If you had read my comments carefully, you would have noted that the most of the admin staff is also expected to guard convicts on a part-time basis.
I still stand by what I've been told--we're cutting back on prison guards while the overall convict population skyrockets. WHY? Because there's NO cash!!!
Dubya may not have been one of the votes for NAFTA, but he is certainly promoting/enforcing its implementation with GLEE. If re-elected, he will also initiate the Central American version of NAFTA--CAFTA! I guess we can only have so many industries, high-paying jobs, and farms in the states before our rich president decides we should share the wealth with India, China, and other developing countries by hiring them instead.
As a one-worlder he LOVES outsourcing. It's cheaper...
That's something that a lot of people who are NOT farmers, engineers, entrepreneurs, factory workers, etc. will never fully understand. What do they care as long as the get their bi-weekly "fix" from Uncle Sugar. Where do you think the $$$ will come from to buy "out-sourced" products in the future if we are also relegated to third world status? Yeah, we will have a powerful military but what will they be defending?
If you don't get it. That's ok.
You're beginning to see the ramifications of his neglect.
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