How Imprisonment Impacts Economic Inequality | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Author and CEO of Robin Hood, Wes Moore, discusses AG Barr's remarks on non-existent nationwide lockdowns as well as how imprisonment impacts the earning potential of those who have been incarcerated. Aired on 09/17/2020.
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    1. Reckon there will be a scientific commission done on this? I doubt it because Trump doesn’t believe in science as he tweets on his devices created by science. Do you see the irony?

    2. YES AND HE DOESN’T HAVE ANYONE’S IN HIS ADMINISTRATION OR HIS FOLLOWERS ,THAT THERE IS SMARTER THAN HIM SELF AND THAT APPLYS TOO MR.MCCONNELL LEADERSHIP OF THE REPUBLICANS SENATORS, MR BARR ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE PEOPLE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND HE’S GREATHER THAN ANYONE MAN.STANDING ON THE HEAD’S OF GOD CHILDREN LIVES. IT’S CALLED DICTATORSHIP TOO DIVIDE AND CONQUER WITH FEARS. BUT GOD THOUGH THE WORDS OF THY LIPS SAYS IT ALL FEAR NOT. FOR I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS. AND ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE IN CHRIST JESUS BY FAITH EQUALLY STAND TOGETHER WE ARE ONE IN CHRIST WITH STRENGTH AND UNDIVIDED POWER FOR LOVE CONQUERS ALL. WE’RE ONE NATION UNDER GOD. AMEN.MARGERE BEST GRANNY LEE AMEN

    1. The woman’s movement seem to see a growing fetus as a piece of trash to be thrown away: is that sick and unmotherly?

    2. @tin pan alley 1619 Broadway you misunderstand lmao. Im a father of two and one on the way. Those are just my hobbies. Im still a husband and hard worker. And gaming is better than any book, or movie if you ask me. Just try playing Divinity 2 and see if you’re not addicted. I guarantee you will be. Saying welcome to the real world is cringe. Because if America now is the what the real world looks like, then what a nasty hateful world we live in.

    3. @Akitsu Maru when I hear gaming I think of kids . I’m out of touch probably. I forgot what I said but sorry if I insulted you. . Its probably a good stress releaser. Better than beating the kids up . I’m kidding of course

    1. Josef……. and how stupid is Trump he was told by people not to let Woodward tape….and he did anyway…..because he just had to have a book about himself published by Woodward…..so we have 1000s of dead people over his ego…..makes me ill to think about it…

    2. @Josef
      The election is rigged…….unless I win
      The news is fake….unless it’s flattering
      Everything is a hoax……unless I tweet it
      Nepotism is bad……..unless it’s my family
      I’m rich….but you can’t see my taxes
      I’m smart…but you can’t see my grades
      My staff is the best….until I fire them
      I’m innocent….but I stop ALL STAFF from testifying and make them sign NDA’s

    3. @Josef yep…and more victims of police brutality seeking retribution…because dirty cops investigating other dirty cops is a no brainer!!! They do a fake investigation and continue to murder American citizens under the color of corrupt police unions and Fraternal order of police gangs!!!

    1. @Bob Loblaw i do like you screen name. I with you the best.
      The things i say to you come from a place of compassion not hate.
      I don’t blame you. i blame the propagandists. They are good at what they do.
      They once had a grip on me too.
      I fully believed that cooperate media was full of all these wonderful people that just want to inform me. I woke up about 15 years ago because of strong words from someone.
      Hope our interaction can make you think about the true intentions of your media.
      Why Do you think a billionaire buys a media outlet.
      A) because they think it will be a great return on investment
      B)they are doing it as kind of a charity service because the believe it is important to inform the public.
      C) they want to control narrative and sell influence.

