i think slave masters provided some or all of "shelter, food, medical needs, clothes, and activities"
Income Inequality
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JL 0513
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Yes but it's two totally different things. You're fixated on slavery when it doesn't exist. Being put to work in prison isn't slavery.
whatever you say. the constitution says it can be done there, and many people call it that.
DriveInDriveOut
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Let's switch a word up in there and see how it looks:
Hmmm, I'm not sure you're helping your point against his prison labor / slavery comparison.
yea i just gave up when he contradicted himself lol
i dunno. way too many people are in jail in america who shouldnt be in jail.
JL 0513
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Perhaps. How about you just don't do the crime? We're blaming the justice system but how about the losers committing violence and theft?
what about weed LOL and the non violent crimes. its out of proportion, but anyways that was a good point, and i havent heard anything about community service, maybe because its short term, i have no idea. what does community service entail?
DriveInDriveOut
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LOL, ya, but without all those great perks you listed like free shelter, medical needs, food and clothing.
I don't think anyone's literally comparing the plight of the African slaves to prisoners. However, forced labor is the primary tenet of slavery, and it has no place in a system of justice.
DriveInDriveOut
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That's such a cop-out man.
How bout poor people just get better jobs, and hungry people just eat more, and and all the people in the middle east just stop killing each other, and we all just get together and hold hands and sing kumbaya.
There's always going to be criminals, our ability to deal with that and not spit in the face of basic human rights is the issue.
they should enforce the law in prisons. prisoners shouldnt go through this
ed up experience inside the system
JL 0513
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It's PRISON! It's not supposed to be a country club and yet they already get more than they should. Every added convenience or enjoyment they receive comes out of the pocket of the innocent people in society paying for their stay.
Any work that the prisoners don't do, paid staff has to do it at the taxpayers expense. Seems ass backwards to me.
You're essentially asking me to take a piece of my labor through taxes to make criminals lives better and they don't have to put any labor in. Nice.
Any work that the prisoners don't do, paid staff has to do it at the taxpayers expense. Seems ass backwards to me.
You're essentially asking me to take a piece of my labor through taxes to make criminals lives better and they don't have to put any labor in. Nice.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
No I'm not asking you to do that.
There is PROFIT to the tune of millions of dollars in the prison labor system. Your tax dollars are being spent while private companies turn a profit under the auspices of justice, that's my problem with this situation.
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Bernie Sanders @SenSanders 8h8 hours ago
It's absurd when the top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all of the kindergarten teachers in America combined.
It's absurd when the top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all of the kindergarten teachers in America combined.
newfie
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they had a better yearBernie Sanders @SenSanders 8h8 hours ago
It's absurd when the top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all of the kindergarten teachers in America combined.
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Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
That's about 55k to teach kindergarten. Not too bad.Bernie Sanders @SenSanders 8h8 hours ago
It's absurd when the top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all of the kindergarten teachers in America combined.
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