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    Why do people think America needs making great again?

    Because it elected trumpf? (Fair play, I know it didn't really!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    MAGA is code for putting white people back in charge, after the Black Pan-African Nationalist Kenyan-Marxist dystopian hellscape Barack and Michelle Obama put us through.
    no its not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    Of course, you know the incarceration rate and expense is a product of making for-profit prisons. Keeping jails full makes for-profit prisons a lot of money. How many billions do we waste on jailing, judging and imprisoning people for things like weed?
    For-profit prison hold about 6% of the country's prisoners; so, most of the billions being spent go to government prisons. They don't call them profits but the people that run those prisons still benefit from the funding. The warden of a government prison or private prison both know they can increase their salary and status by increasing the size and budget of their institution. The whole claim about for-profit prisons greatly exaggerate their share of the "market."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    MAGA is code for putting white people back in charge, after the Black Pan-African Nationalist Kenyan-Marxist dystopian hellscape Barack and Michelle Obama put us through.
    Does that mean white people were not in charge for a while? That kind of destroys the racist, white privilege claims.

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    MAGA was a successful marketing ploy. Stop reading so much into it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    22 trillion dollars of national debt ...
    But never fear The Donald is working on it and has half of it fixed already, much to the chagrin of lefty America haters.
    When Mr. Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2017, the national debt was $19.9 trillion, according to U.S. Treasury data. Since then, the GOP-led Congress has passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut bill and a two-year spending deal which, together, are expected to drive the deficit and debt further upward. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates annual deficits could top $2.1 trillion per year in the next decade.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-d...rst-time-ever/

    So that's how he's going to make America great again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    Obama made a career of informing the world the US was unexceptional.
    And Trump proved it. look at his cabinet. Listen to Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    For-profit prison hold about 6% of the country's prisoners; so, most of the billions being spent go to government prisons. They don't call them profits but the people that run those prisons still benefit from the funding. The warden of a government prison or private prison both know they can increase their salary and status by increasing the size and budget of their institution. The whole claim about for-profit prisons greatly exaggerate their share of the "market."
    8.5 percent and went up 47 percent since 2000.https://www.sentencingproject.org/pu...united-states/ Lots of states have no private prisons. Those that allow it has far more that 6 or 9.percent.
    Obama was phasing them out. Sessions reversed that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Bill Clinton wanted to "make America great again."

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?c46007...ca-great-again
    Deflection,the Trumpsters only weapon
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Generic419 View Post
    Deflection,the Trumpsters only weapon
    This post make no sense. The question was who wants to make America great again? I answered Bill Clinton because he was obviously one of the people who did so. Plus, I am not a trumpster. So, there was no deflection from any Trumpster. You make wild unfounded assumptions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    This post make no sense. The question was who wants to make America great again? I answered Bill Clinton because he was obviously one of the people who did so. Plus, I am not a trumpster. So, there was no deflection from any Trumpster. You make wild unfounded assumptions.
    Clinton hasn't been in office in almost 20 years,
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    8.5 percent and went up 47 percent since 2000.https://www.sentencingproject.org/pu...united-states/ Lots of states have no private prisons. Those that allow it has far more that 6 or 9.percent.
    Obama was phasing them out. Sessions reversed that.
    The latest data I found came from the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2016. Due to some prison reforms the total prison population has declined since 2010 from 1,613,803 to 1,506,757 in 2016 (87% of those are in state prisons).

    9% of federal and state prisoners were in privately operated facilities in 2016 down 800 prisoners (2%) from 2015. This includes nonsecure community corrections centers and home confinement.

    https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p16.pdf

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    Quote Originally Posted by Generic419 View Post
    Clinton hasn't been in office in almost 20 years,
    Yes, and that makes my point. Politicians have been using the same trite, meaningless slogans for many years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    He wanted to make it great in 1991. You don't think he still wants to make it great?

    My only point was that politicians have been using the same trite, meaningless slogans for many years.
    America is played out,will never be great again
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Generic419 View Post
    America is played out,will never be great again
    Does that mean it used to be great? If so, when did it stop?

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