Thinking Skins Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Right now America is losing a lot of labor to foreign nations where employers will accept payment for much less than they make here. So I have an idea to correct that. Suppose that instead of having the companies of America find labor elsewhere, we allow them to use the prisoners of America but at a cost which goes towards the state, or the families of the people in jail, or towards the rich people or just somewhere? I mean, it would keep the money in America, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinInsite Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Good luck selling that to your customer base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMac Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 "Made in San Quentin" I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinking Skins Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 Good luck selling that to your customer base. C'mon do you really think THATS gonna be a problem? In fact, if you really think that would be a problem, then you have no faith in the American economy, particularly our advertising system. There would be a few activist groups that protested, but the media can easily be paid into writing good stories to back this issue. I mean, the media is so twisted that they could be paid into writing stories about how bad the media is! :laugh: And you know that whatever the media says, American citizens eat it up like its Encyclopedia Brittanica. Trust me, selling will not be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinInsite Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Granted our citizen as a whole aren't the brightest bulb in the room, but the minute some psycho kills a customer there will be hell to pay. Personally i feel great about giving my credit card to some criminal to buy a redskins jersey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 We have travelled several times to Acadia National Park in Maine for vacation. Along the way we always stop at the Maine State Correctional Facility Gift Shop on Rte. 1. They have some excellent woodworked items, everything from cutting boards to furniture, and well made. The pieces are usually stamped/burned with "Made at the Maine State Correctional Facility." I think it's great and we always buy something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I'd agree with using prisoners as a labor force if you paid them. The reason I say this is simple, you don't want them to become a slave pool creating profits for someone. That would provide an incentive that could seriously corrupt the entire justice system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Bring back chain gangs. .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TODD Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 We have travelled several times to Acadia National Park in Maine for vacation. Along the way we always stop at the Maine State Correctional Facility Gift Shop on Rte. 1. They have some excellent woodworked items, everything from cutting boards to furniture, and well made. The pieces are usually stamped/burned with "Made at the Maine State Correctional Facility." I think it's great and we always buy something. That's all nice and dandy, and definitely a productive way for prisoners to spend some time, but it's a little different when we're considering sweats and clothing which are extremely monotonous and unrewarding unlike woodwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I agree that woodworking would be much more rewarding than sweatshop work. They're serious criminals, they shouldn't automatically be given rewarding work. They should earn their priveleges. Sweatshop work is hard honest work, and could be considered punishment, but I don't think it qualifies as "cruel and unusual." I agree with Destino, however, that they should get something out of it, such as pay or privelege increases, or after a certain amount of time, a chance to do another kind of work which is more rewarding and/or more to their liking such as woodwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor 36 Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 But, doesn't that still defeat the purpose. Americans, honest, hard working, Americans would still be losing those jobs. It is not so much an issue as to where they are made as it is an issue of exporting jobs that kills the economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 They should put prisoners to work burying power lines. Power lines are a wart on our country's landscape. My pet peeve. :cuss: ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumodat Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I have been saying this for a while! Why let them just sit there and do nothing? Put them to work. The work that they do now thay only make like $.90 an hour anyway. I think it is a good idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomerics Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I have been saying this for a while! Why let them just sit there and do nothing?Put them to work. The work that they do now thay only make like $.90 an hour anyway. I think it is a good idea! It is a horrible idea. You would completely open yourself up for corruption and exploitation. This would be akin to slave labor. So what if some rich politician is starting a new company, he's going to need workers right? Why not start putting people in jail for other meaningless crimes so you can increase your labor pool? No freakin way would I ever give ANY government that much power, that is what you had in the likes of the concentration camps and in the gulags. There is absolutely nothing American about it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinking Skins Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 But, doesn't that still defeat the purpose. Americans, honest, hard working, Americans would still be losing those jobs. It is not so much an issue as to where they are made as it is an issue of exporting jobs that kills the economy. I'm just presenting this option as an alternative to the option of companies going overseas for labor. At least with this, the money stays in the US. Given it would be better if non-prisoners got the jobs, but if the companies are gonna go overseas for labor, there's gotta be something we can do to compete with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinking Skins Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 It is a horrible idea. You would completely open yourself up for corruption and exploitation. This would be akin to slave labor. So what if some rich politician is starting a new company, he's going to need workers right? Why not start putting people in jail for other meaningless crimes so you can increase your labor pool? No freakin way would I ever give ANY government that much power, that is what you had in the likes of the concentration camps and in the gulags. There is absolutely nothing American about it at all. Yeah now that you mention it, the American legal system is corrupt enough as it is with people being put in jail for confessions that were beat out of them. I figure that if we impliment this procedure, you'd see a whole lot more confessions and bloddy faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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