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RE: The War On The Middle Class
Privatized prisons are a bad idea in the first place.
Anything done by the State should be done by the State...theoretically responsible to the voters...and not by contractors.
Having worked at a company that processed EBT transactions for Texas, I saw growth complex meet crony capitalism head-on.
Once company split into four companies over the course of time; eventually, while the number of workers require to do the job remained, the number of executives, program managers, HR drones, and other "corporate parasite" jobs exploded; raising the costs of the program for the State.
Yes, and to be clear. I agree with @richq11's post completely. I even agree with "Buy American". Pointing out the consourcing/insourcing that is in the prison slave labor complex just happens to be one of the windmills I like to tilt at. So he used one of the phrases that makes me want to add the caveat that there can be some bad cases for "Buy American" and most of society is totally unaware these things are even happening. So my statement was purely about awareness of this issue and was not intended to hijack @richq11's post.
I don't think you did ;> (maybe I did ;> privatization of State functions is one of my many pet peeves!))
Your comment added value to Rich's discussion because the loss of any job affects the middle class; it's also part of the pattern of job loss
So we have the leftists, who bragged about their plans to do exactly this to America, and we have the globalists, who get rich doing this, and we have the corruptocrats, for whom no bribe is too small regardless of ideology.
People get too worked up trying to fix an exact blame on which cause is primary, instead of fighting the policies that have these bad effects, and the specific individuals pushing those policies.