts to combat transnational criminal organizations and maintain the security of the Southwest border with new investments in intelligence capabilities and nearly $2 billion in Southwest border enforcement spending.

Increases funding for the investigation and deterrence of intellectual property crime by $5 million for additional attorneys and FBI agents, bringing total spending to nearly $40 million annually.

Consistent with Administration-wide efforts to help States maximize effective activities, the Budget continues to assist State and local criminal justice programs with more than $2 billion in program assistance for police hiring, general purpose criminal justice assistance, violence against women programs, and Second Chance Act grants; the same as in 2012.

Tbl 345 -State & local govt expenditures per capita per Criminal Justice function 2007

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0346.pdf

Based on resident population as of July 1, 2007.

Total U.S.:

Total Justice system= $633 per resident

Police Protection= $279 per resident

Judicial and Legal= $129 per resident

Corrections= $225 per resident

North Dakota:

Total Justice system= $402 per resident

Police Protection= $166per resident

Judicial and Legal= $96 per resident

Corrections= $140 per resident

List of countries by military expenditures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies Top 15 Defence Budgets 2017

Rank Country Spending ($ Bn.)

1 United States 602.8

2 People's Republic

of China 150.5

3 Saudi Arabia 76.7

4 Russia 61.2

5 India 52.5

6 United Kingdom 50.7

7 France 48.6

8 Japan 46.0

9 Germany 41.7

10 South Korea 35.7

11 Brazil 29.4

12 Australia 25.0

13 Italy 22.9

14 Israel 21.6

15 Iraq 19.4

List by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 2017 Fact Sheet (for 2016)

SIPRI Military Expenditure Database

Rank Country Spending($ Bn.) $/person

1 United States 611.2 1,897

2 People's Republic

of China 215.7 153

3 Russia 69.2 481

4 Saudi Arabia 63.7 1,974

5 India 55.9 42

6 France 55.7 861

7 United Kingdom 48.3 734

8 Japan 46.1 361

9 Germany 41.1 502

10 South Korea 36.8 725

11 Italy 27.9 469

12 Australia 24.3 1,007

13 Brazil 22.8 110

14 United Arab

Emirates 22.8 2,460

15 Israel 17.8 2,173

Population Source:

List of countries by population (United Nations) July1, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)

Once Laws were manufactured to fight Crime.

Now Crimes are manufactured to make more Laws.

UNITED SLAVES GUBMINT & LAW IS A CRIMINAL GANG AND A TERRORIST REGIME. GUBMINT AND LAW IS A PROTECTION RACKET FOR THE MASTAS. THEY CREATE, FABRICATE, PROVOKE, INSTIGATE, ATTACK, etc., ... DANGERS WHICH THEY THEN EXTORT JOHN SLAVES TO PAY THEM FOR PROTECTION. FROM POLICE RACKETS, ATTORNEY RACKET, TO COURTROOM RACKET THE ENTIRE LEGAL PROFESSIONS PROFITS FROM EVERY CASE STEALING MONEY FROM JOHN SLAVE. NO WONDER USA IS #1 LEADING JAILER. GUBMINT MASTAS ALSO RUN A PROTECTION RACKET TO FOREIGN NATIONS PROVOKING WARS WITH SOME NATIONS SO THEY CAN SELL PROTECTION TO OTHER NATIONS...

Protection racket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

A protection racket is a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law—in other words, a racket that sells security, traditionally physical security but now also computer security. Through the credible threat of violence, the racketeers deter people from swindling, robbing, injuring, sabotaging or otherwise harming their clients. Protection rackets tend to appear in markets where the police and judiciary cannot be counted on to provide legal protection, either because of incompetence (as in weak or failed states) or illegality (black markets).

Protection rackets are indistinguishable in practice from extortion rackets, and distinguishable from private security, by some degree of implied threat that the racketeers themselves may attack the business if it fails to pay for their protection. A distinction is possible between a "pure" extortion racket, in which the racketeers might only agree not to attack a business, and a broader protection racket offering some real private security along with some extortion on the side, in which the criminals might agree to defend a business from any attack by either themselves or third parties (other criminal gangs). However, this distinction is moot in reality because extortion racketeers may have to defend their clients against rival gangs if only to avoid losing their cash cows. By corollary, criminal gangs may have to maintain control of territories (turfs), because local businesses don't have enough revenue to feed countless parasites without financially collapsing and thus the parasites must compete for hosts....

Government protection rackets: Government officials may demand bribes to look the other way or extort something of value from citizens or corporations in the form of a kickback. It need not always be money. A lucrative job after leaving office may have been in exchange for protection offered when in office. Payment may also show up indirectly in the form of a campaign contribution. Stopping governments agencies as a whole, and buying protection in the government is called regulatory capture.

(Gubmint Protection Rackets extend to Foreign Nations. Creating dangers for profit. The USA Gubmint picks fights and instigates conflicts with nations in order to sell its Protection Services to other nations.)

USA IS A WORLD WIDE TERRORIST, ROGUE, MURDEROUS, AND A CRIMINAL REGIME

"United States is rogue state and a murderous regime".

"United States reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life."

"It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime but would arm supply and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict.

"No nation on earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles.

"The United States government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind a false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy party with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos. "The longest suffering victims of United State's leaders are in fact its own people...."

"We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilising activities while building dangerous missiles and we cannot abide by the agreement if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear programme."

In decline? Weapons business made $370.7 billion in 2015, with US dominating, study shows

https://www.rt.com/news/369388-sipri-global-arms-trade/

US, whose arms sales amounted to $209.7 billion in 2015...

Russia’s military industry came in second with combined arms sales from eleven companies reaching $30.1 billion last year ...

US sold $40 billion in weapons in 2015, topping global market

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/12/26/sold-billion-weapons-topping-global-market/gmWdWdXmRTJfzBOIv3kvmI/story.html

The United States again ranked first in global weapons sales last year, signing deals for about $40 billion, or half of all agreements in the worldwide arms bazaar, and far ahead of France, the No. 2 weapons dealer with $15 billion in sales, according to a congressional study.

Developing nations continued to be the largest buyers of arms in 2015, with Qatar signing deals for more than $17 billion in weapons, followed by Egypt, which agreed to buy almost $12 billion in arms, and Saudi Arabia, with over $8 billion in weapons purchases. ... the total size of the global arms trade dropped to about $80 billion in 2015 from the 2014 total of $89 billion, ... Developing nations bought $65 billion in weapons in 2015, ...

Russia, another dominant power in the global arms market, saw a modest decline in orders for its weapons, dropping to $11.1 billion in sales from the $11.2 billion total in 2014. ...China reached $6 billion in weapons sales, up from its 2014 total of more than $3 billion.

The largest buyers of weapons in the developing world in 2015 were Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Pakistan, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Iraq.

2018 United States federal budget

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_federal_budget

The proposed 2018 budget includes $54 billion in cuts to federal departments, and a corresponding increase in defense and military spending.

Department of Defense $574 billion +9%

Department of

Homeland Security $44.1 billion +7%

Department of

Veteran Affairs $78.9 billion +6%

FY 2017 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book

http://armscontrolcenter.org/fy-2016-defense-budget-request-briefing-book/

The U.S. will spend more than $600 billion on the military this year — more than at the height of the Cold War, and more than the next seven nations combined. If the Overseas Contingency Operations (war) account, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, nuclear warhead production, military aid and interest on military-related national debt are included, the figure reaches $1 trillion. Every year.

For example, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction recently investigated a $3 million contract for a demonstration natural gas station. The final price tag wound up at $42.7 million, $20 million of which was “overhead.” For a gas station. The Pentagon couldn’t explain it, saying those responsible had retired.

The House Armed Services Committee chair, Texas Republican Mac Thornberry, recently proposed taking $18 billion from the Overseas Contingency Operations account to cover an extra 11 F-35 combat aircraft and 14 F-18 fighter-bombers … planes that the Pentagon doesn’t even want. That’s because Thornberry is in thrall to donors such as Lockheed Martin, which runs the troubled F-35 program — the most expensive weapons system in history on a plane that is still unready for combat — and Boeing, which is desperate to keep its F-18 production line open even though the Navy doesn’t want any more.

Thornberry’s $18 billion for unnecessary planes will come from funds for troop training and maintenance of equipment in active war zones.

Then there’s the two dozen foreign military aid programs at $10 billion each. (Those are only the biggest ones. The U.S. actually provides arms and training to 180 of the planet’s 196 countries.) The Pentagon is the only foreign-assistance agency that doesn’t have to submit an annual budget to Congress, so nobody really knows how much the Pentagon is spending overseas, why or with what effect.

To top it all off, the Pentagon plans to spend $1 trillion over the next three decades on new nuclear bombers, submarines and missiles. This will hit our wallets in the mid-2020s, when wildly expensive systems like the F-35 will also be hitting peak production.

Its clear to see whose the Fat Pig in Federal Govt.

Defense spending cumulative with military, law enforcement, homeland, overseas, Justice, and indirect related costs is the biggest source of our misery. American Fear-mongering is stealing us blind.

Fiscal Year 2016 Federal Budget of the US Government:

Funding Levels for Appropriated (“Discretionary”) Programs by Agency

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2016/assets/budget.pdf

Table S-11 p138-140

(Budget authority in billions of dollars)

Defense 534.3

Overseas

Contingency

Operations 58.0

Homeland Security 41.2

Health and

Human Services 79.9

Justice 2014=27.3

2015=27.3

2016=14.9

2017=29.4

2018 30.0

Agriculture 23.5

The Budget provides $97 million to expand training and oversight for local law enforcement, increase the use of body-worn cameras, provide additional opportunities for police department reform, and facilitate community and law enforcement engagement.

Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) reentry programs. These investments include $110 million to increase mental health staff, expand sex offender treatment programs, and provide cognitive behavioral treatment and additional residential reentry center beds.

$5 million to support a new broader reentry program that reaches out to offenders’ children and

families to strengthen familial bonds, which are critical for helping inmates transitioning back home

$20 million to award innovative reentry programs in BOP facilities. In addition, through State and local assistance programs, the Budget nearly doubles the investment in the Second Chance Act Grant program.

$612 billion of national defense discretionary funds, a $26 billion, or 4.5 percent, increase from the 2015 enacted level.

$561 billion in base discretionary funding for national defense.

$51 billion DOD’s OCO

$53.4 billion for the Department of State and Other International Programs (State/OIP)

$46.3 billion in base funding and $7.0 billion in OCO

$8.8 billion in OCO funds for DOD and State/OIP

$5.3 billion for DOD to continue Operation Inherent Resolve

$3.5 billion State/OIP, the Budget provides

$117 million in foreign assistance funds directed specifically toward countering Russian aggressive acts in Ukraine

$51 million for countering Russian pressure and destabilizing activities in Moldova and Georgia.

$16 million investment in U.S. international media activities

$1 billion sovereign loan guarantee

$789 million to continue the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI

$2.5 billion for the Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund

$4 million to conduct research targeted toward developing a better understanding of violent extremism and advancing evidence-based strategies for effective prevention and intervention;

$6 million to support flexible, locally-developed CVE models;

$2 million to develop training and provide technical assistance;

$3 million for demonstration projects that enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies nationwide

$190 Billion NNSA

$70.2 billion in discretionary 2016 resources for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

$63.3 billion for 2017 VA medical care

$10 billion in mandatory funding through 2017 to establish a temporary program (Veterans Choice Program) improving veterans’ access to health care

COSTS for Police, Corrections, & Judicial:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/US_criminal_justice_cost_timeline.gif

(Graph)

Total state corrections expenditures in the United States from 1982 to 2010

(in billion U.S. dollars)

http://www.statista.com/statistics/253003/total-state-corrections-expenditures-in-the-united-states/

Federal or State Prisoners - Summary by State

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0347.pdf

Federal Aid to States for Fiscal Year 2009

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

www.census.gov/govs/cffr

Federal Government Grants and Other Payments to State and Local Governments, by Agency and for Selected Programs, by State and Outlying Area:

Fiscal Year 2009—

Department of Justice:

Total $3,894,654,000

FederalPrisonSystem $28,363,000

Office ofAssetForfeiture $397,931,000

Total $3,468,360,000

Corrections, probation,and parole $51,975,000

Crime victims programs $575,941,000

Education, research, and statistics programs $127,260,000

Juvenile justice programs $306,560,000

Law enforcement assistance Total $335,288,000

Bullet proof vests $20,290,000

Community oriented policing program $1,125,000

Law enforcement block grant $8,587,000

Violence against women and children $130,343,000

Weed and seed $36,919,000

Other $138,024,000

Substance abuse programs $1,194,038,000

Other $877,298,000

Fiscal Year 2013 Federal Budget of the US Government:

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Hi-Lites

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/budget.pdf

Provides $27.1 billion in discretionary funding, a decrease of 0.4 percent below the 2012 level.

Core Federal programs including law enforcement, litigation, and prisons and detention, however, are funded at 1.2 percent above 2012 levels.

Invests more than $700 million to investigate and prosecute financial crimes, an increase of $55 million over 2012.

Tbl 345 -State & local govt expenditures per capita per Criminal Justice function 2007

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0346.pdf

Based on resident population as of July 1, 2007.

Total U.S.:

Total Justice system= $633 per resident

Police Protection= $279 per resident

Judicial and Legal= $129 per resident

Corrections= $225 per resident

North Dakota:

Total Justice system= $402 per resident

Police Protection= $166per resident

Judicial and Legal= $96 per resident

Corrections= $140 per resident

Pentagon racks up $35 trillion in accounting adjustments in one year

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2020/01/22/pentagon-racks-trillion-accounting-adjustments-one-year/Q5zVzdSGhUIx49ru5DcDEO/story.html

The GAO estimated based on a sample that at least 96 percent of 181,947 automatic adjustments made in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 ‘‘didn’t have adequate supporting documentation.’’...

EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW =

“first come, first serve”, IF YOU ARE A MASTA OR A SLAVE, AND/OR IF YOU RICH OR POOR. IF YOU DID NOT GIT ANY GUBMINT PIMP MUNEE FOR YOUR BUSINESS IS BECUZ YOU ARE A NIGGER, LATRINO, HO, SLAVE, ANY USA MINORITY, POOR, ETC....

NOW GUBMINT PIMPS WANT DEMO DATA TO ENSURE ALL MASTAS GIT PIMP MUNEE. HOW THEY GONNA DO THAT WHEN MOST AMERICANS ARE BASTARDS. SO IF YOU ARE 2/3 NIGGER AND 1/3 LATRINO DOES THAT MAKE YOU A MASTA. WHAT IF YOU PART SLAVE AND PART MASTA? WHAT GOOD IS THE DEMO DATA FOR A NATION OF BASTARDS, SLAVES AND MASTAS? TO ENSURE EQUAL FOOTING THE NIGGA/LATRINO/HO FOUNDATION COLLECTS MUNEE SOLELY FOR THE BASTARDS UNLESS THEY PART WHITE?

IN THE END THE MASTAS GIT THE MUNEE, AND THE SLAVES GIT THE CRUMBS BUT, SOME DONT....

The Great American Rescue is leaving minority businesses behind

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/20/business/great-american-rescue-is-leaving-minority-businesses-behind

Minority-owned businesses tend not to have the banking, legal, and accounting relationships needed to help them navigate the complicated process of applying for rescue loans from the Small Business Administration. ...

As Congress closes in on the next package — with potentially another $350 billion in SBA loans and grants — equity can’t be an afterthought. We saw what happened with the first money grab: Big restaurant chains, including Ruth’s Chris, Potbelly’s, and Shake Shack, scored tens of millions of dollars in loans. After a public uproar, Shake Shack grew a conscience and returned the money.

In an interview, Representative Ayanna Pressley said the “first come, first serve” nature of the program put minority-owned businesses at a disadvantage that ultimately “compounded the inequities that we already know exist.” As a result, she added, “relief was not being equitably felt.”...

Just as Pressley has called on the Centers for Disease Control to report daily the racial breakout of COVID-19 cases, she — along with New York Representative Gregory Meeks and Senators Kamala Harris and Sherrod Brown — has been leading a push for Treasury to compel banks to collect demographic data of loan recipients and ensure that fair lending practices are applied.... The laws are there. They are only good as their implementation....

That was the impetus behind last week’s launch of the Business Equity COVID-19 Emergency Fund to support Black and Latinx businesses in Massachusetts. A coalition of community organizations — including Amplify Latinx, Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, the Boston Foundation’s Business Equity Fund, and Foundation for Business Equity — is raising $10 million to provide no-interest bridge loans, up to $100,000, and no payments for one year. The loan recipients also get access to advisers to help with business strategy to navigate the pandemic-induced downturn.

The fund has seed money from Accordia Partners, Berkshire Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation, Cummings Foundation, and Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation. The first batch of loans are expected to be issued by the end of the month. Given’s Boston’s reputation as being unfriendly to people of color,...

THE RICH GIT RICHER, THE POOR GIT PRISON. THUS FAR IT LOOKS JUST AS I HAD EXPECTED THAT THE MASTAS, MAKING THE LAWS FOR THEMSELVES, ARE REAPING BIG GAINS STEALING FROM THE TREASURY. WHILE THE SLAVES WIND UP WITH NOTHING. AT BEST A FEW CRUMBS TO PREVENT THE REVOLUTION AS A BRIBERY TO APEASE THE NIGGERS....

State firms lagged in receiving federal coronavirus rescue money

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/21/business/firms-mass-lagged-receiving-sba-money

The top four recipients proportionally — Nebraska, North Dakota, Kansas, and South Dakota, — received loans equal to 18 percent to 19 percent of their small business payrolls, Moody’s said. Some of the states at the bottom of Moody’s list have seen their unemployment rates climb much higher than those at the top. In Massachusetts over the past four weeks, new jobless claims have equaled nearly 15 percent of the state’s workforce, according to the Pioneer Institute. By contrast, applications for unemployment pay in South Dakota were 4.9 percent of its workforce. “You would really want the program to provide money to businesses in the states that are hardest hit by the virus,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “The areas that got hit by the COVID hurricane got disproportionately less help than other places.”...

the Paycheck Protection Program...was depleted in just 13 days. The new legislation includes stipulations to resolve complaints that many firms missed out on the first round, earmarking $60 billion for smaller lenders...one reason small businesses from more rural states may have fared better in the first round is they had stronger ties with community banks that were already set up to make SBA loans....In Massachusetts, banks processed 46,937 loans for the program totaling $10.4 billion, according to the SBA. But many more firms were shut out when the money ran out April 16. According to a survey conducted by the Massachusetts Bankers Association on Friday, institutions reported that they had queue of about 12,000 applications totaling close to $1 billion in loan requests.

Still she faults the “first come, first serve” nature of the program, which puts smaller outfits likes her at a disadvantage. “I want to see a program like this implemented as it was intended,” she said. ”The rich and well-connected people are going to be first in line for these things.”...

The loans, issued through banks, provide up to $10 million to companies with fewer than 500 workers and can be used for salaries, rent, and other expenses. Much of the loan can be forgiven depending on the number employees the business can retain or rehire. The average loan size in Massachusetts was $221,000. While the program was aimed to help mom and pop businesses, big companies managed to score sizable loans.

According to an analysis by Reuters, more than 25 percent of the funding went to fewer than 2 percent of the firms that got relief....

