Eki
6th July 2010, 22:12
They just said on TV that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US has ironically become an "Island of Gulags". They said that in the US, there are over 700 prisoners per 100,000 citizens while for example in Cuba there are just over 200.
Then they showed footage from some neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY and told that half of the residents there lived below the line considered to be the limit people could survive. According to them, that was one of a districts called a "million dollar district". The name is because so many people from that area is in prison that it takes over million dollars to keep them there.
Then some professor said that the US uses prisons instead of welfare, meaning they put people who could be helped with welfare into prisons instead. As an example he named illegal immigrants. In the US they try to hunt them down and put them into prisons, while in Europe they try to find jobs or other help for the illegal immigrants. As a consequence, European countries are motivated to be very careful not to let the illegals sneak into their countries, because otherwise they'd have to pay their stay and welfare. Finally, he added that the US prisons are deliberately kept in an abominable state to use them as a deterrent for illegal immigrants.
So, what do you think? Which is a better way to use other peoples' money, to put and keep people in prisons or to help them out to continue with their lives without having to do crimes?
Then they showed footage from some neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY and told that half of the residents there lived below the line considered to be the limit people could survive. According to them, that was one of a districts called a "million dollar district". The name is because so many people from that area is in prison that it takes over million dollars to keep them there.
Then some professor said that the US uses prisons instead of welfare, meaning they put people who could be helped with welfare into prisons instead. As an example he named illegal immigrants. In the US they try to hunt them down and put them into prisons, while in Europe they try to find jobs or other help for the illegal immigrants. As a consequence, European countries are motivated to be very careful not to let the illegals sneak into their countries, because otherwise they'd have to pay their stay and welfare. Finally, he added that the US prisons are deliberately kept in an abominable state to use them as a deterrent for illegal immigrants.
So, what do you think? Which is a better way to use other peoples' money, to put and keep people in prisons or to help them out to continue with their lives without having to do crimes?