Re: Prisons in YOUR future!

[Stephen Gelb <gelb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Re Jim D. on the blessings of more prisons:
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> I am reminded of the tragic-hilarious documentary movie "Roger and Me"
> (also shown in far away Norway) about what happened in Flint, Ohio (?)
> when GM closed up its operations there and the town collapsed
> afterwards. Then also there was "a silver lining" in the form of  a
> brand new prison, just in time for the steeply rising crime rate, which
> again was due mainly to skyrocketing unemployment after the GM
> closure.  I distinctly remember the scene where we were told that
> prison guards (former auto workers) were happily employed guarding the
> inmates (also former auto workers)....
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> (Now, what was the name of the guy behind that movie??)
Mike Moore - was the filmmaker, Roger Smith the GM exec. Moore has just finished a movie about a US invasion of Canada in response to poltical upheaval here. Yet another way of carrying out a Keynesian demand injection, with the added benefit of providing the general populace with distracting chauvinistic ideology. The film stars the late, and in canada much lamented, John Candy.

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