AP: Publicly traded firms get $365M in small-business loans

https://apnews.com/6c5942eec36cc43b25ad5df5afebcfbd

Companies with thousands of employees, past penalties from government investigations and risks of financial failure even before the coronavirus walloped the economy were among those receiving millions of dollars from a relief fund that Congress created to help small businesses through the crisis, an Associated Press investigation found.

The Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to infuse small businesses, which typically have less access to quick cash and credit, with $349 billion in emergency loans that could help keep workers on the job and bills paid on time.

But at least 94 companies that disclosed receiving aid since the program opened April 3 were publicly traded, the AP found, some with market values well over $100 million. And about 25% of the companies had warned investors months ago — while the economy was humming along — that their ability to remain viable was in question....

Main Street bailout rewards U.S. restaurant chains, firms in rural states

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-lending-analys/main-street-bailout-rewards-u-s-restaurant-chains-firms-in-rural-states-idUSKBN21Z3FL

AS THE RICH GET RICHER THEY MAKE LAWS TO GIVE THEMSELVES THE BIG MUNEE, THEN THEY CHANGE THE LAWS TO GIVE THEMSELVES ALL THE MUNEE FOR THEIR FAKE DUMMY AND GHOST COMPANIES IN GREED WHICH MAKE IT APPEAR THAT THE SMALL BUSINESS SLAVE GETS SOME MUNEE BUT IN FACT GOES TO THE RICH MASTAS DISGUISED AS A SMALL BUSINESS IN NEED. MEANWHILE, THE JOHN SLAVES MIGHT GET A FEW CRUMBS THAT ASSUMES THE MASTAS HAVENT PUT THEM IN USA CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS OF THE CRIME OF EVERYTHING FIRST...

Warren calls for investigation of small business loan program, saying banks were ‘playing favorites’

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/24/business/warren-calls-investigation-small-business-loan-program-saying-banks-were-playing-favorites

Senator Elizabeth Warren and New York Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez are calling on inspectors general to launch an investigation into whether banks issuing federal loans for small businesses were “playing favorites” by giving preferential treatment to bigger customers....review the rollout of the SBA’s $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program to determine whether the agencies “included appropriate protections against waste, fraud, and abuse.”...called out JP Morgan Chase for favoring large clients by providing loans to its commercial banking customers first, while shutting out most of the bank’s smallest customers....The first round of the PPP has come under intense criticism since the money ran out on April 16, only 13 days after the program launched. Small business owners ― in lawsuits and through the media ― have complained about how loans went to the well-connected, even though the SBA designed the program as “first come, first served.”...

The Democrats also wanted to know whether companies with close ties to the Trump administration got these loans. On Thursday, the SBA updated PPP guidelines, saying that public companies must prove they need the money, and that is “unlikely” that a public company with substantial market value and access to capital markets would qualify for a loan....

HEY NIGGER. IF YOU HAVENT GOT YOUR GUBMINT LOAN YET ITS BECUZ THEY SENT IT TO THEIR SUPER RICH GOOD OL BOYS NETWORK....

SBA program reopens with new glitches, new scrutiny; NBA team returns loan money

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/04/27/sba-program-reopens-with-new-glitches-new-scrutiny-nba-team-returns-loan-money/sPhKFsH0E8HH4Hgmu3VmXK/story.html

WASHINGTON — The government’s small-business loan program received $310 billion in fresh funding last week but came under immediate pressure Monday as many bankers complained about new technology glitches and fresh questions were raised about the mostly anonymous list of beneficiaries.

As bankers expressed fury that the Small Business Administration’s online portal was faltering, the Los Angeles Lakers organization confirmed it had received a taxpayer-backed loan under the program in recent weeks. The NBA franchise said it was returning the $4.6 million, something several other well-off firms have done after their participation was revealed.

The Trump administration has tried to defend the program, which has now received almost $700 billion in congressionally appropriated funds, because it is meant to give taxpayer-backed, forgivable loans to companies if they retain or rehire workers during the pandemic. After more than 26 million Americans filed unemployment claims in less than two months, policy makers are trying to come up with programs to keep people employed.

But the program — known as the Paycheck Protection Program and operated by the Small Business Administration — has been overwhelmed, because of a surge in applications and the uneven process by which some companies receive loans and others do not.... At least $500 million went to large publicly held companies, according to a Washington Post analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission records. The program was initially funded with $349 billion, which ran out in less than two weeks.

Experts said they expected the second round of funding to run out within days....

THE SUPER RICH GOOD OL BOYS NETWORK OF NORTH DAKOTA REAP BIG REWARDS FOR THEMSELVES BECUZ NY, CALIFORNIA, LOUSIANA, AND OTHER HARD HIT STATES HAD A LOTTA DEATHS. UNFORTUNATELY THE SLAVES OF NORTH DAKOTA OF WHICH THE SBA LOANS WERE DESIGNED FOR HAVE NOT RECEIVED A PENNY...

Sen. Hoeven talks beating COVID-19 & economic stimulus package for N.D.

https://www.kxnet.com/news/sen-hoeven-talks-beating-covid-19-economic-stimulus-package-for-n-d/

Due to high demand, the funds ran out in less than a month. The original nearly $350 billion dollars set aside for the PPP was exhausted on April 16th. U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer told KX News that roughly $1.5 billion dollars was loaned to 11 thousand businesses in North Dakota as of April 23rd. There is already a back-log of PPP applications in North Dakota. Lawmakers encourage small businesses, including farmers and ranchers, to apply as soon as possible to get ahead of the curve....

Hoeven spearheaded a bipartisan legislation to provide $3 billion to purchase domestic oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR,) for which Hoeven noted will help with market demand. “So, first we had to end the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia and others that was putting downward prices on oil because of the COVID-19 virus. Now we have to make sure the President use his section 232 powers so we don’t have people dumping into our market undermining our industry,” explained Hoeven....

How did Plymouth County end up with $90 million in federal relief funds?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/29/metro/how-did-plymouth-county-end-up-with-90-million-federal-relief-funds/?et_rid=764134712&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter

Now the state wants the county to give the money to the state for distribution, and some local politicians wonder whether the commissioners have the expertise to dole out the money efficiently and fairly....three county commissioners aren’t budging, having voted unanimously on Tuesday to go forward with managing the massive fund after just eight minutes of discussion. “I have absolutely 100 percent certainty that we will launch this program quicker than the Commonwealth; we will be far more effective and cost-efficient with the money,” said County Commission chairman Daniel Pallotta during the meeting.

He offered no details about how the program would work, but said later that commissioners have hired the law firm Murphy, Hesse, Toomey and Lehane and the auditing firm Melanson Heath “to ensure the complete oversight and compliance” with the CARES Act. The vote effectively rebuffed state Administration & Finance officials who tried to persuade the county the state was far better equipped to administer the money....

Aside from Plymouth County and the state itself, Boston’s is the only other government that applied directly for the federal aid. Boston received $120 million. ...

Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from US taxpayers for room rentals

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2020/05/15/trump-company-has-received-least-from-taxpayers-for-room-rentals/72lGLMCgeSVIR9Bp7XxSzJ/story.html

WASHINGTON — The US government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs...Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were almost all related to trips taken by Trump, his family, and his top officials. The government is not known to have paid for the rooms for Trump and his family members at his properties but it has paid for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany him. The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency, and continued into this year, records show....The data is still incomplete. But it makes clear that Trump has received an unprecedented amount of payments from his own government.

‘‘It’s not just that there’s a huge amount of money being spent: We have no idea how much the actual figure is’’ because the records are released slowly and piecemeal, said Jordan Libowitz, of the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. ‘‘We don’t know what’s happening . . . only that the taxpayers are footing the bill for it.’’

MASTAS MAKE THE LAWS TO ALLOW THEMSELVES TO STEAL FROM THE TREASURY, AND TO FUND THEIR PET PROJECTS AT THEIR WILL. THATS DEMOCRACY REPRESENTED BY MASTAS FOR MASTAS UNDER THE DISGUISE OF HELPING THE NIGGERS...

DeVos funnels coronavirus relief funds to favored private and religious schools

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2020/05/15/devos-funnels-coronavirus-relief-funds-favored-private-and-religious-schools/d1EEyFCdDQY02OnXVcZkiP/story.html

And she has nearly depleted the 2.5 percent of higher-education funding, about $350 million, set aside for struggling colleges, to bolster small colleges — many of them private, religious, or on the margins of higher education...He said she had been “using a portion of that funding not to help states or localities cope with the crisis, but to augment her push for voucherlike programs, a prior initiative that has nothing to do with COVID-19.”...

The CARES Act promised money to prison inmates. Some are still waiting

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/19/opinion/cares-act-promised-money-prison-inmates-some-are-still-waiting

There was nothing in the legislation that barred prisoners from receiving the money.... But nearly eight months later, too many prisoners across the nation are waiting for their checks...The IRS started off on the right foot — paying $100 million in stimulus funds to nearly 85,000 prisoners. But in May, in a striking reversal, the federal agency issued new guidance that said incarcerated individuals did not qualify.... As a consequence, some state and federal prisons withheld payments that had already been earmarked for prisoners. In Kansas, more than $200,000 in stimulus for incarcerated individuals was intercepted, while Idaho and Montana seized more than $90,000 combined. But absent any CARES Act bar on stimulus checks for prisoners, the IRS guidance was unlawful. Prisoners’ advocates filed a class action lawsuit in August, and a month later a federal judge sided with the plaintiffs...

Even after the momentous court decision, some prisoners were unaware they could apply. And yet, the federal government seems to have been blocking advocates’ efforts to spread the word. For instance, two legal newsletters sent to thousands of federal inmates were suddenly banned by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, according to a report last month from the Marshall Project....

