On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:40:12AM -0500, Marty Ferguson wrote: > > Here is the formula: > o Maintain a rightous war on drugs > o Bust a bunch of 21st century hippie potheads (Tommy Chong, for selling > bongs) > o Throw their a$$es in prisons which are operated by for-profit corporations > (WhackANut) > o Have them housed, fed and clothed at the taxpayer expense > o Pay them less than minimum wage for running printing presses, help desks, > etc. > o Compel federal purchase contracts to buy from these operations > o Force legitimate commercial operations out of business
Interesting when you look at the cummulative effect. I thought you were going to point out the use of prison labor in other countries. You expect that sort of thing in the 1700s, not the 21st century. This is a more sophisticated version. For-profit prisons would give rise to a lobby that advocates more frequent and longer sentences for lesser offenses. Elected judges - often lacking for campaign funds - might find a ready source of money from such a lobby. I can't wait for BofA to hire inmates to run their help-desk :-). -- Mike Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
