manifest. and it was called soap operas because soap companies sponsored the shows. so that s how the soap opera title came about. yeah. durham, he also wrote for the chicago defender. that s an interesting story, particularly his firing and how they had i don t know if they were the first also, when you talked about the black insurance company that couldn t get it couldn t get funding to there was a show that he did, and the script basically was about this insurance company in, i believe it was in philadelphia. i m not sure. but the bottom line was, when this gentleman went to get money to refinance the building this was during the depression they assessed the building that this insurance company was in. and this was one of the major insurance companies for african-americans at the time. and he thought he could get maybe a $50,000 loan to tide him over through the depression. and they assessed the building for like 5,000. $5,000. and it was like okay, n
section five was a pretty effective check on minority vote dilution in these places. it did impose some burdens on state and roque government. i wouldn t local government. i wouldn t deny that. but they were modest burdens, certainly in comparison to the burden of actually martialing the expert evidence necessary to bring or to defend against a voting rights lawsuit. so i do think that something important was lost by the elimination, effectively, of preclearance spending, and i may disagree on that point. but i do think we agree that that s, for better or for worse, the main work that the section five preclearance requirement was doing before shelby county. and i think what s interesting is the burden of proof almost always is on the plaintiff in an election case. so i think in most of the countries that we work around the world, the person filing the complaint has to prove the claim by the standard of evidence. and as we ve all known, how does that plaintiff get access t
rehabilitation services, into victim services. so if this proposition passes the people, the voter, will ship to many resources and lower the amount of time that people can spend in prison for substance abuse, for petty theft, receiving stolen properties. there s six low-level offenses that will change. and it will also make people who have went to prison for those crimes eligible for an expungement. and i m really excited about it because after being released from prison 20 years, after rehabilitating myself and hundreds and hundreds of others, jeanne, i ll be eligible to get an expungement or i ll be eligible to clean up my record. i will be eligible to not be punished anymore for medicating my grief with an illegal substance. and incarcerated when i lost my son. and that s not just me. those are hundreds of thousands of more californians. so i m really, you know, like gung ho. don ho for prop 47. prophet, i think you mentioned a little bit the political ship is going on
so personal savings can only go so far for these individuals. at the same time though social security treat single women far less well than it does married women so they are not getting much help from that end of things either. that s one reason i and others have proposed reforming social security to provide a flat universal benefit for all retirees regardless of income participation. on top of that individual would save in accounts provided through their employer or of not available through the government. this approach is qualitatively similar to that of the u.k. australia canada and new zealand. in the u.s. context you can affordably reduce the elderly poverty rate from today s level of roughly 9% to approximately 0% while increasing the retirement savings among the middle and high high-income workers who truly should be saving more. the lesson in all this is that there is no simple problem and no simple solution but a small if more complex problem is better in the retirem
successful fighting in iraq since isis came. the iraqi military with ghosts and all of that, they have not done anything to speak of. they achieved an army. the external volunteer fighters as they are called, they are the ones who achieved on the outskirts of baghdad, they held other places. all of that. are they the favorable way to go? no, for sure. you would rather see the state and military do its job. the military has not functioned, and iraq was left to those groups to defend it. it is hard to speak of them. yes, they have american blood on their hands from the old days. but so did the others being trained by the united states right now. who are the recruits from the sunni militia being formed by the united states, equipped, and funded? they are the ones that shot at the americans into lodz and elsewhere into lodz a in fallujah and elsewhere. the american approach, rather than doing something for the iraqi military, they are approaching it in a madisonian way. if yo