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You're preaching to the choir, my friend.  Don't get me started.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 06:14:38 PM EST
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NP, Izzy.
I thought I would at least start with something that most people here will agree with.

Because to be honest I do not agree about the ideas that Prisons are a growth industry and as such GDP will go up.
It may in a micro-economics sense but overall (macro) it takes resources out of more productive uses into wasteful uses.

Just count the number of young people that could be productive members of society instead of wasting their lives away.

You seemed to have missed the Alaskan connections. They actually sent people down to Arizona also. Cost to house and supervise is astronomical in Alaska-as far as I read.

Anyway, good diary.

------------------------------ Rutherfordian RDRutherford

by Ronald Rutherford (rdrradio1@msn.com) on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 06:56:15 PM EST
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Thanks!   There's probably a whole series of posts to be made in what I missed! lol.  The Alaska thing is interesting -- Hawaii, too.  I'm assuming for Hawaii, the real-estate is probably a factor, I don't know about Alaska -- is it heating?  shipping in provisions?  In any case, Arizona has been out front in allowing private prisons.  Someone in the dKos thread mentioned Louisiana had the state have to take over the private ones there, so that's something else that bears looking into.  

btw, the growth and gdp stuff was sarcasm.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 07:06:13 PM EST
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Yes cost of goods is more expensive relatively, but labor costs is high for trained people.
It usually ends up that people that are not really qualified get some interesting jobs in Alaska.
I remember meeting one guy that was the City Engineer for a small town. And I said what type of degree he had for that and he just looked at me like I was silly and said none, just read some books and such.

I was trained as a claims adjuster. The only requirement was any degree and take a test. Other than that they hired me because of my customer service skills.

------------------------------ Rutherfordian RDRutherford

by Ronald Rutherford (rdrradio1@msn.com) on Wed Apr 25th, 2007 at 08:13:47 PM EST
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