bad judgement

Well, well, well. Seems there are a couple of judges in Pennsylvania who've been taking bribes to send kids in their juvenile courts to jail.
Why would they do something like that, one might ask?
Because the owners of the jail paid them to. Why? So that the jailers could make more profit, of course, because, you see, it was a privately owned jail.
Yes, folks, in what has become a fine American Tradition, we've figured out yet another means of making a profit from the misery of our fellow human beings. God Bless America! (And, of course, when I say "God" I mean "money").

The whole rationalization of the privatization movement is that private businesses can save money versus a government run enterprise. What nobody ever bothers to mention is just who it is that the private companies save the money for: themselves.
If anyone has any evidence of privatization saving the government any money, I've yet to hear of it. I have heard plenty of reports of privatization costing the government more, while providing service that is, at best, no better than that previously provided by the government agency that was replaced. In fact, the only place that ever seems to show any "savings" is in the area of the wages paid to the poor schmucks who do the actual work.

Privatization is yet another facet of a hidden gem in the Trickle-down Theory diamond choker. Unlike the taxation thing (which may even have been designed as cover for the real agenda), the idea that what's-good-for-business-is-good-for-America still thrives, with most people accepting this idea as an absolute truth, never seeing it for being yet another way in which money is hoarded by those who dont actually do the work in creating it. In reality, what's good for business is good for Business, and it only becomes good for America if Business feels like sharing, which, like the Rich and their under taxed millions, it rarely does.


Props to Jurassic Pork for the link and the inspiration to rant.