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ParticipantWhen we came back by about 4 PM, the whole area was filled with tents and homeless! There were a few dozen that we had to weave through to return to the car! Not just men…men, women and a couple of kids. They spoke with us and were jovial, but it was indeed a sad sight.
Always be kind to them, they may be your neighbors someday. I had to make an Office Depot run yesterday and saw the group you encountered as well.
ParticipantWe already have a larger percentage of the population imprisoned than any other country on earth. Our incarceration rate has actually surpassed that of the “Evil Empire” USSR (look it up, it’s true). I believe this trend will continue upward, there is a lot of money to be made throwing people in the hoosegow. And it directly addresses the unemployment problem – you throw most of the unemployed in prison and hire the remainder to guard them. Since our prisons are increasingly owned by politically well-connected corporations, growth shall be the order of the day. This is nothing new, it has been going on for decades and will continue.
ParticipantWe already have a larger percentage of the population imprisoned than any other country on earth. Our incarceration rate has actually surpassed that of the “Evil Empire” USSR (look it up, it’s true). I believe this trend will continue upward, there is a lot of money to be made throwing people in the hoosegow. And it directly addresses the unemployment problem – you throw most of the unemployed in prison and hire the remainder to guard them. Since our prisons are increasingly owned by politically well-connected corporations, growth shall be the order of the day. This is nothing new, it has been going on for decades and will continue.
ParticipantWe already have a larger percentage of the population imprisoned than any other country on earth. Our incarceration rate has actually surpassed that of the “Evil Empire” USSR (look it up, it’s true). I believe this trend will continue upward, there is a lot of money to be made throwing people in the hoosegow. And it directly addresses the unemployment problem – you throw most of the unemployed in prison and hire the remainder to guard them. Since our prisons are increasingly owned by politically well-connected corporations, growth shall be the order of the day. This is nothing new, it has been going on for decades and will continue.
ParticipantWe already have a larger percentage of the population imprisoned than any other country on earth. Our incarceration rate has actually surpassed that of the “Evil Empire” USSR (look it up, it’s true). I believe this trend will continue upward, there is a lot of money to be made throwing people in the hoosegow. And it directly addresses the unemployment problem – you throw most of the unemployed in prison and hire the remainder to guard them. Since our prisons are increasingly owned by politically well-connected corporations, growth shall be the order of the day. This is nothing new, it has been going on for decades and will continue.
ParticipantWe already have a larger percentage of the population imprisoned than any other country on earth. Our incarceration rate has actually surpassed that of the “Evil Empire” USSR (look it up, it’s true). I believe this trend will continue upward, there is a lot of money to be made throwing people in the hoosegow. And it directly addresses the unemployment problem – you throw most of the unemployed in prison and hire the remainder to guard them. Since our prisons are increasingly owned by politically well-connected corporations, growth shall be the order of the day. This is nothing new, it has been going on for decades and will continue.
ParticipantThere are decent-looking people living in tents all over downtown now. It used to just be hardcore wastoids, addicts, and freaks, now there are a lot of people that look pretty normal. All ages too from 20s on up. I have even seen children. Drive past the library downtown sometime. There are also a lot of them east of park blvd. downtown.
ParticipantThere are decent-looking people living in tents all over downtown now. It used to just be hardcore wastoids, addicts, and freaks, now there are a lot of people that look pretty normal. All ages too from 20s on up. I have even seen children. Drive past the library downtown sometime. There are also a lot of them east of park blvd. downtown.
ParticipantThere are decent-looking people living in tents all over downtown now. It used to just be hardcore wastoids, addicts, and freaks, now there are a lot of people that look pretty normal. All ages too from 20s on up. I have even seen children. Drive past the library downtown sometime. There are also a lot of them east of park blvd. downtown.
ParticipantThere are decent-looking people living in tents all over downtown now. It used to just be hardcore wastoids, addicts, and freaks, now there are a lot of people that look pretty normal. All ages too from 20s on up. I have even seen children. Drive past the library downtown sometime. There are also a lot of them east of park blvd. downtown.
ParticipantThere are decent-looking people living in tents all over downtown now. It used to just be hardcore wastoids, addicts, and freaks, now there are a lot of people that look pretty normal. All ages too from 20s on up. I have even seen children. Drive past the library downtown sometime. There are also a lot of them east of park blvd. downtown.
March 10, 2010 at 1:26 PM in reply to: OT: Health Care in Mexico vs. U.S. (related to “Father is visiting and hospitalized…”) #524158ParticipantI love it when people who oppose a single-payer solution throw out rationing as a reason. What the heck do you call it when 50M people have no health insurance? Sure they can go to the emergency room and declare bankruptcy after they can’t pay the bill (well, they used to be able to do that before the 2005 bankruptcy reform bill), but they certainly can’t get cancer treatment, cardiac operations, etc…
We are all doomed. I am keeping the Mexico thing in mind, that is sounding like a better and better idea.
March 10, 2010 at 1:26 PM in reply to: OT: Health Care in Mexico vs. U.S. (related to “Father is visiting and hospitalized…”) #524599ParticipantI love it when people who oppose a single-payer solution throw out rationing as a reason. What the heck do you call it when 50M people have no health insurance? Sure they can go to the emergency room and declare bankruptcy after they can’t pay the bill (well, they used to be able to do that before the 2005 bankruptcy reform bill), but they certainly can’t get cancer treatment, cardiac operations, etc…
We are all doomed. I am keeping the Mexico thing in mind, that is sounding like a better and better idea.
March 10, 2010 at 1:26 PM in reply to: OT: Health Care in Mexico vs. U.S. (related to “Father is visiting and hospitalized…”) #524695ParticipantI love it when people who oppose a single-payer solution throw out rationing as a reason. What the heck do you call it when 50M people have no health insurance? Sure they can go to the emergency room and declare bankruptcy after they can’t pay the bill (well, they used to be able to do that before the 2005 bankruptcy reform bill), but they certainly can’t get cancer treatment, cardiac operations, etc…
We are all doomed. I am keeping the Mexico thing in mind, that is sounding like a better and better idea.
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