OK left wing, you win. You have been successful at putting the country on the road to bankruptcy with your socialist "everyone deserves everything and nobody deserves nothing" policies. The topic of the day is the US prison system. Please refer here and here for more information on the topic.
So 1 in 100 US adults are in prison. That's fine for the most part. 1 in 100 US adults probably deserve to be in prison, and that ratio should be higher in my mind. So what is the problem? The cost for "corrections" (the liberal term for babysitting) in this country was $44 billion dollars last year. California alone spent $9 billion last year on babysitting prisoners, which amounts to roughly $50,000 a year per prisoner. Holy crap! Given that over 80% of prisoners are repeat offenders, you can't honestly tell me that money is being well spent. Unless the guards are getting gold embroidered silk toilet paper, I can't imagine why a prisoner who will most likely never, ever legally contribute $50,000 to society should have that much spent on them. Granted the amount spent for a prisoner per year on average is just under 20 grand, I state the extreme to make a case against the extremists.
In some states the government spends more on babysitting than on public education, including higher education. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that can only lead to a vicious cycle of a less educated populace with more criminals per capita, but it does take a liberal "human rights" activist to manipulate the world into thinking anything other than 5 star prison treatment is wrong.
Here is my solution (which I owe partly to my brother). The most vile criminals who are in for a life sentence or more should be given the death penalty. Let's do the math, assuming your state still has the budget to teach you math. A young 25 year old married man kills his wife and unborn child. He gets life in jail without parole. Sounds reasonable right? Assuming the average (not even accounting for inflation!) of $20,000 per year for 40 years. The government will spend $800,000 keeping him alive. That's a conservative calculation there, and the overall cost is astronomical. The US can not afford to keep these people alive.
So if that is too harsh, outsource our prison system to China and Russia. We'll pay for the flight over, and then we'll just match what they spend per prisoner and give that money to them. It's bound to be a lot cheaper. And it's certainly bound to get people to think twice about committing a crime when they know they are heading off to the sweatshops in China, or to the steppes of Siberia.
If that doesn't work, then build a snowfort prison in freakin' Antarctica, 1,000 miles away from anyone. Give them all a warm coat, and drop supplies off every week or so. This ought to please the liberals because the prisoners would get everything they want. They wouldn't be restricted to tiny inhumane cells. They wouldn't be chained up like dogs (which is illegal according to PETA). They can do whatever they want. There are no restrictions on visitors; they can come and go whenever they want. And if the repeat offender child molester wants out to continue destroying society along with his liberal activist judge who gave him a 30 day sentence, he's free to leave whenever he wants.
My final solution if those are all too cruel is to bring back forced labor. Force prisoners to "do the jobs Americans won't" and then pay to send all the illegal immigrants to technical trade schools. That would do more for the economy than any stimulus package ever would. Make these prisoners earn their room and board through free labor. Make them rebuild a part of the society they so readily destroyed.
Why does the American public education system fail? Because instead of investing in our success and future, we're too busy babysitting our past failures.
2/29/08
2/13/08
Treason in America
Treason is defined by Merriam-Webster as 1: the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance 2: Berkeley, CA. If you aren't familiar with the incident, please Google "Berkeley" and any of the following: "Anti-Marine," "Liberal," "Code Pink," "City Council," or "War Protest." If hearing whatever you have heard doesn't cause your blood to boil, then just consider yourself one of Satan's anti-American minions.
My solution to the problem is simple. In fact, I offer two fair-minded solutions. They both stem from the fact that the city of Berkeley, and anyone who supports the Council's decision to "uninvite" Armed Forces recruiters and to grant Code Pink a parking spot in front of the Marine's recruiting office so they can more easily protest, is guilty of treason as per the aforementioned definition. So the first solution is really pretty simple. Rather than take an entire horde of liberal psychos to court to try them, allow Berkeley and all who will follow to secede from the nation. Be sure to strip them of any form of American Armed Forces protection. Then immediately invade Berkeley with brutal military force, and send everyone to Guantanamo to be tried in the military courts. Since these people previously lived in California, they won't mind being crowded into an inadequately small space anyway.
