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Some People Call This "The Invisible Hand of the Market"
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Some People Call This "The Invisible Hand of the Market"
I call it "corruption."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/stor...56689394/1

Quote:MIAMI (AP) – The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever, generating lucrative profits for the nation's largest prison companies, and an Associated Press review shows the businesses have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying lawmakers and contributing to campaigns.

Quote:The industry's giants —Corrections Corporation of America, The GEO Group, and Management and Training Corp. — have spent at least $45 million combined on campaign donations and lobbyists at the state and federal level in the last decade

And, in retort they claim....

Quote:CCA and GEO, who manage most private detention centers, insist they aren't trying to influence immigration policy to make more money, and their lobbying and campaign donations have been legal.

Yeah... and if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
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#2
RE: Some People Call This "The Invisible Hand of the Market"
Idiots call it the invisible hand of the market. It's a mixture of corruption (both in the government and the business) and corporatism.
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#3
RE: Some People Call This "The Invisible Hand of the Market"
Corruption and corporatism is the hand of our market. I don't know about the invisible bit though, they seemed to have realized that just about anything can be accomplished in the open anymore.
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RE: Some People Call This "The Invisible Hand of the Market"
Healthcare & criminal rehabilitation are two things that should never be privatized.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
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RE: Some People Call This "The Invisible Hand of the Market"
You seem to think there is a difference, Divi Tiberio.


(There isn't.)
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RE: Some People Call This "The Invisible Hand of the Market"
It seems there is nothing that Americans won't try to make a buck on. Despite all the talk about Jesus we have here, it seems that we actually worship the almighty dollar.
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