Monday's Links : JackLewis.net

March 30, 2009

WorldNetDaily: Earth hour - an hour set aside to turn off all electrical devices in order to lessen the impact on global warming, ignored by Al Gore.

RedState: Keith Olbermann exposes himself as an internet illiterate.

CBS News: Judge pleads guilty to taking kickbacks from juvenile center. Verdicts and sentencing designed to send more kids to private run juvenile center, which then paid him. In other words abused kids for money.

List Universe: Top 10 Ancient Inventions You Think Are Modern.

Oddee: 20 Fascinating Ice and Snow Sculptures.

Junk Worth Knowing: A Brief History of Exploding Whales.

UpHaa: 10 Creative Mug Designs

Posted by Danny Carlton at March 30, 2009 7:44 AM

Thank you for exposing Libertarianism, an ugly facet of Capitalism once again.

What happened in PA is an excellent example of what "for profit" institutions do TO Americans what the government should be doing for them.

If you think this is bad, did you know the health "insurance" industry is doing things like this every day to Americans?

The only reason corporations want to get into these sectors is there is a profit to be made.

Is this really better for society?

Posted by: Tom at March 31, 2009 2:19 AM

Tom, what in the world are you talking about?

Posted by: Danny Carlton at April 2, 2009 5:49 PM

Pennsylvania had a lot of kids in jail.

At some point a wise libertarian (aka capitalist) figured out that this was
not making anyone money. The obvious answer came to him: PRIVATIZE IT!

This was an especially good idea to the government because if it is "for profit"
it must be more efficient!

The problem was that each prisoner became worth $x dollars to a corporation
instead of costing society $y dollars.

Since there was a profit motive to send kids to jail the system had money to pay the judges!

Posted by: Tom at April 3, 2009 12:52 AM