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Government from local to national is deciding what is "best" for us. California wants to put remote control thermostats in homes because the government knows best. California has decided that children cannot be home schooled unless the parent has a teaching certificate because the government knows best. Mississippi has a bill pending in the legislature that fat people (as defined by the state) cannot be served in restaurants because the government knows best. Texas tells people they cannot play eight liner machines that pay out too much because the government knows best. The United States government tells us what time it is because the government knows best.
I'm tired of the government telling me what is best. I want to return to the days when I was allowed to decide for myself what is best.
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Look who the competition is now
http://www.chron.com/disp/c... I just read this story in the Houston Chronicle. This is outrageous! Texas prisons need to go back to the days when they were self sufficient. Increase the size of the farms to grow all the food eaten by the inmates. Increase the size of the herds to feed inmates and provide leather for shoes and belts. Install textile machines to provide materiel for clothing and beds. Bring back road gangs to clean ditches. 1 comments from 1 users
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thewaywardwind
on Jul 7, 2008 at 03:54 PM
John...I WAS railing at the state. This is little more than slave labor. The company is renting facilities from the state for ONE DOLLAR per year and the state is feeding the workers -- the prisoners -- and also picking up the tab for their medical care while Lufkin Industries was trying to stay in business while competing with the company being subsidised by the state. There is no way for Lufkin to cut their costs enough to compete with the prices charged using inmate labor. My point was not to attack the inmates, rather to attack the state for allowing industry to use inmate labor to undercut a private company that has fixed costs the company using inmate labor does not have. Texas prisons were -- years ago -- self sustaining. I believe they should return to that format. The state owns farms and ranches on which the inmates can work and raise crops and meat. There are state projects that inmates can co -- they used to and could again. Here in Victoria, you often see county inmates cleaning roadsides and other projects so that tax dollars don't need to be spent on them. This sort of thing can be done also at the state level.
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