More counties want to build jails...

From a talk w/relatives last night.

I can only think of one reason; with joblessness rising and the thought of more people committing crimes, they will be put off the streets and into jail.

Wouldn't it be cheaper FOR THE TAXPAYERS if our corporate industry stopped offshoring; put out jobs back?

Besides, the prison industrial complex is probably the next biggest profit-at-our-expense business after the weapons industry. They don't give a shit about the taxpayers, they aren't one of them.

Why, debtors will be able to work off those otherwise uncollectable debts! Everybody benefits...

to pay off the national debt Wal Mart gave us to China?

Forced labor camps for the unemployed
to pay off student loans, medical bills and credit cards.
Why else would they close the bankruptcy loopholes?
Who's gonna pay for Bush's nationwide mental health plan? And those recommends for kids to take expensive mind stunting drugs?? Moonie shit fundie counseling scams and straightedge?
Who's gonna pay for the neocon DLC fantasy of fascist americana? Certainly not the parasitic corporates.. We are!With our unpaid labor ..
Certain criminal/corporate church cabals/families have always wanted America to be made into a two tiered feudalistic like slave state,with everyone on the second tier working for the company/state/church.. obscenely wealthy parasites on top.

Far better for fascist pigs in the Neocon Empire and DLC to control us left leaning plebeians by putting us in jail in secret and making us work and get"reeducated" into"globalist citizens" rather than having us free making messes of their order,making noise that counters their ads and propaganda and exposing the ugly schemes of the wealthy pigs to fuck over the too trusting citizens. An empire cannot stand to have a free thinking diverse community in it's midst.

Prisons for debtors won't just increase the U.S. inmate population of 2.1 million mostly nonwhite folks held in jails and prisons about a year ago. Incarcerating bankrupt working people, half of whom have gone bust from being unable to pay for corporate health care according to a recent academic study, will lower the jobless rate. What could be better than that, I ask you? Here's the thing: these debtors will be uncounted in the Labor Department jobs reports, thus invisible as prisoners/surplus workers are in official-speak. Wall Street will cheer as more of the unemployed are pencil-whipped from sight on government spreadsheets.


http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky05032005.html

US trade union officials have repeatedly denounced China for its use of prison labor, as part of the AFL-CIO's campaign against the normalization of trade relations with China. At the same time, however, the union officials have virtually been silent about the huge growth of prison labor in the United States.

There are presently 80,000 inmates in the US employed in commercial activity, some earning as little as 21 cents an hour. The US government program Federal Prison Industries (FPI) currently employs 21,000 inmates, an increase of 14 percent in the last two years alone. FPI inmates make a wide variety of products—such as clothing, file cabinets, electronic equipment and military helmets—which are sold to federal agencies and private companies. FPI sales are $600 million annually and rising, with over $37 million in profits.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/may2000/pris-m08.shtml

Coming economic crisis.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200507/fallows

More links
http://americandebtorsprison.blogspot.com/2005/11/miracle-in-kalamazoo.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/6/16951/22623
http://www.democrats.com/node/4189
http://abcforhealth.com/publications/newsletters/cksnupdate/20050115.asp
http://mediafilter.org/MFF/Prison.html

http://eatthestate.org/09-15/NaturePolitics.htm