The Political Satire/Meme Thread

[TexRex]

Pity "ebola" isn't Spanish for...anything.

 

[Sander 001]

 

[Adamgp]

 

[Sander 001]

A state (or county) couldn't afford to build a new prison to reduce overcrowding in the public-funded one. So it contracted with a private firm to build a prison for them in exchange for a contract that said it would keep X% of the prison full. When the government couldn't fulfill that contract, it's no longer profitable for the private facility to keep operating. If it shuts down, that just means the government-funded facility will go back to be overcrowded. It's not a lack of supply and demand, it's a government not knowing how to manage its resources properly.

I believe something like 8% of prisoners are in private facilities and all those facilities have the same oversight as publicly funded prisons which is the Office of the Inspector General. It's not like we have a private prison problem in the US.

Ah the old 'cripple public services so we can profit off its privatization' scheme. How many more ways can that be finessed

 

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[Chrunch Houston]

 

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[Liquid]

 

[Chrunch Houston]

 

[Dennisch]

 

[Liquid]

 

[Leo Thorne]

 

[ProjectWHaT]

 

[Adamgp]

 

[McLaren]

 

[GranTurNismo]

 

[GranTurNismo]

 

[Sander 001]

 

[Sander 001]

 

[Leo Thorne]

 

[Sander 001]

 

[Dennisch]

 

[TexRex]

 

[Sander 001]

 

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[Rage Racer]

 

[Touring Mars]

At least the original poster had the good grace to change her profile to say "I know, I'm bad at math"... though one could argue that this goes a tad beyond being bad at math and ventures into the "I'm not sure what numbers are" territory.

Still, for a major news network to pick it up and run with it as a story and to not spot the error is flabbergasting.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

At least the original poster had the good grace to change her profile to say "I know, I'm bad at math"... though one could argue that this goes a tad beyond being bad at math and ventures into the "I'm not sure what numbers are" territory.

They were a bit obtuse.

 

[TexRex]

At least the original poster had the good grace to change her profile to say "I know, I'm bad at math"... though one could argue that this goes a tad beyond being bad at math and ventures into the "I'm not sure what numbers are" territory.

Still, for a major news network to pick it up and run with it as a story and to not spot the error is flabbergasting.

Totally. I'd never claim to be any good at math, but if I see hundreds of millions divided into hundreds of millions, I know the answer isn't going to have "million" at the end of it.

It was a flub, but it was a BAD flub.

 

[PocketZeven]

Totally. I'd never claim to be any good at math, but if I see hundreds of millions divided into hundreds of millions, I know the answer isn't going to have "million" at the end of it.

It was a flub, but it was a BAD flub.

We all know by now, people dont need to have intelligence to be featured on TV (or become President). So I am not surprised.