how to exit a recession... 2828 Responses

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• rtr

  http://www.kansascity.com/news/n…

  If America wants to get out of this recession maybe we should just let out some of the low level criminals and give them the jobs that nobody wants to do and they would be supervised and even get to keep some of the money and reduce their sentence. The remainder of the money they earn can be divided up amongst all QBN members and then productivity would be higher in America. 1/100 Americans are in Jail.

  Feb 28, 08, 11:37 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  +1

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 12:08 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  I hear in California they are thinking of doing that, since the financial situation is so bad.

  • ...and then simultaneously imprison our current administration as they watch on tv our country heal itself .– rtr

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 12:13 a.m. – Permalink

• monNom

  don't they do that already?... like for call centers, licence plates, road crews, etc.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 12:22 a.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  hmm...think they should put the homeless into that program instead of jail birds.

  • what if someone slips through the cracks thats not supposed too? dont you think more crimes would get committed if people were let out prematurely?– Iggyboo1/2

    get out prematurely?– Iggyboo2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 12:42 a.m. – Permalink

• rtr

  I guess you're right they do it now a bit but maybe they can expunge some of the pot 'criminals' records and people who couldn't pay child support and let them be free and work and generate taxes. We pay teachers less than it costs to keep a person in jail for a year.

  • in good magazine, it said teacher gets more $$$ then firefighters. like double.– akrokdesign1/4

    geting a little off topic. anyway. its late. :-)– akrokdesign2/4

    i heard $30,000=jailbird
    and $28,000=teacher
    and ???$14,000=firefight…– rtr3/4

    Teachers here start out at $41,000, Cops end up with around $58,000 after the first year and extras and I hear firefighters are around the same– voiceof4/4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 12:47 a.m. – Permalink

• ESPtype

  i'm not sure this would help... just lead to a bigger lower class

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 5:04 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  i say we declare war on the economy, i bet that'll solve it.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 6:19 a.m. – Permalink

• former2

  wouldn't you think that many of them were criminals because they didn't want to participate in a regular/lower class lifestyle?

  I agree about some of the ridiculous charges. Costs us too much. Just stupid.

  • correct... but those kind of people do not help the economy either. Giving them jobs can only take away from people that acaully are good hard working citizens– ESPtype

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 6:28 a.m. – Permalink

• Iggyboo

  Wait a second here release all the Low Level Criminals!?... People go to jail for a reason. Your saying give them a job ok... What jobs are we giving them? No serious lets be specific because last I checked most jails operated like a business and do have people work and do stuff to bring in extra revenue. And that is for the good behavior ones. But your saying give them jobs ( outside the jail ) that no one wants to do ( where are they housed on their own? ) if not.. so we can allow jails to become even more corrupt and unctrollable ( by bringing in outside elements ).. And lets be honest you cant deviate what jobs people do, unless their in the jail. Although If you did set it up so that they could pick their job in a controlled environment and they worked for the govt and they could make extra cash to give to their families outside of the jail it might be able to work. That's suggesting that their is talent in the jail system. What if their all petty criminals without an education? There's alot more worms than you realized by suggesting this. Amd If jailtime becomes indentured servitude for committing petty crimes... Than we are Rome.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 6:46 a.m. – Permalink

• mrdobolina

  are you really advocating prison labor?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:34 a.m. – Permalink

• tasty

  The media could stop striking fear into people and riding out hype.

  We are in a decline but it has not been long enough to be considered a recession.

  • I'll make up a word for them to put in the headlines.
    
    PreCession.– tasty

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:38 a.m. – Permalink

• joyride

  haha... that's funny. I don't think these people did crimes because they couldn't get jobs and needed to survive.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:38 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  Yes, I'm sure that the artificially-supported economy created by the addition of an extra 500,000 low level workers will fill up that 9 trillion dollar deficit in no time.

  If you want to save your economy - stop buying so much meaningless consumer crap from other countries, petition for massive reduction in military spending and save more money.

  It's quite easy really - well, the theory is - it's just that westerners are too fucking greedy and lazy. Myself included, before you think I'm being all aloof and superior.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:42 a.m. – Permalink

• mrdobolina

  //nah detritus, prison labor is the answer...

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:47 a.m. – Permalink

• BonSeff

  we need to reinvent ourselves, like another industrial revolution

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:51 a.m. – Permalink

• Drno

  It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
  REM

  its too late guys, say hello to recession

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:54 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  For different reasons to supporting a malign economy, I kind of agree with prison labour. It's not a subject I know too much about, but if I were in prison, I know I'd rather be doing 'something' other than staring at ceilings and avoiding man rape each day. I mean, why should tax payers have to pay so much to support a system the majority of whom spend their lives not wanting anything to do with?

  Obviously, I'm not talking chain gangs - but I can't see how leaving someone to fester in the clink for x years is doing them or society as a whole any favours.

  It just struck me a few weeks back when I watched a Louis Theroux programme on San Quentin - the annual budget was something ridiculous like $25/50 million dollars - that's .. well, rather a lot of money to spend on just having people rot.

  If you do the crime - you should do the time.. and pay for it as well.

  • yeah, give em a job and then when they actually do get out they would at least have some skill to build on and if they are going to eat they need to work.– rtr

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:55 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  Oh, and they should stop putting people in the clink for drug possession offences, that's just fucking retarded.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 7:56 a.m. – Permalink

• mrdobolina

  //china and russia use(d) prison labor, there is/was absolutely no corruption or funny business going on there at all.

  • prisons are already corrupt here. need to be reformed somehow– rtr

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 8 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  "President Bush on Monday submitted a $3.1-trillion budget for the next fiscal year that reflected his strategy for dealing with a costly war and a troubled economy: substantially boost military expenditures, rein in domestic spending -- including for Medicare -- and more than double the deficit."

  Is it just me, or is that entire thought process arse about face?

  http://www.latimes.com/news/nati…

  

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  Dog-earFeb 29, 08, 8 a.m. – Permalink