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Liberal bed-wetting, hand-wringing, whining alert

People who employ no personal responsibility in their life and career choices, choosing, instead, to live off of the efforts of others, belong in prison. Prison, today, is an icon of liberals who hold prisoners and ex-cons up as "victims of a heartless society" and as "people who are worthy of idolatry".

What the author conveniently ignores, in his liberal rant against the prison system, is that prior to Clinton's decision to initiate a recession in 1999 and 2000 by raising interest rates simply because he could manipulate Greenspan into doing it (which Greenspan has admitted), employment was so hot and the pool of unemployed workers was growing so small, that ex-cons were being hired for very lucrative and well-paying jobs.

There are other instances of ex-cons getting out and returning to lawful employment that the author refuses to acknowledge. The biggest problem with the recidivism rate is that too many cons LIKE their illegal career activities and don't feel as though they are risking anything by continuing their life of crime.

Look at how their life of crime pays off for them:

1) It effectively allows them to avoid taking responsibility for anything,
2) Crime allows them to live off of the efforts of others by stealing money or goods that can be sold or traded for cash or drugs,
3) Once caught, the criminal is provided an attorney at the expense of those of us who work and pay taxes,
4) While incarcerated, the criminal is housed, clothed, fed, educated and provided with better healthcare than most law-abiding people can afford at the public's expense,
5) While incarcerated, criminals are provided access to gyms, cable TV and law libraries that allow them to file frivolous lawsuits that clog the courst and cost more taxpayer money,
6) Many criminals CONTINUE their criminal activities in prison (or learn NEW criminal skills) thanks to having access to computers or performing jobs processing sales receipts or other similar functions that bring them into contact with the personal/private information of law-abiding citizens.

Overall, those who choose a life of crime have decided that they want to live other people's lives without WORKING for it; it's much easier for them to steal it. Ask anyone whose identity has been stolen (for example) how easy their life became, constantly having to fight creditors and credit reporting bureaus for YEARS to prove that they are NOT the people who perpetrated fraud and STOLE.

I have expressed my views on criminals before and do not share much sympathy for them. For those ex-cons who are actively trying to turn their lives around, I will do what I can to help them, but most prefer their lives of crime and quickly revert to them. Those who cannot abide by the laws of the land, DO NOT DESERVE TO ENJOY THEIR FREEDOM. Frankly, I consider most prisons to be too nice and part of the problem with prison and the recidivism rate. When prisons are less Club Fed and more like prison should be (a place one shouldn't want to go to; much less return to) crime and the prison population will begin to fall naturally.

Also, we must begin to emphasize personal responsibility and respect for others as examples of good citizenship. As long as the liberal ideal of group identity and pity for those who had tough times and "just don't know any better" prevails (give me a freakin' break), crime and the prison population will continue to rise.

This crappy article and the prisoners it attempts to solicit tears for are part of the reason that those of us who obey the laws live in fear behind locked doors - the very locked doors that the criminals are supposed to live behind.