Your hard-earned tax dollars well-spent.

[tinytartte]

This is ridiculous.  Some excerpts:

"For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison. . ."

". . .the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education

Comments

[patrickbakula]

haha "corrections." thats the kind of stuff that keeps this going. theyre not rotton, disgusting, worthless human beings. theyre "corrections," and that kind of sounds okay. (not that some people in prison arent good hearted wrong-place-wrong-time types, but you know what i mean)

[tinytartte]

The problem (in this particular case) is less the poeple and more the system. Why are we just locking people up for 5 years -- when that's all that's being done, all we're doing is postponing more violence.

[keithie]

so, does Libertarian mean you want the perpetrators of violence to be out amongst the rest of us

[sleepytimeuno]

yeah i saw this earlier today and just shook my head. but you know, there isnt a single person that still in the primary race that has a chance of turning around stuff like this. when you think about it, considering that convicts can't vote, even after they are released, all the government has to do is slide you in with the rest of the 1% of the population and your voice is silenced (at least as far as voting goes). here in WV, 1% of the vote for governor gives your party ballot access. so considering that, that 1% speaks a lot louder.

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." - henry david thoreau

oh yeah, i found you on the open letter thing on the front page. sorry for the randomness and the typo or two i surely made.

[tinytartte]

I really enjoyed your comment! Thanks for randomly finding me -- I enjoy intelligent (polite) debate and philosophical thinking. So, you rock.

[sleepytimeuno]

as do I. this year i've been particularly fed up lately. mostly because of the authoritative slip we are in with the executive branch. its odd to think that we dont have a single presidential candidate in the race right now (save ron paul, though i dont know if he's still in the race at this point) that is better on civil liberties than the current president. they've all been run out of the race. and slowly we slip further and further. the real difference between the two parties is simply, who gets what tax break. thats pretty much it

[tinytartte]

Yes, I'm a Christian libertarian. :) It's, honestly, the viewpoint I think fits my faith the best -- I believe in my rights to be a Christian and act like one, and everyone else's rights to be whatever they want and act like that -- until they interfere with someone's else rights, of course.

[riebee]

I'm going to build a spaceship and move to a new planet. You can come along if you like.

[tinytartte]

Thanks, but Styx already invited me. . . .to come sail away.