Posted on 02/22/2016 8:54:17 PM PST by morphing libertarian
Perspective: On the heels of a similar program in Richmond, Calif., Washington, D.C.’s D.C. Council authorized funding in January to pay stipends to notorious criminals if they stop committing crimes. Police would identify up to 50 residents likely to violently offend again in 2016 and offer them periodic cash payments plus special training and educational benefits--as long as they stay out of trouble. Officials in Richmond (once overwhelmed by gun deaths) say their program, commenced ten years ago, has produced a 76 percent drop in gun-related crime. [Washington Post, 2-7-2016]
Okay, instead of making golfers play it where it lies, how about we all get a free drop and one stroke’s credit on any hole that your ball ends up in a hazard or out of bounds?
Watch them unionize, and get the right to strike.
“If people want to break the rules, there are consequences.”
In this case breaking the rules results in a paycheck. You will get more criminals this way.
Hence the old adage “some people just need killing.”
How do you pronounce “Danegeld” with a DC accent?
Give them a penny a month and refrain from shooting them in the back of the head - that should be payment enough....
There was a move to unionize prisoners, I think in the 80s. Too many real union officials in risen screwed up the initiative.
JV I missed that one
“Danegeld” was monies paid by Medieval societies to Vikings and other marauders to leave them alone and not pillage.
That’s what I was thinking.
Thanx and Rome and Constantinople to barbarians for a couple hundred years
If I recall correctly the viks showed up outside Istanbul and the head guy took gold out to them to go away
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