8/11/07
Just like Saran Wrap-from one extreme to the other
I think almost everybody with email has, at one time or another, gotten the email about the sheriff in Arizona who keeps taxpayer costs down at his correctional facility by providing only the bare minimum comforts required by law. (By the way, the Iraq analogy pisses me off, the middle class is full of honest people who work in extreme heat just to put food on the table.) On the other hand, I got an email yesterday from another friend with a link to this video which shows prisoners in another facility performing a recreation of Michael Jackson's Thriller. My initial reaction was "nice dancing sissies, I'm glad the taxpayer's dollar is being well spent." The truth is the prison system is not the only place where my money is wasted. Our elected officials live in a much more comfortable setting than the poor schlubs they are paid to represent. I wonder how much more effecient our government would function if our representatives were forced to live like their constituents. There are days in my job where I don't get to go home at the end of my shift because I still have work to do. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Congress should not adjourn until George Bush and his crew are either living in tents in Arizona or cavorting with the "girls" on cell block C.
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The reason I found the video was because there was an article about it in the local Boulder newspaper a couple of days ago. It is pretty cool. The rehersals are done during thier own yard time. Where they have seen fights and arguments and very little activity, they now see the inmates (some of which are hard core criminals) helping each other out, rooting for each other to do well, laughing when they don't, practicing in there cells. And I beleive it is all put together by the inmates. If you can find the story, it is cool to read.
Do you know what else would keep the inmates from fighting? Working in the hot sun on the highway to help pay for their food and lodging. I will look for the article though. I'm sure that in some granola eating, tree hugging way, all that sissy dancing is helping to ease the tax burden for the american working man.
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