#45 “Small Town Values and Outsourcing”

Dear Don1001,

Thomson Correctional Center in the northwestern part of Illinois is currently empty.

It’s where President Obama had ordered the Federal government to subcontract a prison for prisoners being transferred from Guanténamo Bay, Cuba. The prison facility would have hired a couple hundred locals, but airhead conservatives and pansy liberals fretted that some of these sad sacks might go over the wire and go on one-man terror sprees. So the gutless “Left and Right” in Congress made sure those Muslim Rambos stayed in Cuba. So the people living around the Thomson Correctional Center never got to pop the top on those celebratory brews. And there would have been a celebration because in a lot of rural areas of the U.S. the only real source of any decent employment are prisons. Rural areas especially love Federal Prisons, because of perks of an upgraded infrastructure and an elevated pay scale. So why the Hell, are we outsourcing prisons to other countries? You can torture someone just as well in a Federal prison as some Third World Country, where our tax dollars are given to people that don’t pay Federal taxes or Social Security. In fact, I bet we can torture much more cost effective in the U.S. because currency exchanges and we have the “technicians” already on the “books.” And the people overseeing the selective persuasion can have a social life and see their kids grow up (local schools are almost always upgraded) instead being in Cuba or some other God awful place. Did Dick Cheney or William Kristal ever think about the little people that make “enhanced interrogation” happen? I don’t think so. They’re people, too. Sweet Jesus! A Jack Herer buzz just keeps creeping higher. (Big drink of coffee) Where was I? There are scores of small towns in Appalachia and in the Southeast that have lost thousands of manufacturing jobs that would love the $18 an hour jobs that our prisons provide. On top of that, there are countless people like my brother “Jim Bob” (who stopped counting how many guns he had at 30) who would love it if a terrorist escaped. Seriously, the people who think I’m a “hardcore” don’t have a clue. In areas, where making a living is hard, you have hard people. The authorities in these places would have so many civilians with guns out hunting any escapee that it would probably freak them out. Where I grew up you couldn’t use dogs to hunt deer but you could use them to hunt humans. I don’t know about your people but my people have never worried about terrorists. Which is another myth “That Americans think that it is better to fight Islo-fascism over there”, the truth is that most Americans would rather fight terrorists here than anywhere else. The American people are armed to the teeth and right now they’re not in that good of a mood, so I don’t think we need to worry about a few dozen loser Muslim wannabes. And that hopefully those “pussies” in Washington will rethink “outsourcing” what red-blooded Americans do more of than other nation on earth, incarcerate people. We have the highest percent of our adult population in Jail than other country in the World, so we have the technology. So why should we send more jobs to Third World countries? 

                                             Why, indeed, Brother Gregory 

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