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It appears that our new Governor wants to get off on the "right" foot. The budget does need balanced. I have mixed feelings. Alot of people in this county wanted good government jobs with all the bene's that go along with it.
I say take the same exact amount of pay-rates the prison workers would have made and invest IN MANUFACTURING.
I would like to see a facility built with the EXACT SAME PAYROLL and we actually build something. Make something. REAL GDP GROWTH. take dirt and one end and put something MADE IN THE USA that we will buy.
Dreams are the things the future is made of anyway.
And prisons are mostly (over 70%) populated in drug and drug related crimes. Decriminalize drugs , treat them as a medical condition, and those that want to do them give them a license to do so and take their driver's license and whatever else necessary and let them do "their thing" so long as it does not hurt or jeopardize the rest of us.
no mexican cartels, no corrupt cops, political officials, no cia drug profits etc etc etc.
Drugs are big business. For Government mostly. Yeah an occasional non "approved" dealer gets hard time and a few fools try to get rich quick, and those with the "addiction gene" will have a miserable life but that is no different than alcohol except that alcohol is legal. and the GOVERNMENT get their CUT of that too!
Folks my take is this anyone that can remember a steel workers pay and benefits in the 1970's is the last generation that can remember what the American dream could be and one with a good life and pays. When that can no longer be remembered the "slaves" will fully accept their servitude for minimum wage change and the socialist/ fascist NWO will "win". It may take another 20 years who knows. But to see the few people now in their 20's and very early 30's who have no idea of how good it used to be think what they are being deceived with today is the greatest life ever...then againthe young ones at CPAC voted RON PAUL and even FOX news had to try and deceived the flouride head sheeple with dirty tricks.
HISTORY YOUNG PEOPLE GOTO THE LIBRARY, GOTO SOMEONE 45 AND OLDER GOTO ANYONE WHO REMEMBERS.
Stand up for this country and say NO to a one world government. Get educated about how this country came into being. Study how Germany was 10 years prior to the start of WW2. Study the fall of ROME.
If nothing else when you goto Wal Mart and the TELEscreens start telling you what to do know that good things are not going to happen and very soon.
Hey I got off topic but I am listening to something now and do you want to see something crazy? Google Ray McGovern, Hilary Clinton speech, and see what security did to this silent protestor while she was extolling the "virtues" of the Egyptian protestors.
URLs rewritten, remove parenthesis (http:)//www.counterpunch.com/zeese02172011.htmlIf you don't see that hypocrisy, there is no way your eyes will ever be open to what is happening and how bad things are going to get if enough people don't wake up and change the direction of our own NWO oriented leadership.
PS The internet shut down switch switch next. Good Luck and may the LORD be with you all always