Trump to release Executive Order criminalizing homelessness. WTF!!!!!! Make America prettier????? Debtors prisons? Backwards in time? Agree/Disagree?
"The government is looking into repurposing federal buildings and former correctional facilities for housing the homeless, City Lab reported, which is a controversial approach being pushed by Robert Marbut, the White House’s lead on homelessness."
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 1843
Back to Victorian values and the good old days Mr. Trump?
Exactly going back in time.
They need those privatized prisons filled up... they promised the business to their corporate cronies... There are limited opportunities for industry now, medical, drugs, food, utilities, infrastructure. Prisons keep the minorites and others off the street and provide jobs and consume goods..( food clothing soaps detergents cleaning products).