We used to talk about the military-industrial complex. Well, now you have the prison-industrial complex. And you have what is the ultimate solution to America’s economic problem: those who are poor, those who are powerless, those who have no access to the wealth that one needs to survive—or the resources one needs to survive, in an area where there is corporate downsizing, and there are no jobs, and there is only a service economy, and education is being cut, which is the only rung by which people can climb, the only growth industry in this part of Pennsylvania, in the eastern United States, in the southern United States, in the western United States, is, quote-unquote, corrections, for want of a better word. ”Blacks, Latinos, Hispanics-Mexicans in the West, Puerto Ricans in the East and so called White Trash-poor whites, are the raw material. We’re like the hamburgers at McDonalds, were the raw material, were being fed into this
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:23:44 +0000