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To: i-node who wrote (861682)	6/2/2015 2:37:41 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578299

Before 2012 I would have given your opinion much more consideration but now not so much. The average voter doesn't really pay attention to that stuff. The average voter is going to vote for the person they believe will give them better pay, cheaper health insurance and better retirement benefits. And you can't blame them because many of them work 3 jobs a week and can't pay their rent. If you were in the same situation you'd vote the same way. I live off capital gains plus social security but MOSTLY capital gains when I can get them. MOST people don't even know what a capital gain IS...... It used to be different. A guy could get out of highschool and get a decent job and make enough to raise a family. I worked in a steel mill when I was in college. Guys can't do that anymore. In the primaries the Republicans will have to move farther and farther to the right and that will leave more and more voters in the country to DISLIKE them.

To: i-node who wrote (861682)	6/2/2015 11:33:41 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1578299

America’s Newest War As the war on drugs loses its luster, legislators are intent to make the same mistakes with sex workers. By ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN politico.com June 01, 2015 No one supports sex slavery. And the thought of child sex slavery turns the stomach. Last Friday, President Obama ostensibly addressed this issue by signing the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (JVTA), a massive package of grant appropriations, criminal penalty enhancements and other items aimed at fighting human trafficking in America and abroad. As well-meaning as this legislation may be, the “War on Sex Trafficking” that the federal government is waging will fail, just as the “War on Drugs” has failed. With almost unanimous, bipartisan support in Congress and fans ranging from evangelical Christians to Planned Parenthood, it's easy to see the JVTA as a rare win-win in Washington. But just as giving local police and prosecutors an urgent mandate to fight drugs led mostly to the prosecution of low-level drug users and dealers rather than big-time drug traffickers, the fight against sex trafficking—plus federal funding to do so, contingent on arrests and convictions—sets up perverse incentives to treat everyday prostitution as sex trafficking. All over the country, we're now seeing what would have been deemed "vice" work reframed as human trafficking stings. And who gets swept up in these stings? Willing, adult sex workers. Their would-be patrons. Petty pimps. For example, during last year's Operation Cross Country, an FBI spearheaded initiative "to recover victims of child sex trafficking," Newark, N.J. cops identified just one 14-year-old sex trafficking victim but it arrested another 45 people for normal prostitution or pimping. In Portland, one minor was recovered while 20 adult women were arrested on prostitution charges and three adults were arrested for promoting prostitution....