Emma Berry

I am so fed-up with the half-measures undertaken by the Obama Administration that I could scream.  The legislation that they pass is so watered down that it will not effect the sweeping reform that is required.

For example, we are supposed to cheer because Congress passed a health care bill that does NOTHING to provide  real competition for Wall Street health care insurance crooks giving Americans the choice of a public option and instead mandates 50 million Americans to purchase health care insurance from the very Wall Street crooks who are currently robbing us blind?  Sorry but don’t expect any thanks from this corner.

Now I read in this morning’s Huffington Post that we now are supposed to cheer because of the half-assed  attempt of Congress in addressing a historic wrong on Wednesday afternoon, replacing it instead with a slightly lesser wrong, when the House voted to reduce the disparity in the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine versus powder cocaine.

To be charged with a felony, crack users needed to possess only 5 grams of the drug. To be hit with the same charge, powder cocaine users needed to be caught with 500 grams. This 100-to-1 disparity has frequently been cited by drug war opponents as exhibit A to buttress their claim that drug laws are racist.

Pending President Obama’s signature, the new law will reduce that disparity to 18-to-1. The threshold for crack cocaine in the new law will be 28 grams; the powder level remains the same.

WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CHEER BECAUSE WHAT AMOUNTS TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS NOW ONLY 18 TO 1 IN FAVOR OF WHITE PEOPLE?

Pardon me, but I see little difference between these crumbs that the corporate centrists are offering us the and entire cake that Republicans take.

Excuse me if I don’t fall all over myself in gratitude.

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