RE: Private Prison Complex receives terrible news.
August 24, 2016 at 10:21 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2016 at 10:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'd prefer to see people change their actions, rather than their minds. They can think all the silly shit they like, it's unimportant to me. It's what they do...and despite all the promises (campaign or otherwise) thrown this way and that regarding this issue - everyone is demonstrably onboard. The industry rep wasn't blowing smoke up anyone's ass to get them to invest, on that count.
Hell, the justice department...even as they made the announcement linked in the OP...were renewing contracts for their preferred service providers, which were conveniently tied to impressive campaign contributions in the very party that -claims- they will shut them down. The same party that's been criticizing the practice for decades...even as they cash the checks, and authorize more and more facilities. Even as they effectively work as little more than couriers , carting industry crafted laws to the floor of state and federal government, on bills they sponsor.
Obviously, said contributors are confident that this promise actually means that they will shut down "the other guys"...you know, the ones that provide sub-par services and such. From where I stand, their confidence is well founded and overwhelmingly in evidence. I'll give the dems this, though...at least they have the decency to bullshit us about it,....which is a courtesy that we won't get from the republicans. They're pretty open about having a massive amount of human chattel for sale, downright giddy...looking to secure even more of it. Why not....it's been positively -fantastic- business.
Hell, the justice department...even as they made the announcement linked in the OP...were renewing contracts for their preferred service providers, which were conveniently tied to impressive campaign contributions in the very party that -claims- they will shut them down. The same party that's been criticizing the practice for decades...even as they cash the checks, and authorize more and more facilities. Even as they effectively work as little more than couriers , carting industry crafted laws to the floor of state and federal government, on bills they sponsor.
Obviously, said contributors are confident that this promise actually means that they will shut down "the other guys"...you know, the ones that provide sub-par services and such. From where I stand, their confidence is well founded and overwhelmingly in evidence. I'll give the dems this, though...at least they have the decency to bullshit us about it,....which is a courtesy that we won't get from the republicans. They're pretty open about having a massive amount of human chattel for sale, downright giddy...looking to secure even more of it. Why not....it's been positively -fantastic- business.
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