But the IRS hasn’t made it easy. In Middlesex county, the sheriff’s office received a package from the IRS on Nov. 2 with 1040 tax forms to distribute to inmates, with a requirement that they be postmarked by Nov. 4 — only two days later....

Trump’s preferred construction firm lands $1.3 billion border wall contract, the biggest so far

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2020/05/20/trump-preferred-construction-firm-lands-billion-border-wall-contract-biggest-far/0NYMWFTWLmNIYloNMqKrPI/story.html

A North Dakota construction firm that has received backing from President Trump has now secured the largest border wall contract ever awarded, a $1.3 billion deal to build 42 miles of black-painted fencing through the rugged mountains of southern Arizona.

The company that won the contract, Fisher Sand and Gravel, has been repeatedly lauded by the president in White House meetings with border officials and military commanders, the result of a long and personalized marketing pitch to Trump and ardent supporters of his barrier project....

LAWS R 4 RICH TO MAINTAIN THEIR STATUS QUO AND PROTECT THEIR POSITION THEY HAVE USURPED, AND TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF THEIR SLAVES. DEMOCRACY IS HYPOCRISY.

WORK HARDER SLAVES MILLIONAIRS ON WELFARE ARE COUNTING ON YOU.

CAN YOU FIND THE HYPOCRAT? ....

Trump donor’s book used racist language

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2020/06/18/trump-donor-book-used-racist-language/ucLU0feqU2hO4ZHAsQcjHN/story.html

‘‘slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.’’ Timothy Mellon, the 77-year-old founder of a rail and freight company...

Mellon called social safety net programs ‘‘Slavery Redux,’’ adding: ‘‘For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on. The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.’’...

The Wyoming-based donor, whose family fortune dates to the Gilded Age, gave his first major pro-Trump donation in April, with a $10 million check to America First Action, the main super PAC supporting the president’s reelection. His donations are the biggest known contributions to the group by far, and he is also a top donor to GOP congressional super PACs, according to campaign finance records....

His first major federal donation came in May 2018, when he gave $10 million to the super PAC that supports the House GOP.

Since February 2018, he has given $40 million to three super PACs, and tens of thousands of dollars more to an array of GOP candidates....

TOP HIGH SCKOOLS ARE WHITE SUPREMACIST RACIST NAZI SKOOLS THAT FAVOR WHITE KIDS AND DISCRIMINATE AGAINST EVERYONE ELSE....

At the high-ranked Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, a troubling pattern on issues of race

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/07/metro/high-ranked-mystic-valley-regional-charter-school-troubling-pattern-issues-race

Amid a nationwide outcry on racial injustice, an urgent chorus of voices is calling for change at Mystic Valley, a K-12 charter school ranked in April as the sixth best high school in the state by U.S. News and World Report. One alumni group gathered hundreds of signatures on a petition demanding a more diverse faculty and a restructuring of the school’s mission statement to “address issues of systemic discrimination.” Another group said it has compiled more than 150 examples of alleged incidents of racism and LGBT bias. On June 25, parents and students held a protest, waving signs as drivers honked their horns....

The Economic Costs of the U.S. Criminal Justice System

https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-economic-costs-of-the-u-s-criminal-justice-system/

The United States spends nearly $300 billion annually to police communities and incarcerate 2.2 million people.

The societal costs of incarceration—lost earnings, adverse health effects, and the damage to the families of the incarcerated—are estimated at up to three times the direct costs, bringing the total burden of our criminal justice system to $1.2 trillion.

Direct Costs:

Roughly half of these funds—$142.5 billion—are dedicated to police protection. The next largest share of this expense—$88.5 billion—is the cost of operating the nation’s prisons, jails, and parole and probation systems. The remainder—$64.7 billion—is spent on the judicial and legal systems. As shown in the following chart, local governments pay more than half of the total costs—mostly for policing, while the federal government pays just one-sixth. States spend the most on corrections, a reflection of the fact that nearly 60 percent of all detainees (1.3 million people) are held in state prisons.

Of course, these figures do not include the costs to individuals cited, arrested, and detained, or to their families. A 2015 report found that the average court costs for someone arrested was $13,607. Based on this estimate, the cost to the 2.2 million currently incarcerated individuals and their families would total $29.9 billion....

FRAUD AND ECONOMIC CRIMES AT RECORD HIGH IMMUNITY RATES....

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a White-Collar Criminal

https://newrepublic.com/article/158582/theres-never-better-time-white-collar-criminal

Just 359 new defendants were prosecuted for white-collar crime across all 94 federal districts, down 25 percent from five years before.... “white-collar crime” usually connotes various forms of financial fraud. TRAC, for instance, uses the term to describe “some form of fraud or anti-trust violations involving financial, insurance or mortgage institutions; health care providers; securities and commodities firms; or frauds committed in tax, federal procurement or federal programs among others.”...

“fraud and economic crime rates” are at “record highs.” The company estimated that this had resulted in $42 billion worth of losses in the last two years due to things like suspected tax fraud, money laundering and sanctions violations, bribery, and antitrust violations....In other words, we are not just talking about Wall Street fat cats or private equity raiders unscrupulously lining their own pockets. We are talking about widespread fraud, at every level of commerce, from offers of diet pills in your email inbox to tax fraud at multinational corporations.

It is well known and oft-repeated, for instance, that there were virtually no prosecutions of high-level corporate executives after the last financial crisis. Serious criminal investigations can take years under ordinary circumstances, and in particularly complex areas of the economy that were not being closely scrutinized by either Congress or executive branch agencies, white-collar prosecutors first have to try to learn how the markets work. They then face considerable challenges when trying to build cases around potential criminal misconduct in large and organizationally opaque companies that also happen to have virtually limitless resources to mount a defense. The system, at least as it is currently structured, is simply not well equipped to prosecute, say, an executive of a global bank that has legally traded in securities underwritten by mortgages procured by predatory lenders—or even the lenders themselves....

The Justice Department does not conduct surveys to gather data on the prevalence of white-collar crime (as it does for other crimes), but data from both public and private institutions is consistent on this point. ...In other words, we are not just talking about Wall Street fat cats or private equity raiders unscrupulously lining their own pockets. We are talking about widespread fraud, at every level of commerce, from offers of diet pills in your email inbox to tax fraud at multinational corporations....

Some of the people now at the top of the Justice Department are comically unfit....

Fewer and more lenient investigations and prosecutions are just one part of the story....

ComEd pays $200 million fine over alleged bribery scheme, CEO apologizes

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/comed-hearing-over-bribery-investigation-wednesday/

CHICAGO — ComEd executives apologized for the company’s admitted “wrongful conduct” in an alleged bribery scheme involving Illinois House Speaker Rep. Michael Madigan Wednesday. ...Earlier this month, ComEd agreed to pay a $200 million fine after federal prosecutors charged the utility with bribery, saying the company allegedly engaged in corrupt lobbying practices by sending lucrative contracts to Madigan’s supporters. In return, prosecutors said the company secured favorable legislation from Illinois lawmakers....The hearing comes one day after ComEd made its first appearance in court facing a new class-action consumer fraud lawsuit seeking $150 million in reimbursements for consumers....

Trump Oversees All-Time Low in White Collar Crime Enforcement

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/trump-oversees-all-time-low-in-white-collar-crime-enforcement

Donald Trump calls himself the “law and order” president, but when it comes to white collar crime, he has overseen a significant decline in enforcement. The prosecution of securities fraud, antitrust violations and other such crimes has hit a record low...

The administration has also brought fewer white collar racketeering and money-laundering cases, crimes that carry harsher penalties, he said. “All that is an indication that white collar crime is not a priority,”...

Coronavirus made the wealth gap worse. How long can a divided economy stand?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/05/business/coronavirus-made-wealth-gap-worse-how-long-can-divided-economy-stand

consumption accounts for 70 percent of the US economy, and either by government restriction or by choice, the novel coronavirus has altered consumer behavior.... At the other end of the economy, the pandemic has spawned a gold rush. Thanks to the stock market, American billionaires have seen their combined wealth surge nearly 33 percent, or $970 billion, since mid-March, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ fortune has grown about 83 percent, to $206.4 billion, over the past five months, while Tesla cofounder Elon Musk’s wealth has tripled to $93.3 billion....

LAW ABIDING CRIMINALS STEALING MO MUNEE FOR THEMSELVES TO PAY THEMSELVES $456,000 FOR EVERY JOB WHICH MEANS THE USA SLAVES PAY MASTA TO BE THEIR SLAVE. USA SUBSIDIZED SLAVERY IS SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH, AND SLAVERY FOR THE REST...

The City Commissioner Waging War on Corporate Welfare

https://fee.org/articles/meet-captain-no-the-city-commissioner-waging-war-on-corporate-welfare/

farm subsidies and other pork-barrel spending for his district.) These crony handouts often give politicians a shiny thing they can point to as an accomplishment... When politicians give big business handouts, they aren’t actually creating wealth. The productive capability of their local economy has not increased. Rather, they are simply creating the illusion of wealth by bribing corporations to make sweeping promises about job creation that rarely if ever materialize....One only needs to skim a few examples of corporate welfare in action to see why it’s a typically win-win for the powerful but a massive net loss for the public....

Suffice it to say this is not an efficient way to use taxpayer resources. But these examples aren’t crazy outliers. Rather, these kinds of dysfunctional outcomes are the normal result of corporate welfare schemes.

A 2013 report analyzed the nearly $65 billion in crony carve-outs state and local governments had handed out in the previous 35 years. Its conclusions were shocking: All in all, taxpayers paid out an average of $456,000 for every job created....

USA's RICHEST ARE THE BIGGEST LOSERS WHICH IS WHY USA RICHEST PAY NO TO LITTLE TAXES.

TO THE VICTIMS and LOSERS GO THE SPOILS...