    2. @Bob Loblaw do you realize you have yet to counter any of the points i have made.
      This should be the first indicator that you are not standing on firm ground.
      You are living a world of false narratives fed to you by your media masters. This is you are incapable of countering anything i have posted.
      Just out of context quotes and blind assertions with nothing to back it up.
      That’s all you have because that’s all you media gives you.
      Your lack of cognitive reasoning is the reason why you think out of context quotes actually mean something.
      I challenge you to disprove something i have posted.
      I bet you can’t.
      Good luck

  1. His plans are to make America weak and fight among each other. Because if you tell people to stay home and wear mask the rich will start loosing money. Trump works for the Rich and not for America.

    1. @Connie Hahn Germany is a beautiful place I was stationed there for 12yrs. My wife is German and I have beautiful daughter that is half German and half puerto rican.

    1. He’s gonna shout out to Barney Trump or Wilma then. Did anyone notice how much Barney Rubble’s hairstyle resembles Trump’s?😂🤣

  2. The Republicans are not interested in America.. They are backing a mad man.. He is killing he’s supporters. The worst president ever…

    1. The Russian led republicon party would rather be in bogus committees trying to dig up dirt on their opposition than doing anything about unemployment, americans going hungry or the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent americans due to covid. Flush the toxic turds on Nov. 3rd.

  3. the Trump train is rolling out of the White House and into the big house and there’s two rooms reserved for Bill bar and Mike pompel

    1. The Big House needs to b Bigger & have more than 2 Rooms. U can Add Mark Meadows, Mitch McConnel, Lindsay Graham, Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, Ted Cruz To That List of Train Riders. LOL

    1. It’s worse than dog whistling in a tornado with Barr. He should go to a dog pound where he would have pals who look like him.

    2. @Dave Schultz Boogaloo Bois are #1 domestic Terrorist threat yet Fred Flintstone never mentions them bruh. Oh, and Dan Maloney would like to return your teeth. And FF IS the deep state.

    1. Luis…is it just me or is Bill Barr starting to look a lot like Yoda…he’s gonna start eating kid’s as appetizers…as the great Trump buffet of souls continues to be devoured and then displayed as losers ,his cult followers will chant our Grand Wizard has spoken!!!

    2. the term “common sense” is often misused by religious or political fanatics to skip the proper scientific proof. Geo-centrists for example used it vs Heliocentrist in the pre kopernikanian era. I wouldnt be too eager using this term

  4. It’s crazy how people give trump so much leeway. I still remember the scrutiny for Obama within his first 100 days to fix the economic crisis Bush left. Wake up folks.

    1. @Todd Morningstar Maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s your very mature level that’s why you don’t pay undocumented immigrants a livable wage and forces people to work at factors ran by Leftists for years without giving raises.

    1. Barr has BLM, ANTIFA and the Deep State all figured out, he knows it’s much worse than everyone knows. All will be exposed soon…😵💫

    2. @Dee Vee Lets not call him a man. Most males would be annoyed being classed as the same as barr. He is a conniving pos.

  5. If there is no national lockdown, then Bill Barr is saying that his imaginary lockdown order, can be compared to slavery? What’s wrong with him? Maybe too white?

    1. If I would make a guess, I’d say that Barr knows perfectly well that this comparison is BS. Barr is quite intelligent.
      Which is worrying because he has sinister intentions. Barr’s worse than Trump because Trump isn’t exactly Einstein material.
      What Barr does is sending signals to their base, appealing to their voters.
      Jesus, I so hope that enough people vote blue to counter the voter suppression measures applied by this administration and send this entire corrupt lot packing. I’d love to see them behind bars, too, but I’m afraid this is wishful thinking (even though I’m certain they deserved it).

    1. Well, _kinda._ Businesses and and workers are not usually _ordered_ to shut down _under penalty of law_ during extreme and dangerous weather. But for the most part, people merely being physically close to eachother, is not commonly _the_ direct vessel of lethal threat in such situations, especially not without requiring some kind of active and concious decision amd action(s) to realize that threat. Nor is the threat in such situations highly contagious. Nor domthey last for weeks, months, potentially years at varying intensities.

      So I recognize and get your point. But I’m not sure this analogy is appropriate.