The second solution is fair-minded, but a little less realistic. And this goes for anyone who takes anti-war protesting beyond sane and established methods (sane methods like voting for anti-war officials, and protesting while NOT wearing anything pink). I plead with anyone who is sincerely against the war to go and protest in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you really feel that strongly about it, go over there and do something about it. Go stand in front of the tanks, sniper bullets, and shrapnel, and win the support of the people. Choose a nice dictator to take over. And heck, stay over there in your new, fun paradise. That way the troops can come home, the war will end, and we'll owe it all to your efforts.
I would honestly rather live next to a current Guantanamo detainee than next to one of these pink Berkelified lunatics. At least I'd know how to defend myself.
My solution to the problem is simple. In fact, I offer two fair-minded solutions. They both stem from the fact that the city of Berkeley, and anyone who supports the Council's decision to "uninvite" Armed Forces recruiters and to grant Code Pink a parking spot in front of the Marine's recruiting office so they can more easily protest, is guilty of treason as per the aforementioned definition. So the first solution is really pretty simple. Rather than take an entire horde of liberal psychos to court to try them, allow Berkeley and all who will follow to secede from the nation. Be sure to strip them of any form of American Armed Forces protection. Then immediately invade Berkeley with brutal military force, and send everyone to Guantanamo to be tried in the military courts. Since these people previously lived in California, they won't mind being crowded into an inadequately small space anyway.
The second solution is fair-minded, but a little less realistic. And this goes for anyone who takes anti-war protesting beyond sane and established methods (sane methods like voting for anti-war officials, and protesting while NOT wearing anything pink). I plead with anyone who is sincerely against the war to go and protest in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you really feel that strongly about it, go over there and do something about it. Go stand in front of the tanks, sniper bullets, and shrapnel, and win the support of the people. Choose a nice dictator to take over. And heck, stay over there in your new, fun paradise. That way the troops can come home, the war will end, and we'll owe it all to your efforts.
I would honestly rather live next to a current Guantanamo detainee than next to one of these pink Berkelified lunatics. At least I'd know how to defend myself.
2/11/08
Confession
I need to tell everyone about my longstanding addiction to meth. That has led me to despise myself, my wife and my kid. I'm having multiple extramarital affairs resulting in an unknown number of illegitimate children. I was recently arrested for multiple infractions of domestic abuse. I have never attended one day of school. I leave every morning and try and find reasons to stay away until at least 5pm.
Some of you who know me might ask why I have turned to this lifestyle. The answer is simple. It's all a lie. It's the lie my wife is going to tell the Medi-Cal social worker so we can get our son on the Governmental-Disaster-of-the-Precursor-to-Universal-Health-Care plan. Now you're really asking yourself the question. "Why would you lie to get on Medi-Cal?"
Good Question.
Let me paint the scene. I am in dental school. My tuition for the next four years will total an amount roughly five times greater than every dollar I have made in my life up to this point. I am going to borrow just about every penny I will need to feed, clothe, insure and care for my family, as well as invest in a stable profession for our future. I haven't made a dime for over six months, and my wife makes a nominal amount of money as she works part time at home. She stays at home with our baby. We both feel that if she had a job that would necessitate day care for our son, the monetary benefits would never outweigh the benefit of raising a useful, mentally and physically healthy, productive member of society. Continuing on. I won't make another dime for three and a half years. The school offers a great insurance plan for me, which is covered with the cost of tuition. It would cost roughly $300 a month to insure my wife and son. That's fine, except the school WON'T approve that additional in my budget, so I can't take out a loan for it. That leaves me with three options.
The first is to take out a private loan to pay for that insurance. The second option would be to get on Medi-Cal, which is free to those who "qualify." The third would be to stay uninsured.
If you're like me, you would choose the free option. And here is where it gets interesting. I am all for our government lending a temporary helping hand to those whose circumstances merit such help. But my experiences in the past seven months have jaded me.
"Welfare" isn't for the well-being of anyone anymore. It has become a system whereby people who have made reckless decisions can get a freebie. Here, let me offer you a portrait of our local Transitional Assistance Department.