Trump’s taxes show chronic losses and years of income tax avoidance

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/27/nation/trumps-taxes-show-chronic-losses-years-income-tax-avoidance

The tax returns that Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public. His reports to the IRS portray a businessman who takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet racks up chronic losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes.... The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Times’ findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks...

What is popularly known as the Trump Organization is in fact a collection of more than 500 entities...Three pages of his 1995 returns, mailed anonymously to The Times during the 2016 campaign, showed that Trump had declared losses of $915.7 million, giving him a tax deduction that could have allowed him to avoid federal income taxes for almost two decades.... 2014 tax return....fourth year in a row that he had not paid a penny of federal income taxes. Trump’s avoidance of income taxes is one of the most striking discoveries in his tax returns,...But the tax code offers a workaround: With some restrictions, business owners can carry forward leftover losses to reduce taxes in future years....1995 return showed, the nearly $1 billion in losses from his early-1990s collapse generated a tax deduction that he could use for up to 18 years going forward....

he attributed the red ink to depreciation, which he said in a tweet would show “losses in almost all cases” and that “much was non monetary.” “I love depreciation,” Trump said during a presidential debate in 2016.... Trump paid alternative minimum tax in seven years between 2000 and 2017... Each time, he requested an extension to file his 1040; and each time, he made the required payment to the IRS for income taxes he might owe — $1 million for 2016 and $4.2 million for 2017. But virtually all of that liability was washed away when he eventually filed, and most of the payments were rolled forward to cover potential taxes in future years. To cancel out the tax bills, Trump made use of $9.7 million in business investment credits...Although he had more than enough credits to owe no taxes at all, his accountants appear to have carved out an allowance for a small tax liability for both 2016 and 2017. When they got to line 56, the one for income taxes due, the amount was the same each year: $750....

In fact, confidential records show that starting in 2010 he claimed, and received, an income tax refund totaling $72.9 million — all the federal income tax he had paid for 2005 through 2008, plus interest.... Trump had paid no income taxes in 2008. But the change meant that when he filed his taxes for 2009, he could seek a refund of not just the $13.3 million he had paid in 2007 but also the combined $56.9 million paid in 2005 and 2006...

His total federal income tax refund would eventually grow to $70.1 million, plus $2,733,184 in interest. He also received $21.2 million in state and local refunds, which often piggyback on federal filings....

The language was crucial. Trump was using the precise wording of IRS rules governing the most beneficial, and perhaps aggressive, method for business owners to avoid taxes when separating from a business. A partner who walks away from a business with nothing — what tax laws refer to as abandonment — can suddenly declare all the losses on the business that could not be used in prior years....

The Art of the Write-Off: Hair stylists, table linens, property taxes on a family estate — all have been deducted as business expenses....

AS THE RICH MASTAS LEGALLY STEAL MO MUNEE FOR THEMSELVES FROM THEIR LAWMAKING

PUTS THE SLAVES DEEPER IN DEBT TO PAY FOR MASTA'S THEFTS...

US budget deficit hit $3.1 trillion amid virus spending surge

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/16/nation/us-budget-deficit-hit-31-trillion-amid-virus-spending-surge/

The federal budget deficit soared to a record $3.1 trillion in the 2020 fiscal year...

THE RICH CAN STILL BUY A NIGGER, AND ANY SLAVE THEY WANT TO BUY BECUZ THEY OWN THE SLAVE AUCTIONS, AND THEY MAKE THE SLAVE LAWS.

MASTAS CAN USE THE LAWS THEY MAKE TO GIB THEM MO SLAVES, AND PROTECT THEIR MASTA STATUS IN SLAVE LANDS BY USING THEIR CORRUPT LAW...

The U.S. keeps erecting immigration barriers. Rich elites can maneuver around them

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article243460476.html

But as it has over many years and administrations, one group continues to mostly slip through the cracks: Latin American elites, including a who’s who of Miami-based high-ranking government officials and business tycoons, often stay a step ahead of legal authorities. They are able to leverage their fortunes and connections to secure visas, green cards and asylum.... An investigation by the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald, in conjunction with Mexico’s Aristegui Noticias and a group of independent journalists in Colombia, documents how rich foreign nationals from Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela, guided by a network of lawyers, real estate agents and bankers, have managed to stiff-arm U.S. immigration authorities and build up their financial portfolios while thwarting prosecutors back home.... “Inadmissible immigrants” include those who have engaged in terrorism, drug or human trafficking, genocide, or money laundering. But loopholes are plentiful. Exclusions can be waived if a secretary of state believes that enforcing the rules would have adverse foreign policy consequences.

Influence and money — especially to hire an in-the-know attorney — can overcome the rules...those with legal representation were successful....

Wealthy expatriates from Latin America enjoy an advantage over other immigrants. To protect and manage their assets and immigration status, they can avail themselves of a constellation of highly regarded lawyers, as well as real estate agents and other service providers, along with LLCs created with relatives. Unless specifically indicated in pop-up descriptions, nothing below is meant to connote illegality. Only connections: ...

North Dakota coronavirus news, Oct. 28: Federal farm aid piles up

https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/health/north-dakota-coronavirus-news-oct-28-federal-farm-aid-piles-up/article_95c512be-7d1f-5f99-8553-f86e0fe24dc4.html

Federal farm aid

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved nearly $246 million in aid to North Dakota farmers so far through the second round of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.

The program is providing direct payments nationwide to farmers and ranchers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Payments are capped at $250,000 per producer. More than 160 commodities are eligible.

The government has approved more than $7 billion in payments in the first month of the second round application period. More than 443,000 applications have been approved nationally; about 9,900 were from North Dakota.

“This program builds upon the over $10 billion disbursed under the first round of CFAP," U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.

Up to $14 billion is available in this round. Applications are accepted through Dec. 11.

The aid is coming from two funding sources: the federal CARES Act economic rescue package to compensate for losses due to price declines, and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to compensate for losses due to market disruptions.

COIVD-19 relief package contains $13 billion for farmers

https://ndfu.org/coivd-19-relief-package-contains-13-billion-for-farmers/

Yesterday evening’s congressional passage of $900 billion in COVID-19 relief aid includes $13 billion for American farmers and ranchers....The assistance will be distributed as a supplement to Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) payments. Approximately $11.2 billion will be in the form of direct payments and other support to producers and processors. Row crop farmers can expect to receive $20 an acre, and cattle producers will receive a top-up payment to cover gaps in CFAP 1 and CFAP 2.

Additionally, Watne said the package contains $28 million for farm stress programs administered by state departments of agriculture; a 15% increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits and additional funding for food banks and hunger programs; and authorization for the secretary of agriculture to provide direct support to biofuel plants.

UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA TWO TIER LEGAL SYSTEM:

MASTAS=IMMUNITY. SLAVES=WRONGFUL CONVICTION

INNOCENT SLAVES = PLEAD GUILTY NIGGAZ = BAD GUYS

GUILTY MASTAS = IMMUNITY = LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS

Trump commutes Philip Esformes' prison sentence

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-philip-esformes-fraud-trump-clemency-commutation-20201223-tfn7rveawzdhjmhee6hx7eoccm-story.html

Chicago-area nursing home mogul Philip Esformes was once called the “king” of Medicaid fraud, accused of cycling elderly, destitute and drug-addicted patients through his network of facilities and billing millions of dollars to government programs, often for services never rendered, according to federal prosecutors. In sentencing Esformes to 20 years in prison last year, a federal judge in Miami called the length and scope of his criminal conduct “unmatched in our community, if not the country” and an “epic” violation of trust. Now, Esformes, 52, is a free man, released from a Florida prison on Tuesday after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, granting clemency to 20 people in all. The group included former Republican members of Congress; military contractors convicted of killing civilians in Iraq; and Chicagoan George Papadopoulos, a campaign aide who pleaded guilty to making false statements in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Esformes was arrested in 2016 at his Miami estate and charged with a massive $1.3 billion Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme that at the time was billed by the U.S. Justice Department as the largest single criminal health care fraud case ever brought....

Trump grants clemency to 20 people, including three former GOP members of Congress and two men convicted in the Russia probe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-papadopoulos-trump-pardon/2020/12/22/822f038e-30f4-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html#click=https://t.co/GMqB5EjVnQ

The first batch released Tuesday night shows how the president is using the power of his office to undo the work of the Russia probe that shadowed much of his term, undercut major cases that took on political corruption and wave away the crimes of Americans convicted of participating in a massacre during the Iraq War.

Democrats accused Trump of abusing his pardon power to reward allies and undermine the rule of law.

“If you lie to cover up for the President, you get a pardon,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “If you are a corrupt politician who endorsed Trump, you get a pardon. If you murder civilians while at war, you get a pardon.”...

Trump’s decision to pardon elected officials who had admitted wrongdoing — as well as prominent business executives who had engaged in fraud and other white-collar crimes...

Trump's latest batch of pardons favors the well-connected

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/trump-issues-batch-of-11th-hour-pardons-450196

NY prosecutor hires forensic accounting firm as probe of Trump escalates

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/29/nation/ny-prosecutor-hires-forensic-accounting-firm-probe-trump-escalates

NEW YORK — The Manhattan district attorney’s office has retained forensic accounting specialists to aid its criminal investigation of President Trump and his business operations, as prosecutors ramp up their scrutiny of his company’s real estate transactions, according to people familiar with the matter. District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. opened the investigation in 2018 to examine alleged hush-money payments made to two women who, during Trump’s first presidential campaign, claimed to have had affairs with him years earlier. The probe has since expanded and now includes the Trump Organization’s activities more broadly, said the people....Additionally, the president faces separate defamation lawsuits brought by two women who have accused him of sexual assault. His niece, Mary L. Trump, is suing him and his siblings, as well, over a multimillion-dollar inheritance dispute. He’s also being sued by the tenants of several apartment buildings his family once owned, and by people who say they saw little to no profit after joining a multilevel marketing organization touted by Trump and his children...

