Doesn't US have highest incarceration rate in the world, Joe, a big private and public employer, economic stimulus---and enormous drag on taxpayers. Are you suggesting it's less expensive than social welfare?

I don't know if US crime is going down, as it is here, but our federal government is following the US example by building more jails and penitentiaries. I don't know latest figures but think cost is around $50,000 annually per inmate.

Workhouses? My guess is it's less expensive to bring in hundreds of thousands of motivated immigrants on work permits to do seasonal work our citizens won't do or can't do. Productivity of the dragooned would be near zero!


Last edited by King Brown; 08/15/13 09:59 AM.