Reply #7: In a sane nation, run by normal people

[Tsiyu]

we would do just as you have suggested.

It's true that manufacturing plants are hiring here, and that they lament the lack of skilled labor, but it's also true that there are few opportunities and locations for people to acquire those skills.

We'd rather spend money on For-Profit prisons than spend that money on vocational schools. The reasons: Corporations get cheap prison labor (.22 an hour) and the For-Profit prisons get packed with $$$$$$$ victims $$$$$$.

Who needs to educate people when we can imprison them so easily?

Yes, this is the best some people can think up as a money-making scheme.

Look for Corrections Corp and Wackenhut and all the others to invest heavily in the coming elections...