The Vidalia Onion and you (unemployment, controversial, cost, economy)
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
It's a public subsidy to private industry. As such, it distorts the natural incentives of the market, probably reduces innovation in farming and harvesting methods, and depresses wages for non-inmates who might be able to take those jobs at the natural market wage for that sort of labor.
Great idea. You do the crime, you serve the time in the sweltering Georgia heat picking onions. Onions are cheaper and we have a ready made source of labor.
Great idea. You do the crime, you serve the time in the sweltering Georgia heat picking onions. Onions are cheaper and we have a ready made source of labor.
I bought one the other day and there was a shank in it.
What do you think most of our massive prison population (25% of the world's imprisoned population is locked up in the US) spends part of the day doing? It's amazing the amount of private companies who contract for prison labor and then pay between 17¢ and 120¢ per hour. The US prison system is modern day slavery.
Yep. In the Good Olde Days, they used to just kill the real criminals.
Same thing that is still done in much of the world
Now in the US, they are kept in cages as a profit center.
What do you think most of our massive prison population (25% of the world's imprisoned population is locked up in the US) spends part of the day doing? It's amazing the amount of private companies who contract for prison labor and then pay between 17¢ and 120¢ per hour. The US prison system is modern day slavery.
Slaves had no choice. Inmates chose to commit crimes. There's a huge difference here.
Why can't kids and young adults get in those fields and start picking onions? With the teenage unemployment rate at like 29%, that would solve THAT problem. They used to do it in the "olden days", it was hard work but sure gave them an incentive to get a better job and an education.
These are jobs which would be done by Americans if the federal government didn't pay people more to sit on their backsides and collect welfare or extended unemployment (beyond what was earned). However, since big government pays folks to sit at home there is no reason that prisoners shouldn't do some work.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