BILLIONAIRES ON WELFARE GET THE MOST WELFARE. JUST LOOK AT THE DV VIRUS BILLS FOR EXAMPLE. THE SLAVES GET LESS THAN A PERCENT FOR EVERY DULLA THE RICH GET. THE FARMERS AND OTHER BILLIONAIRES GET THE ENTIRE LOAF IN HOPES THE NIGGERS AND SLAVES GIT A FEW CRUMBS THAT FALL WHILE IN TRANSIT....

World’s richest men added billions to their fortunes last year as others struggled

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/01/business/worlds-richest-men-added-billions-their-fortunes-last-year-others-struggled

The pandemic has forced untold hardships onto many Americans, with tens of millions of families now reporting that they don’t have enough to eat and millions more out of work on account of layoffs and lockdowns. America’s wealthiest, on the other hand, had a very different kind of year: Billionaires as a class have added about $1 trillion to their total net worth since the pandemic began.... In 2018, for instance, the 10 wealthiest people donated an average of less than 1 percent of their net worth to charitable causes...

The evident difficulty of getting billionaire wealth to trickle down to everyone else is a challenge for policy makers in our new gilded era. The runaway accumulation of riches at a time of widespread deprivation and hardship is one of the widely recognized drivers of democratic decline. Most political scientists believe the erosion has already started.

Our ability to reverse that erosion will depend, in part, on whether the staggering amounts of money flowing to the top of society can be put to work to improve the lives of those at the bottom.

USA 2 TIER LEGAL SYSTEM...

Pardoning elected officials sends the wrong message

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/531679-pardoning-elected-officials-sends-the-wrong-message

The Constitution grants the president unique authority to pardon or commute the sentences of federal violators... President Trump has exercised it less than most. He has so far pardoned or commuted the sentences of fewer than 100 people...

By contrast, President Obama pardoned 212 people and commuted the sentences of 1,715 convicted federal felons. President Obama’s total commutations exceeded the 13 presidents who came before him and President Trump put together....

Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff delivered a verbal one-two punch when a Fox News crew approached him at a campaign stop on live TV

https://www.businessinsider.com/ga-democratic-senate-candidate-jon-ossoff-goes-after-loeffler-fox-2020-12

Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challenger to Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, took a jab at Georgia's two Republican US senators ahead of next week's runoff elections.

Ossoff ripped Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler on Wednesday and accused them of "blatantly" using their offices to "enrich themselves."

Both Perdue and Loeffler were investigated on suspicion of insider trading but were never charged.

Ossoff also described attacks on Loeffler's Democratic challenger Rev. Raphael Warnock as ploys to distract attention from Loeffler "campaigning" with a former Klansman.

Loeffler was photographed earlier this month with Chester Doles, a former KKK chief who is a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, but denied knowing who he was.

The Democratic US Senate candidate Jon Ossoff took the opportunity to slam Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia after a Fox News crew approached him during a live broadcast.

Ossoff is facing Perdue in one of two US Senate runoffs in Georgia that conclude next week, with control of the Senate at stake, and he called on the Fox News audience to look beyond partisanship ahead of Election Day.

"We have two United States senators in Georgia who have blatantly used their offices to enrich themselves," Ossoff said. "This is beyond partisanship. And the reason to your question that I talk about health and jobs and justice for all the people is that we can unite behind that program."... His claims that the two Republicans were using their positions to enrich themselves stem from Loeffler's and Perdue's history of buying and selling stocks while in office. The US Justice Department began an investigation into Loeffler after she sold millions of dollars in stock in January following a private briefing on the coronavirus. Loeffler, a multimillionaire, is also married to the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. The investigation did not lead to charges...

THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW IN USA CONSTITUTION AND EQUAL RIGHTS LAWS SAYS ALL NIGGERS AND WIMIN ARE ALL POOR AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST MUST GIT GUBMINT PIMP MUNEE. AND ALL WHITE PEOPLE AND MEN ARE ALL RICH AND DONT NEED ANY GUBMINT PIMP MUNEE. BUT IF RACE DOESNT EXIST, AND ALL GENDERS ARE THE SAME HOW DO THE RACISTS AND SEXISTS DETERMINE WHOSE A NIGGER AND WHOSE A WIMIN? ....

Small businesses owned by people of color dominate new Mass. grants programs

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/21/business/small-businesses-owned-by-people-color-dominate-new-mass-grants-programs

About 95 percent of the winners in the first round of two state grant programs to help small businesses get through the pandemic are owned by people of color, and 76 percent are owned by women....The program was wildly oversubscribed, with more than 10,000 small businesses applying for the grants. One of the programs provides grants for up to $75,000 for businesses with 50 or fewer employees, while the other offers up to $25,000 to businesses with five or fewer workers. The administration made it clear that businesses owned by women, people of color, and veterans, as well as those in so-called gateway cities, would be prioritized, along with those that have not received prior federal aid....

A $6,300 Bus. A $33 Last Meal. What New Documents Tell Us About Trump’s Execution Spree

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/01/14/a-6-300-bus-a-33-last-meal-what-new-documents-tell-us-about-trump-s-execution-spree

Records providing details of the spending, which the American Civil Liberties Union estimates totaled nearly $4.7 million over two months, were released under the federal Freedom of Information Act. “The government is doing so much of this in the dark, so we don’t always get to see the full weight of what it’s up to,” said Cassy Stubbs, director of the ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project. “They’re willing to go to extraordinary lengths in terms of spending our money and then hiding the footprints of it.” ...The guards told him they’d come in from out-of-state, he said, and records show the bureau spent roughly $3.1 million on unidentified costs associated with the staff it brought in from more than two dozen prisons across the country. The Bureau of Prisons refused to comment on the payment records or to answer questions about the operations outlined in the documents....

WHEN LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS AKA MASTAS BREAK THE LAW THE SLAVES PAY....

New York City Paid an NBA Star Millions After an NYPD Officer Broke His Leg. The Officer Paid Little Price.

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-paid-an-nba-star-millions-after-an-nypd-officer-broke-his-leg.-the-officer-paid-little-price

New York City has paid more than $1 billion over the past five years to settle lawsuits against the NYPD, according to data released by the city. ProPublica examined dozens of the biggest payouts in cases where civilians had also filed complaints with the city agency that reviews alleged police abuse. Again and again, the officers faced minimal or no discipline....

THE GOOD OL BOYS NETWORK, THE CLIQUE OF CORRUPTION. IF YOU AINT IN IT YOU ARE A BAD GUY.

LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY PARDONS LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS WHICH MEAN THE CRIMINALS WITH IMMUNITY ARE LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS...

Trump's pardons: Full list of clemencies granted during his presidency

https://nypost.com/article/trump-presidential-pardons-full-list/

President Trump has granted clemency to nearly 90 people since taking office...

Here’s the full, chronological list of everyone who’s been granted clemency by the nation’s 45th president:...

Local Spending on Jails Tops $25 Billion in Latest Nationwide Data

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2021/01/local-spending-on-jails-tops-%2425-billion-in-latest-nationwide-data

Costs increased despite falling crime and fewer people being admitted to jail...

A 20% decrease in crime and a 19% drop in jail admissions since 2007 had not led to reduced jail spending....Small localities spent more per capita on jails than most other jurisdictions, despite having lower crime rates....In 2017, local governments spent 521% more on corrections than they did in 1977.... Jail costs were 13% higher in 2017 than 2007...During that same span, jails accounted for roughly 84 cents of every local government dollar spent on corrections....Counties that operate jails spent roughly 6% of their local funds, or 1 in 17 dollars, on jails in 2017, making jails their sixth-largest expense category.12 Jails consumed about a third of all county public safety dollars....The average annual cost of a year in jail was about $34,000 per person in 2017....Operating expenses such as personnel, utilities, and health care made up 97% of jail costs....When comparing localities by size, jurisdictions with populations of less than 50,000 people, which are generally more rural, had the lowest crime rate but paid the second-highest amount per resident on jails....

EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW IS DEFINED BY COLOR, GENDER, AND CLASS. NIGGERS, HOS, FARMERS AND THE RICH QUALIFY FOR MORE WELFARE FOR THE RICH. AND MOST OFTEN THE ACTUAL TARGETS OF SPECIAL INTEREST PROGRAMS DONT RECIEVE THE BENEFITS, WHILE THOSE NOT INTENDED GOBBLE UP ALL THE FUNDS. ONE REASON THE PPP WAS CLOSED UP BECUZ MANY WERE FRAUDULENTLY APPLYING AND GETTING THE MUNEE WHILE THE REAL ACTUAL BUSINESS OWNER RECEIVING NUTHING. USA LEGAL SYSTEM WORKS THE SAME WHERE THE ACTUAL GUILTY ARE REWARDED AND THE ACTUAL INOCENT ARE PUNISHED....

Massachusetts restaurants received nearly $1 billion in federal relief aid, but many were shut out

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/12/business/restaurant-owners-left-wanting-more-federal-relief-fund

In April, the federal government allocated $28.6 billion in grants for restaurants in the American Rescue Plan, and put businesses owned by women and people of color first in line.... “The Revitalization Fund was supposed to help all these business get out of the quicksand,” Straughter said. “But it didn’t work for me.”... three-quarters of them didn’t access the funds... “It’s like, ‘This was supposed to be for us.’ ”...

Many advocates hesitated to speak openly about their frustrations — partly because Massachusetts fared fairly well, receiving $993 million, more than all but five other states. A total of 2,556 businesses here were awarded grants, out of some 6,867 applicants. And the average award was $388,000, the highest in the country.

On Friday, SBA released a full database of recipients. In Massachusetts, they ranged from a handful of large restaurant and catering groups that received $10 million apiece to food stand operators who got less than $2,000.