La gran mayoria no son ciudadanos de este pais. Porque entonces, califican para recibir Medi-Cal y Cash-Aid? Y porque tengo que esperar aun mas tiempo mientras se encuentra alguien para traducir? Exactly. A few guys sit in different corners, twitching uncontrollably while they wait for their number. A precariously portly almost post adolescent neonazi mom of three threatens to "BEEPIN' BEAT" her kids "BEEP!!!" A few other people become irrate that they missed their numbers being called because they were outside smoking.
What are these people transitioning to, or from? Will any of these people ever pay back into this system?
It became painstakingly clear why, after seven months of beaurocratic red-tape, my wife and son are not on Medi-Cal. It is only for people who are transitioning into a state of complete and indefinite dependence on the tax payers of California. We don't fit the bill. So instead they give us the unending run around as to why we haven't been accepted. The quintessence of the incompetence of the system is captured in the excuse "There is no way I can tell you if your son is accepted or not. The best thing to do would be to take him to a doctor and then wait and see if you get a bill." Case and point!
So now you understand why I would make up such a silly lie. If my wife could say that I was that person, we'd already have had our golden ticket to the Golden State's Transitional Treasures.
Some of you who know me might ask why I have turned to this lifestyle. The answer is simple. It's all a lie. It's the lie my wife is going to tell the Medi-Cal social worker so we can get our son on the Governmental-Disaster-of-the-Precursor-to-Universal-Health-Care plan. Now you're really asking yourself the question. "Why would you lie to get on Medi-Cal?"
Good Question.
Let me paint the scene. I am in dental school. My tuition for the next four years will total an amount roughly five times greater than every dollar I have made in my life up to this point. I am going to borrow just about every penny I will need to feed, clothe, insure and care for my family, as well as invest in a stable profession for our future. I haven't made a dime for over six months, and my wife makes a nominal amount of money as she works part time at home. She stays at home with our baby. We both feel that if she had a job that would necessitate day care for our son, the monetary benefits would never outweigh the benefit of raising a useful, mentally and physically healthy, productive member of society. Continuing on. I won't make another dime for three and a half years. The school offers a great insurance plan for me, which is covered with the cost of tuition. It would cost roughly $300 a month to insure my wife and son. That's fine, except the school WON'T approve that additional in my budget, so I can't take out a loan for it. That leaves me with three options.
The first is to take out a private loan to pay for that insurance. The second option would be to get on Medi-Cal, which is free to those who "qualify." The third would be to stay uninsured.
If you're like me, you would choose the free option. And here is where it gets interesting. I am all for our government lending a temporary helping hand to those whose circumstances merit such help. But my experiences in the past seven months have jaded me.
"Welfare" isn't for the well-being of anyone anymore. It has become a system whereby people who have made reckless decisions can get a freebie. Here, let me offer you a portrait of our local Transitional Assistance Department.
La gran mayoria no son ciudadanos de este pais. Porque entonces, califican para recibir Medi-Cal y Cash-Aid? Y porque tengo que esperar aun mas tiempo mientras se encuentra alguien para traducir? Exactly. A few guys sit in different corners, twitching uncontrollably while they wait for their number. A precariously portly almost post adolescent neonazi mom of three threatens to "BEEPIN' BEAT" her kids "BEEP!!!" A few other people become irrate that they missed their numbers being called because they were outside smoking.
What are these people transitioning to, or from? Will any of these people ever pay back into this system?
It became painstakingly clear why, after seven months of beaurocratic red-tape, my wife and son are not on Medi-Cal. It is only for people who are transitioning into a state of complete and indefinite dependence on the tax payers of California. We don't fit the bill. So instead they give us the unending run around as to why we haven't been accepted. The quintessence of the incompetence of the system is captured in the excuse "There is no way I can tell you if your son is accepted or not. The best thing to do would be to take him to a doctor and then wait and see if you get a bill." Case and point!
So now you understand why I would make up such a silly lie. If my wife could say that I was that person, we'd already have had our golden ticket to the Golden State's Transitional Treasures.
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