ed meese just on faux telling his plan to save american jobs

[impeach the gop]

I swear, I couldn't make this up. But he said to keep corporate greedy ceo's from taking all the american jobs
out of america and over to India or wherever, that American inmates could be outsourced for 2 bucks a hour, and that saves tax payer's money, and keeps jobs here at home. Said inmates could pay their debt to society. and when
they get out, they won't want to be evil crime doers anymore. Said it's been going on un-noticed for a while
Dell, and some others, I didn't get it all, was in shock. But then shock turned to yep that figures. Lock up the
masses, and salvery sets america free and by the way, that's why they hate us. they love our freedom :-)\

here's a link from google. I swear this is making my hair stand up back of my neck and top of my head. I'm afraid they might just be able to get away with anything. Nobody will stand up to this madness.

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2003/Prison-Labor-Edwin-Meese3sep03.htm

[arcane1]

1. anything to avoid paying a living wage...

the "cheap labor conservatives" never stray from their MO

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Meese? Ugh...

...who the fuck let him out?

[Skip Intro]

3. Good, slave labor (and what happens to the workers now doing those jobs?)

So we'd, in effect, have a huge population (of dispropotionately black people) working in prison camps while we sanction (or freedom-bomb) other nations for their supposedly atrocious human rights violations. A return to slavery, brought to you by the racist right. I'm gonna be sick.

From another perspective, wouldn't this take jobs away from those outside the prison gates, further assaulting the already reeling lower and middle class?

This is insanity. And the fact that its on faux makes me wonder if this isn't something the greedy pigs in the WH aren't already working on.

[arcane1]

4. following this to its logical conclusion....

the economic security of the US will DEPEND on a large prison population...


scary thought, no?

[grasswire]

6. it's already happening

In federal and state prisons. Inmates are paid a pittance and then must pay some of the costs of their incarceration out of the pittance. The gulag is selling their labor to private contractors. Sometimes the state itself sells the product. In many states, inmates are not paid at all for their labor.

[patdem]

5. So the question becomes...why send jobs to Chinese slave labor camps

when we have USA slave labor camps...well ain't that just ducky...

So now Americans that have to pay for food, clothing, housing must compete for jobs from people that the taxpayers who have to pay for food, clothing and housing are forced to support?

Is there some sort of disconnect here????

[grasswire]

8. disconnect?

It has been called the "prison-industrial complex" for a good ten or fifteen years already. Find a way to incarcerate millions of people. Make bajillions of dollars in prison construction, goods and services and debt service.

That money comes directly from funds that would have been spent on education, parks, after-school programs, libraries........

[ProudGerman]

9. Almost correct

Remember, the pubby's also want to force inmates to pay for room and board as well. So the inmates will be forced to work for 2 bucks and hour, and then give that money right back to the state to pay for their incarceration.


At least until they completely privatize the prison industry, then the inmates will be paid a slaves wage and then turn around and cough that money up to corporations to pay for their room and board. Corporations who are already drawing on the taxpayer's pocket books to pay for that room and board.

Just another way for the republicans to turn us all into slaves for the corporate oligarchy.

[hedda_foil]

7. This doesn't surprise me at all.

The prison industrial complex is big bidness for the friends of the Bush family. Just google "Wackenhut" and prepare for your neck hairs to stand up for the next few weeks. For real fun and games, google "Wackenhut Bush."

The only thing that surprises me is that a member of the BFEE is actually saying this in public.

[arcane1]

10. and of course Ashcroft is running around demanding that judges...

give the maximum sentence in EVERY case

too convenient

[PROGRESSIVE1]

11. Don't get mad at Mr. Meese, he is "well" intended.

See, here is his plan! It's just like the Bush Plan!!!


1) Eliminate all taxes on those making above $500,000 a year and
triple taxes on those making under $50,000 a year!

2) Impose a 50% small business tax(those pesky small businesses have been known to get in the way of big business monopoly)

3)Eliminate the minimum wage

4)Loosen workplace regulations

5)Let Ken Lay run free and Put Martha Stewart in jail!

Look how well it's already working!!!

:eyes:

"satire"