Reply #12: We already have the world's highest per capital prison population,

[Judi Lynn]

people have been trying for ages to undo the government's imprisonment of people for small offenses, struggling to decriminalize marijuana, etc., and we've instead been feeding a growing prison construction industry, as the right-wingers have been pressing forward to privatize prisons, making them profitable, and beyond that, to force religion upon the inmates, while taking taxpayers' money for their faith-based assistance.

So now we are in a position to turn the corner, and turn the inmates out into the fields to work for nothing, or for pennies, thereby setting in motion even more incentive to get even more people into jail, etc.

This couldn't be further from the goals and beliefs of the Democratic Party since the very beginning. I don't believe there are any real Democrats who favor this.

Outsourcing our jobs to other countries? Shutting down our manufacturing? Starting to go after white collar jobs in large numbers now, as well as the remaining blue collar jobs? Leaves a lot of desperate people without income. If they start drinking more, from depression, using more drugs for stress, fine. We're continually reducing the amount of alcohol in the blood stream to send people to jail if they are caught driving. Eventually our prisons will be the only thing growing here.

They'll be waiting for the new classes of prisoners with more varieties of slave labor. This is sick, depraved, and it's going to have to be reversed.

Right-wing idiots don't need to gloat about this now, at least at a Democratic message board. If you knew anything at all about history, you'd know Democrats don't think like that. Parasitic wingers may, but not Democrats.