Russell Coker wrote:
Instead of spending so much money imprisoning people it would be better to spend the money training them so that they can get a job. Then they would be paying tax rather than costing us money.
To save even more money we could refrain from sending our armed forces in the service of the US empire. A lot of the refugees are from countries that the US broke with our help.
We could close the loop -- train the refugees to be soldiers, arm them, and send them back to their old country to murder their former patriates! \end{horrific satire} I'll tell you what's sick! People in the UK, in the US, fucking Canada, Sweden - they pay their taxes and some remote-piloted drone fires a missile into a public market to hit some warlord. Yeah, so maybe war doesn't happen for another six months, and the price of that gluten-free sorghum bread stays low. It's not sick to arm people, it's sick to bump off their crooks and dictators in protection of our interests and then call it international justice. These people don't have remote-piloted drones guarding their interests ten-thousand miles away. They don't have a war machine paid for with taxes. Where I am, they usually don't even have a fucking government. The drone is the oppressor. The gluten-free sorghum bread is the oppressor. The AK-47 is the great equalizer. I empower these people. -- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Far_Cry_2