Elizabeth Warren Has A Novel Idea: Put Executives Who Committed Crimes in Prison

[pangaia]

I am posting this not as being for or against Elizabeth Warren-- just as an interesting article.. I hope it is in the right place..


Elizabeth Warren Has A Novel Idea: Put Executives Who Committed Crimes in Prison
By Jacob Weindling | April 3, 2019 | 3:05pm
Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty

It is an unimpeachable fact that wealthy and powerful people have a different legal system in America. We jail more people than Stalin did at the height of his barbarity, and none of them are the people responsible for the Great Recession that wiped out at least 40% of middle class wealth in America. Crime is simply legal in America so long as your net worth is above a certain dollar amount. We put black children in prison for marijuana offenses and let Lloyd Blankfein continue to breathe fresh air. This is a choice—it’s who we are. America was built on the dual foundations of genocide and slavery, and our modern malaise is directly connected to the infrastructure created to protect those two utterly American institutions.

Economics alone will not get us out of this rut. We need to fundamentally change the nature of our legal framework to even begin to make good on the promise of what this country falsely purports to be. Elizabeth Warren gets that notion as well as any 2020 candidate, and today she released yet another policy that everyone in the Democratic Party will ultimately come to support. Per Warren in a Washington Post op-ed:


"Elizabeth Warren has the most developed policy platform in the Democratic primary at this early stage in the 2020 primary, and in a media environment where outcomes mattered more than optics, she would be the one getting tons of free media coverage thanks to continually introducing detailed legislation with simple messages like “hey how about immensely wealthy people can also go to prison for breaking the law.”

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/04/elizabeth-warren-has-a-novel-idea-put-executives-w.html

[Kurt V.]

1. i love your disclaimer. lol. She's in my top 3

[pangaia]

2. I like her also, and a bunch of others as well..

[Kurt V.]

3. so many great choices.

[Perrenial Voter]

4. She is certainly coming out with the most detailed, well-thought-out policies of any of the

candidates. I hope some of them are adopted. Unfortunately and for reasons I don't understand, a lot of people seem to dislike her (about 20%).

[pangaia]

5. Perhaps does she appear to some be 'too much of a policy wonk?'

I don't think so.

But, elections I would say are won less on intellect than emotion...

[FiveGoodMen]

6. You're too much of a policy wonk if you keep referring people to papers

You can (and should) have the detailed analysis and plans, and it's fine to let people follow up with those, but...

If you can't explain the gist of your argument to a crowd and do so without visual aids, then no one's going to pay attention.

(And in that case, you're too much of a policy wonk)

[Perrenial Voter]

7. Bill Clinton was policy wonk and people liked him. Hillary Clinton was too, and people didn't

like her nearly as much. I think I am seeing a pattern here.

[iluvtennis]

8. I agree with Senator Warren. Do it.

[dalton99a]

9. And hit their personal bank accounts

[Mr.Bill]

10. Better yet, force them to

take a minimum wage job and live on that income.

[Sherman A1]

11. While paying back

the money they stole or misappropriated.

I wouldn't put them in prison. I would go after every dime they have as it would be a much bigger punishment to them.

[Lazy Daisy]

12. I like the way you think

They would go to a prison that doesn't look anything like what most prisons are. They'd still live a better life than a good percentage of the country. Let them figure out how to exist (note I didn't say live) on minimum wage. And absolutely NO government assistance.

[Autumn]

13. I can get behind that. Liz is an amazing politician. I'm so glad she's running.

[bluescribbler]

14. Yeah

“hey how about immensely wealthy people can also go to prison for breaking the law.”

I'm with Liz on this one.

[Andy823]

15. I totally agree

And we should add the same goes for any "President" that breaks the law.