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No Fiscal Cliff Deal Could Cause Jails To Release Inmates
Associated Press via CBS Seattle ^
| December 25, 2012
| Associated Press
Posted on 12/25/2012 7:44:37 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
So why don’t we utilize the death penalty? Stupid liberals.
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:46:18 PM PST
by
Luke21
To: Lancey Howard
Is it any wonder civilized people are stocking up on guns and ammo?
“Merry Cliffmas!”
To: Lancey Howard
Stupidity is the Liberal way.
Why not lay off some of the useless staff that are friends and contributors and political appointees, instead of exposing the public to criminals?
Why? Because it's for EFFECT, NOT because of a shortage that can't be handled without risk.
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:48:01 PM PST
by
traditional1
(Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
To: Lancey Howard
0bamaCare should include a couple of lead implants to be power inserted into the brains of the incorrigible.
Think of the savings to gov't and society.
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:49:37 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Admin Moderator; All
I forgot to check the ‘excerpt’ box.
Sorry about that.
To read the rest of the article, just click the AP link below the thread title.
To: Luke21
How would the death penalty have any bearing on this story?
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:53:06 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: Lancey Howard
As usual, when the government leeches are threatened by budget cuts, they warm that police and firemen will be laid off, or in this case, violent prisoners will be set free. Why not fire the hordes of “non-essential” paper pushers that take off during a snow storm instead? No one misses them....which is why that threat is never made.
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:53:48 PM PST
by
txrefugee
To: doc1019
Liberals want to lock people up, not execute them. They constantly whine that keeping murderers behind bars is more humane and cost effective. But now they are threatening to release convicts into the streets.
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:56:42 PM PST
by
Luke21
To: Luke21
With less and less people working in the private sector, surely there is a surplus of IRS agents who could be dismissed with no great loss.
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:58:32 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: doc1019
Instead of releasing these low level offenders, perhaps we should shoot them instead. The odds are that would lead to some real, long term savings to society.
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:58:32 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Lancey Howard
There’s the entire staff of the EPA and Dept. of Education, that could be sent home tomorrow, with only positive results.
So, this type of legislative blackmail is crap, and the perps ought to be FIRED as well!
Let’s face it, the Federal government actions do NOTHING to “protect the environment” or “educate” ANYONE!
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posted on
12/25/2012 7:59:41 PM PST
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: Lancey Howard
In a time of budget cuts, cases where inmates get out of jail with little punishment only to commit more serious crimes shortly after their release have become all too common, authorities say. The primary responsibility of the federal government is national security. Similarly, the primary responsibility of local government is public safety.
Ergo, fire, police and jail budgets are the last that should be cut.
Obviously, Lane County, Oregon -- a notoriously liberal county -- has a different set of priorities.
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:01:11 PM PST
by
okie01
To: Lancey Howard
A scenario that police in western Oregon feared came true in the thick of holiday season after two dozen inmates were freed from a county jail that could no longer afford to hold them. Why don't they keep all the employees and just reduce their salaries by 5 or 10 percent?
They won't do that because releasing prisoners is their way of extorting more "revenue" from the taxpayers.
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:04:54 PM PST
by
oldbrowser
(They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
To: Lurker
There is that. ;-)
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:07:29 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: G Larry
So, this type of legislative blackmail is crap, and the perps ought to be FIRED FRIED as well!
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:08:09 PM PST
by
umgud
(No Rats, No Rino's)
To: Lancey Howard
What on earth does a county jail have to do with funding of the federal behemoth?
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:11:33 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Lancey Howard
Maybe we should drop the focus on malum prohibidum crimes, and focus on those crimes where individual rights are violated.
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:14:32 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Paladin2
Release them and put the real criminals, Obama, Holder, Pelosi, and Reid, where they belong.
To: Lancey Howard
Running out of other peoples money might cause criminals to be free, but I am sure it will not cause pay reductions in the Goobermint that frees them.
After all, the goobermint does have its priorities.
Besides, goobermint officials can empathize easily with criminals these days.
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posted on
12/25/2012 8:20:15 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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