Someone should do a scatter plot of military budget/GDP against incarceration/adult population for various countries for 1960, 1980, 2000. It wouldn't prove anything, but it would be interesting to look at. We know where the U.S. would be. Where would the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Australia be? Where would Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico be? South Africa? Russia and China?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings Economists, > > On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > > > Why does maintaining the legions throughout > > the Empire require locking up so many people at home? > > Doyle; > I think the Vietnam war crystalized the right to their base of > strength about war or military spending. Hence the reasoning of > prison went toward a war like attitude because it comes out of global > powers that have no cultural responsibilities. Effectively, prisons > enhance an attitude that promises by war to secure threats to wealth, > and happiness. The cohesion of African Americans was a threat so they > became the target of repression that was a 'war on drugs'. The U.S. > power pillars of a big war machine, dollar finance dominance, unite > under a cultural threat that large groups make. And therefore prisons > that hold a significant fraction of African American men demonstrate > the efficacy of war to national interest abroad. > Thanks, > Doyle Saylor > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