In all, the SBA handed out awards to 101,004 restaurants. It received 278,000 applications asking for a total of $72 billion. Now, 177,000 applicants who qualified are still waiting for over $43 billion in outstanding funding....

“We’re all in the same boat. We were all forced to close,” he said. “I feel badly for restaurants that need to access additional funds that weren’t able to get it.”...

North Dakota Farm Subsidy Information

https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=38000&regionname=NorthDakota

Commodity Programs: ($9.48 billion) Conservation Programs: ($2.61 billion)

Disaster Programs: ($2.17 billion) Crop Insurance Subsidies: ($8.73billion)

Farmers received $23.0 billion in subsidies 1995-2020 (seventh).

According to a Washington Post study of the EWG database https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/20/trumps-farmer-bailout-has-given-21-billion-red-counties-21-billion-blue-ones/ , Cass County received more money from Trump's two Market Facilitation Payments in 2018-19 than any other county in the United States: $88 million. The same study showed Steele County received more money per resident than any other county in the U.S.: $15,600.

You might recognize one of the larger recipients of government handouts in Cass County. Dalrymple Farms received $502,067 in 2019 and $686,320 in 2020. The Dalrymple family is one of the largest landowners in the state. Jack Dalrymple was governor from 2010-16.

The EWG's figures don't yet reflect the COVID-19 stimulus approved in December 2020. Nor do they reflect the double-, triple- and quadruple-dipping some families are doing on the same piece of land.

Farm programs are out of whack. The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasted farm income to increase 43% in 2020 while direct government payments were forecasted to increase 107%.

It's all taxpayer Monopoly money.

Minnesota Farm Subsidy Information

https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=27000

Commodity Programs: ($14.3 billion) Conservation Programs: ($2.98 billion)

Disaster Programs: ($837 million) Crop Insurance Subsidies: ($6.51billion)

Farmers received $24.7 billion in subsidies 1995-2020 (ranking fourth among the 50 states)...

CRIME PAYS WHICH IS WHY PRESS, GUBMINT, AND LAW USE FEAR MONGERING TO FOOL THE STUPID MASSES INTO THINKING CRIME IS WORSE THAN THEIR FABRICATIONS. THE MORE CRIME THE DOMESTIC ENMIES FABRICATE THE MO MUNEE IN THEIR POCKETS. IT ALSO PUSHES AGENDAS ESPECIALLY DENIAL OF RIGHTS, AND INCREASES SLAVE POPULATION....

There Is No National Crime

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/there-no-national-crime/619506/

Americans are overestimating crime, even when they say crime in their neighborhoods hasn’t changed.

Americans are freaked out about crime in the United States. As many as eight in 10 say it’s a major problem. They rank it ahead of health care and poverty, perennial priorities. Solid majorities believe that crime is worse today than it was 30 years ago, which is not even close to true... 62 percent of Americans believed (correctly) that crime had gotten worse in the United States... 59 percent saw crime as a serious problem nationally... Gallup recorded the largest difference ever: 78 percent of Americans said crime was rising year over year nationwide...

Politicians could take worries about national crime as a cue to pursue blunt and simplistic answers of the past, including stricter sentencing and over-policing....

Opinion polls have long shown that Americans overestimate the level of crime in the country...Even amid a historic decline in crime rates, majorities in surveys said they believed that crime was on the rise. Much of the blame for this misperception likely falls on the press.... Politicians are happy to appeal to misperceptions about crime nationally....

Fear drives bad policy, especially overblown fear. In the case of crime, it pushes toward harsh punishments and more incarceration, even though the evidence that these tactics deter crime is limited. When crime scares you but isn’t in your neighborhood, supporting drastic measures is much easier....

CRIME PAYS. LAW = LEGAL THEFT. THE MORE LAW FABRICATES CRIMES OF EVERYTHING PUTS MORE MUNEEE IN THE POCKETS OF LAW PROFESSIONALS AKA AS SLAVE MARKET....

Monetary Sanctions as a Pound of Flesh

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/monetary-sanctions-pound-flesh

America has established a two-tiered system of justice: one for people with financial means and one for people without.... Few aspects of the criminal legal system illustrate that as vividly as the system of monetary sanctions, which requires financial payments from most people who make contact with the criminal legal system. In addition to fines associated with specific offenses, they are charged for their court processing, for DNA testing, for required post-sentencing rehabilitative programs (such as drug and alcohol assessment and treatment), and even in some instances for the costs of incarceration itself. To use Travis and Western’s measure, the relationship between the state and citizen in this country, particularly when the citizen is poor or racialized, is one of control, marginalization, and perpetual punishment....

Since the 1980s, paralleling the massive growth in convictions and incarceration, state and local jurisdictions expanded the types of fees and fines demanded of people convicted of traffic violations, juvenile offenses, misdemeanors, and felonies. At the same time, the cost to local jurisdictions of the expanding conviction and incarceration rate accelerated as well. As a result, policymakers turned to the very people convicted to pay for the costs of their own processing and punishments....

In some states, judges have actually been granted discretion to assess criminal defendants for the cost of a public defender — in other words, an individual who cannot afford to pay a lawyer is expected to pay for the lawyer that the state is constitutionally required to provide. Furthermore, many jurisdictions charge per night in jail or prison. For those too poor to pay, interest, per payment fees, and nonpayment penalties become penal debt that hangs like a cloud over their families’ lives.

Many states also allow cities and counties to engage in contracts with private collection companies, and when debt is transferred to these agencies, additional collection fees are assessed — as much as 50 percent of the principal owed. These public-private debt collection arrangements affect the individuals’ credit scores, limit their employment opportunities, and inhibit their ability to access housing, education, and transportation. The price of services such as telephone calls, electronic communication, video visitation, and health care include kickbacks from the private companies to local jurisdictions — the price the collection agencies pay to win exclusive contracts.

The system of monetary sanctions reinforces our two-tiered system of justice: one for people with financial means and one for people without....

Because local governments have come to rely so heavily on revenue generated from fines and fees, traffic citations have become a tool for profit-making. This “pocketbook policing” encourages police to use their authority and discretion to make “pretextual” traffic stops...

NORTH DAKOTA LAWS R MADE FOR THE RICH BY THE RICH. IN ARISTOCRATIC OLIGARCHY SOCIALIST NORTH DAKOTA EVERY DAY IS A DISASTER WHICH IS WHY MASTAS AND FARMERS ARE SO RICH....

Hoeven: FY22 Ag Appropriations Includes More Than $7 Billion in Disaster Assistance for Farmers and Ranchers | U.S. Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota

https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-fy22-ag-appropriations-includes-more-than-7-billion-in-disaster-assistance-for-farmers-and-ranchers

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, today announced that he included more than $7 billion in disaster assistance to help farmers and ranchers with losses due to drought and other natural disasters as part of the Senate’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations bill....

MASTA GITS RICH BY MAKING THE SLAVE LAWS THAT PAY HIM, WHILE ENSLAVING THE REST...

North Dakota lawmakers hash out differences over state's record spending

https://www.inforum.com/incoming/7151669-North-Dakota-lawmakers-hash-out-differences-over-states-record-spending

North Dakota Legislature butted heads Thursday, Aug. 12, over the state’s record-breaking government spending....approved a $16.9 billion budget for the next two years...

which marks the state's highest spending allocation ever....North Dakota government spending has ballooned by a factor of 2.5 since 2007...“We've got corporate welfare and cronyism all over the place,”...

White-Collar Crime Prosecutions Continue 20-Year Decline

https://thecrimereport.org/2021/08/10/white-collar-crime-prosecutions-continue-to-decline/

White-collar crime prosecutions continued their two-decade decline in 2021, plummeting from 9,507 prosecutions in 2001 to a projected 4,727 prosecutions in 2021....

But placed in context, 2021 prosecution case numbers confirm a long-term trend: white-collar crime prosecutions have declined dramatically over the past 20 years. The number of prosecutions dropped by 50.3 percent between 2001 and 2021, especially declining during the Trump administration....

LAWS MADE BY ARISTOCRATS, TYRANTS, DESPOTS, USURPERS, RICH 4 THE RICH WITHOUT DISSENT BECUZ DISSENT CANNOT OCCUR IF IT IS MADE ILLEGAL, UNKNOWN, CONCEALED, VOLUMINOUS AND INCOHERANT, UNDER EMERGENCY DECREE, SAME DAY PASSAGE, ETC...

I PROPOSE LAW THAT GIBS ME 10 MILLION DULLAS, AND 10 MILLION TO SLAVE PATROL TO ENFORCE THAT LAW BY KILLING AND ARRESTING ANYONE WHO OPPOSES MY LAW. PASSED. NEXT BILL....

The Pace of Passage: How Quickly City Council Makes Laws and What That Means for Clevelanders

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2021/10/04/the-pace-of-passage-how-quickly-city-council-makes-laws-and-what-that-means-for-clevelanders

“What are your thoughts on what constitutes adequate public notice and public participation?”... Between January 2020 and May 2021, Cleveland City Council voted to suspend its own rules and shorten the legislative process 99.5 percent of the time... Council passed legislation the same day it was introduced nearly a third of the time. The introduction of legislation is often the first opportunity for the public to learn about it. ...

council authorized the city to use the first wave of funding — $1,428,571 — by passing legislation the day it was introduced in June 2020. It covered overtime pay, benefits, computers and undercover police cars.... Council approved the second wave of funding...provided nearly $8 million for three years’ worth of salary for 30 police officers. There was no public comment at those meetings.... For council, a question of power and time...

