"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in
:

On Apr 5, 12:33 pm, george wrote:
On Apr 6, 4:07 am, Dudley Henriques wrote:

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:50:55 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

I take it you heard the one about the inmates in a prison

Oh, you must be referring to the fact that the states of
California Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan and Oregon
spend more on prisons than education.

http://www.aclunc.org/news/opinions/prison_vs.
_education_spending_r
ev...
For the first time, and unique among large states, California
will soon spend more on its prisons than on its public
universities. It has been projected that over the next five
years, the state's budget for locking up people will rise by
9 percent annually, compared with its spending on higher
education, which will rise only by 5 percent. By the
2012-2013 fiscal year, $15.4 billion will be spent on
incarcerating Californians, as compared with $15.3 billion
spent on educating them. Yet, despite this historic
increase in prison funding, leading legislators -- including
supporters of the increase -- and even Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's office agree that this is simply throwing
good money after bad, given the rank mismanagement plaguing
California's corrections system.

More prison spending will mean better pay for the highest
paid, most politically influential prison personnel in the
nation, as well as more prisons, but no one is certain it
will result in a better corrections system. ...

Who is going to make it right? Even public officials who know
this budget priority is wrongheaded refuse to fight it,
preferring to pander to prison personnel and afraid of
appearing "soft on crime." The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
once observed: "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'
Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity comes
along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' "

"But," King added, "Conscience asks the question 'Is it
right?' " ...

http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/...s_detail.aspx?
initiat
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http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/...etail.aspx?id=
35904
More than 1 in 100 American adults are behind bars.

And when it comes to our nation's military spending vs education
spending ...

Great segue here :-)))).

You know Larry, it's people like you who find the face of Jesus in
the ice cream sundae you just bought at the local Dairy Queen :-))

and watch in horror as your religious icon just melts away under the
light of day :-)))))

I had some little thing with a white head, that may
have been bertie, land on my ice cream, so I flicked
it off and a cat ate it.


Blessed be the cat.


So you guys figure bertie is recycled pussy poop.
Yeah that makes sense to me.

of course it does, kennie.



bertie