Slave labor in America...and not the illegals...I'm talking about 2 million prisoners in the USA! Locked up, cheap labor for under minimum wage!
Here is the link to an eye-opener, I recommend it to get familiar with this important topic:
Slave Labor in America!
Here are some of the main points:
-The US taxpayer is paying $47,000 per inmate; meanwhile they are doing up to twelve hours labor on a dollar or two a day...or less.
-Companies that make use of this slave labor pool of prisoners include: BP, IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq,
Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom's, Revlon, Macy's Pierre Cardin, Target Stores
and Chevron! Comapnies are closing down "legitimate" places in America and re-hiring prisoners for pennies to get in on the gravy train!
-Not only is the labor far below minimum wage; the companies don't have to worry about stuff like strikes, health care, or basic conditions for
labor.
-The companies like this so much they actively lobby for more longer prison terms than are necessary...just to get more slave labor for longer amounts
of time!
(This one particularly gets me.)
-With government debt being such a big issue, isn't it time for a better system?
edit on 24-10-2011 by Partygirl because: (no reason given)