Will anyone remember?

By Robert | March 6, 2010

In 2006, America elected a Democratic majority in the House and Senate, the country blames Bush

The democrats spent the next two years blocking, and railing against the POTUS in the media, on the net and on blogs, Blaming Bush

The Democrats took control of the House and Senate in GOOD economic times, unemployment was at less than 5% . Do not mention Bush.

By early 2008, the signs of an economic collapse were evident, but the national battle cry was blame George Bush.

Then came the election of 2008.

Americans then gave Democrats MORE power, and elected them to a super majority.

By the middle of 2009, the economy was in free fall, deficits rose to never before heights, unemployment was around 9.5%. Still Blaming Bush

By the end of 2009, Unemployment hit 10.2%, more spending ensues. Still blaming Bush

By the 3^rd month of 2010, the unemployment figure has dropped to 9.7% spending ensues. NOW, the Democrats are serious about helping to create jobs. They just passed an extension of unemployment benefits, and will take the next 2 months to ram down health care reform, they will also tackle Illegal Immigration. Spending ensues, taxes are being raised, and unemployment forecasts are grim to say the least. Still Blaming Bush

Is there anyway possible to give the Democrats MORE power? I mean that must be the problem right….

In November 2010, it’s time to reverse course. We must reverse course or our nation will cease to exist. The progressive Democrat ideals are putting us into 3^rd world status fast and if we don’t fix it this year hope is lost.

One Reply to “Will anyone remember?”

Although hard to believe, there is actually a simple way to save a billion in annual prison costs and avoid spending billions for prison construction. Passing a law authorizing the State to contract with counties for parole supervision would increase discharges by about 65,000 annually. With courts handling technical parole violations, rather than the Board of Prison Terms, parole discharges would increase from 23% to the national average of 60%. Under the courts, felony probation discharge rates have not changed for the past 30 years. Savings would result from avoiding the $17,500 cost of a four month violation term. Because of the difference in supervision costs, with counties spending about $1,200 per probationer, the $7,278 parolee per capita cost would be an economic life-line to budget starved county probation. Oregon and Minnesota have successfully contracted with counties for parole supervision since the 1970s.

The independent Legislative Analysist (LAO) made such a proposal, but hey – what politician would pay any attention to the LAO? The LAO pointed out that the $6.5 billion prison construction package would result in a 32,000 prison bed surplus by 2012 but was ignored. Other efforts to pass legislation authorizing the State to contract with counties for parole supervision have failed because of correctional employee union opposition. Don’t expect any real cuts in the bloated prison system budget any time soon.

richmck says:

March 11, 2010 at 8:47 am

Although hard to believe, there is actually a simple way to save a billion in annual prison costs and avoid spending billions for prison construction. Passing a law authorizing the State to contract with counties for parole supervision would increase discharges by about 65,000 annually. With courts handling technical parole violations, rather than the Board of Prison Terms, parole discharges would increase from 23% to the national average of 60%. Under the courts, felony probation discharge rates have not changed for the past 30 years. Savings would result from avoiding the $17,500 cost of a four month violation term. Because of the difference in supervision costs, with counties spending about $1,200 per probationer, the $7,278 parolee per capita cost would be an economic life-line to budget starved county probation. Oregon and Minnesota have successfully contracted with counties for parole supervision since the 1970s.

The independent Legislative Analysist (LAO) made such a proposal, but hey – what politician would pay any attention to the LAO? The LAO pointed out that the $6.5 billion prison construction package would result in a 32,000 prison bed surplus by 2012 but was ignored. Other efforts to pass legislation authorizing the State to contract with counties for parole supervision have failed because of correctional employee union opposition. Don’t expect any real cuts in the bloated prison system budget any time soon.

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