A closer look at legislation passed on introduction: Council passed 584 ordinances and emergency ordinances between January 2020 and May 2021. Ninety-six percent passed without a single vote against them, according to the Cleveland Documenters review of The City Record. A nearly identical pattern emerged among the votes on suspending the rules. Out of about 9,000 opportunities for council members to vote on suspension, they tallied 36 nay votes, none of which ever combined for enough votes to prevent suspension. Cleveland Documenters honed in on the 26 percent of legislation that council passed in the same meeting it was introduced... All the items passed the first time they were read were also emergency ordinances. More than half authorized the use of casino revenue funds, which are a portion of the 5 percent of casino tax revenue that the City of Cleveland gets each year that council members get to spend. In 2020, it was about $9.7 million....

Council also passed several items the same day they were introduced that carry citywide impact, including handing over its authority to approve some vendors and their compensation to the city’s Board of Control, which is made up of members of the mayor’s cabinet and city department heads... In 2020, council also passed legislation on introduction that authorized the city to get $250,000 from the State of Ohio — plus an $83,333 match from the city — for the operation of the Northern Ohio Law Enforcement Task Force (NOLETF), a coordination of regional law enforcement agencies focused on reducing drug trafficking and other drug-related crimes....

GUBMINT PIMP USES BRIBERY & UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE TO PAY ITS WHORES TO LIE FOR THEM...

A free press doesn’t take government handouts

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/24/opinion/free-press-doesnt-take-government-handouts

Tucked into the massive spending and tax legislation currently before Congress is a trio of tax subsidies, collectively dubbed the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. Sponsored by more than 70 senators and representatives from both parties, they are intended to give a financial boost to local newspapers and other media outlets. One of the tax breaks is a credit of up to $5,000 for businesses that advertise in a local paper. A second would let individuals who pay for a newspaper subscription lop as much as $250 from their tax bill. The third and most lucrative would give publishers a hefty tax break for each journalist on their payroll. The credit, worth $25,000 in the first year and $15,000 annually thereafter, would be refundable, meaning that a publisher who owed less in taxes than the credit was worth would receive the difference from the Internal Revenue Service in the form of a refund check....

the news media is now among the least trusted institutions in society — not quite as reviled as Congress, but close — and government subsidies will only add to the skepticism... When government singles out an industry for lucrative special treatment, I have contended, it frequently worsens the problem it set out to solve or squanders money to no good effect.... Subsidies nearly always amount to confiscating money from the many in order to redistribute it to the few.... a midsized regional news outlet employing 50 journalists could expect to clear roughly $1 million a year in government subsidies under the proposed legislation... “A government that props up the media,”...“inevitably leads to a media that props up the government.” If keeping the subsidy spigot open means staying on good terms with certain politicians, how likely will the paper be to cover stories the politicians don’t want covered?...

WHITE SUPREMACIST RACISTS GIB $4 BILLION DULLAS OF DEBT RELIEF TO NIGGERS BECUZ NIGGERS ARE BLACK, A RESULT OF INTERBREEDING WITH APES IN AFRICA. ALSO BECUZ ALL WHITES ENSLAVED ALL NIGGERS. BUT THE WHITE SUPREMACIST RACISTS IN WISCONSIN, NORTH DAKOTA, OREGON, AND ILLNOISE SAY THAT RICH NIGGER FARMERS WILL GET RICHER RESULTING IN POOR STRUGGLING WHITE FARMERS COULD GO OUT OF BUSINESS....

Black farmers fear foreclosure as debt relief remains frozen

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/21/nation/black-farmers-fear-foreclosure-debt-relief-remains-frozen

WASHINGTON — For Brandon Smith, a fourth-generation cattle rancher from Texas, the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that President Biden signed into law nearly a year ago was long-awaited relief....The legislation included $4 billion of debt forgiveness for Black and other “socially disadvantaged” farmers, a group that has endured decades of discrimination from banks and the federal government...

The law was intended to help remedy years of discrimination that nonwhite farmers have endured, including land theft and the rejection of loan applications by banks and the federal government. The program designated aid to about 15,000 borrowers who receive loans directly from the federal government or have their bank loans guaranteed by the USDA....The payments, which also are supposed to cover tax liabilities and fees associated with clearing the debt,...

Banks were unhappy that the loans would be repaid early, depriving them of interest payments. Groups of white farmers in Wisconsin, North Dakota, Oregon, and Illinois sued the Agriculture Department, arguing that offering debt relief on the basis of skin color is discriminatory, suggesting that a successful Black farmer could have his debts cleared while a struggling white farm could go out of business....

RUN UP MASS DEBT THEN WORK FOR GUBMINT PIMP AND YOUR DEBT WILL BE ERASED AND PAID BY THE SLAVES. POOR SUCKERS WHO HAVE ALREADY PAID THEIR DEBT, AND DONT WORK FOR THE ENEMY...

WA Bill Would Help Public Workers Navigate Loan-Forgiveness Program

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2022-02-18/education/wa-bill-would-help-public-workers-navigate-loan-forgiveness-program/a77918-2

Workers in public service have a federal program at their disposal which could help wipe away student debt, but many struggle to apply. A bill in the Washington state Legislature aims to fix it...

Opinion | Biden Says ‘Fund the Police.’ Well, They Aren’t Exactly Hurting for Cash.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/opinion/the-police-arent-exactly-running-out-of-cash.html

law enforcement spending as a share of general expenditures rose slightly, from 13.6 percent in 2020 to 13.7 percent in 2021, https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-city-budget-police-funding/ Blasio approved for fiscal year 2022 a $200 million increase in police spending.... This year the Austin Police Department budget stands at $442 million, a record high.... Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, proposed an $11.2 billion budget that increased funding for the L.A.P.D., to $1.76 billion for fiscal year 2022 from $1.71 billion for fiscal year 2021. In Baltimore, likewise, police funding grew to $555 million for 2022, a $28 million increase from the previous fiscal year....

there is no real relationship between crime rates and police budgets. As Philip Bump observed for The Washington Post in 2020: “More spending in a year hasn’t significantly correlated to less crime or to more crime. For violent crime, in fact, the correlation between changes in crime rates and spending per person in 2018 dollars is almost zero.”... There does remain, however, a pressing, national need for police accountability. In theory, the police are subordinate to elected officials. In practice, police departments in many areas exist beyond democratic control. That’s especially true in states where police contracts and state law make it difficult, if not impossible, to remove bad or abusive officers from their jobs....

NIGGER LIVES MATTER ARE A NONPROFIT CHARITY FOR THE RICH NIGGERS...

Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million House Allies and critics alike have questioned where the organization’s money has gone.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/black-lives-matter-6-million-dollar-house.html

four homes for nearly $3 million. The disclosures had contributed to the idea that there is a disturbing gap between the fortunes of the movement’s most visible figures and on-the-ground activists across the country... The California property was purchased for nearly $6 million in cash in October 2020 with money that had been donated to BLMGNF.... in October 2020, the organization received an infusion of $66.5 million from its fiscal sponsor — an intermediary commonly used by fledgling nonprofits to process donations. ...

EXPOSED ASSETS ARE EASY TARGETS FOR CRIMINALS IN LAW, TYRANTS, AND OTHER LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS USING LAW FOR AVARICE TO STEAL FROM THE INNOCENT. WHICH IS WHY THE INNOCENT HIDE ASSETS IN TRUSTS, AND ANONYMOUS ENTITIES BY ENTERING INTO A LEGAL CONTRACT.

THE LEGAL CRIMINALS USING LAW AS AVARICE NOW WANT TO BREACH THE CONTRACTS BY USURPING LAW THAT SAYS THEY CAN STEAL THE ASSETS BY WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS. THEY WILL FALSLEY ACCUSE THE INNOCENT OF VIOLATING SOME LAW AND MAKE THE INNOCENT PLEAD GUILTY TO THE FALSE CHARGES. NOW ALL TRUSTS AND ENTITIES ARE TERRORISTS, MONEY LAUNDERERS, DRUG TRAFFICKERS, AND OTHER CRIMINALS. THEY ARE ALSO RUSSIANS HIDING IN THE UNITED SLAVES. AND WITHOUT A BILL OF PRIVILEGES TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT THE LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS IN LAW WILL GET AWAY WITH THEIR ACTUAL CRIMES...

Lawmakers push to uncover riches shielded by state secrecy laws

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/21/nation/lawmakers-push-uncover-riches-shielded-by-state-secrecy-laws

The proposal in Alaska is part of a growing push to stop the flow of undisclosed money into the United States, which has for years drawn international wealth through state laws that provide anonymity for the owners of trusts, limited liability companies, and other financial arrangements. New York and Wyoming are also weighing reforms and, at the federal level, the bipartisan Enablers Act would for the first time require trust companies, registered agents, and others to scrutinize clients and report suspicious transactions.

State and federal lawmakers say the changes are long overdue. They cite new efforts to trace and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs as well as findings from the Pandora Papers, a global media investigation published in October by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, and more than 150 other media outlets. The stories exposed how oligarchs, political elites, and others hide wealth in the United States and around the world.

The investigation identified 206 US-based trusts holding combined assets worth more than $1 billion. Nearly 30, many of which were in South Dakota, held assets linked to people or companies accused of fraud, bribery, or human rights abuses. ...

USA TWO TIER LEGAL SYSTEM MAKES IT EASY TO WRONGFULLY CONVICT SLAVES BUT, DIFFICULT TO CONVICT MASTAS...

The truth about Hunter Biden's latest legal debacle is anything but simple

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/was-hunter-biden-arrested-not-yet-here-s-why-n1299413

Federal agents believe they have gathered sufficient with crimes, according to a Washington Post report. The purported offenses involve tax violations and lying about drug use on a form to buy a gun.... The truth is not so simple. Just because investigating agents have found evidence they believe is sufficient to file charges does not mean that prosecutors will or should seek an indictment....

Too Many Laws

https://sites.google.com/site/korruptlaw/toomanylaws