      While mandates, intrusions into and even temporary limitations of civil liberties are always hazardous, and should never even be _considered_ lightly – I do think there are legitimate scenarios where such things may be reasonable and warranted. An epidemic where people are unknowingly spreading highly contagious death and very severe illness just by being near eachother, and we have no effective treatment, might be one of them. Especially in periodes where the spread and resuoting illness reaches levels beyond what our medical infrastructure can cope with.

      We wouldn’t really need the lockdowns, shutting of businesses, shutting of entertainment, culture, treatment, recreational gatherings, facilities and activities – if everyone could just get on board with wearing masks (and maintaining strict contact hygiene). If everyone did that today, contagion levels would plummit, and we could start going back to _some_ very substantial resemblance of normalcy within a month.

    2. @pr0xZen Same reason Republicans hoard guns, love NASCAR polluting cars and big diesel trucks, tear up the landscape with off-rode vehicles, “Drill-baby-Drill…..and think climate change is a hoax.

    1. The “billionaire” who hides his tax returns.
      The “genius” who hides his college grades.
      The “self-made man” who tax dodged a $413M “gift” from daddy’s real estate empire.
      The “businessman” who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 yrs.
      The “playboy” who pays for $ех.
      The “Christian”, twice-divorced philanderer, who never asks God for forgiveness.
      The “man of the Bible” who declined to name even one of his favorite Bible verses.
      The “gentleman and champion for all women” who ordered his golf club managers to fire every woman who was not young enough and attractive enough.
      The “philanthropist” who defrauds charity.
      The “patriot” who dodged the draft; family tradition: grandfather was kicked out of Bavaria for draft-dodging, father bribed a doctor tenant to exempt Donald from military service.
      The “paragon of honesty” whose new immigration rules would have kept his and his senior anti-immigration adviser Stephen Miller’s grandparents out.
      The “steadfast defender of our nation’s borders” who married an alleged undocumented immigrant and illegal worker who sponsored her parents into the country by “chain migration”.
      The “staunch Republican” who donated to Democrats at all gov’t levels: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Anthony Weiner, Harry Reid, Andrew Cuomo, Terry McAuliffe, Eliot Spitzer.
      The “innocent man” who refuses to testify.
      The “President” who takes no responsibility.
      The “tough, strong man“ who wears makeup and hairspray but never a mask.
      The “deal maker” who has yet to close a deal.

      If America reelects this guy, it deserves the dystopian future that follows.

    2. He has already imposed price controls on pharmaceuticals two times AND passed the right-to-try act. Next up is an insurance plan including pre-existing conditions.

    3. When things were at their very worst:
      2 Suns, Cross in the sky, 2 comets will collide = don`t be afraid – repent, accept Lord`s Hand of Mercy.
      Scientists will say it was a global illusion.
      Beaware – Jesus will never walk in flesh again.
      After WW3 – rise of the “ man of peace“ from the east = Antichrist – the most powerful, popular, charismatic and influential leader of all time. Many miracles will be attributed to him. He will imitate Jesus in every conceivable way.
      Don`t trust „pope“ Francis = the False Prophet
      – will seem to rise from the dead
      – will unite all Christian Churches and all Religions as one.
      One World Religion = the seat of the Antichrist.
      Benedict XVI is the last true pope – will be accused of a crime of which he is totally innocent.
      The Book of Truth
      https://mdmlastprophet.com/when-the-freedom-to-speak-is-taken-away-the-truth-is-hidden/

    4. @Jeff Gibson True! And also working to lower health care coverage. From day one he has spoken about covering people with pre-existing conditions.

    5. @Jeff Gibson not working because my medicine prices are going up. Good Rx is much better. He doesn’t have the influence to bring down the prices. He’s been saying since July in 2 weeks. How long is 2 weeks?

    1. Jabba the Hutt – ugh I agree. I often fast forward past Barr or tRump’s clips and just listen to the journalists’ interpretations

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