Florida County Looks At Using Inmates To Maintain Foreclosures
U.S. News & World Report’s Luke Mullins recently came across a story of how one Florida county intends to maintain its glut of foreclosed properties. Mullins wrote back on August 15:
You think living next to that abandoned house with waist-high grass is unsettling? Just wait until the prisoners start showing up…
From The Suncoast News, in Florida:
Pasco County officials will ask for permission to use county jail inmates to help clean and mow lots of foreclosed homes that have fallen into disrepair.
“We’ve got to get in front of this,” Commissioner Michael Cox said today [August 12] in bringing up the issue. “Last I heard there were 6,000 homes in foreclosure” in Pasco, he said…
And the prisoners? Well, they should at least be glad they’re not being made to perform Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
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“County Wants Prisoners to Primp Foreclosures”
Luke Mullins
U.S. News & World Report, August 15, 2008
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:31 am
This is exactly the kind of mindless stupidity that leads to an ever-expanding spiral of economic destruction. First they lock you up for smoking an herb, at the expense of the taxpayer (who has an apparently inexhaustible supply of money). Then they decide it might be a good idea to save some of that money by putting the evil devil-weed smoking felon to work maintaining foreclosed homes. But, the only problem is that now these criminals have knowledge of where a bunch of foreclosed homes are. And surprise surprise, 2 months later the house is stripped of all its copper… CLAP CLAP CLAP. So brilliant. You’ve just destroyed millions of dollars in real estate in the process of saving the taxpayer a few grand. Joy! Hey, if you want to save the taxpayer some money, then end this rediculous war on drugs now, before the country is fully bankrupted. Watch American Drug War now on google video.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 am
Somewhere in this I see the potential for a hilarious comedy scene. While the guy in the orange jumpsuit pushes a lawnmower through the waist-high grass and the snakes slither across the sidewalk to get away from it, the camera pans to the background where you see prople carrying appliances, granite countertops, and copper pipe out the front door. And then the camera zooms in on the guy with the mower, the noise fades out, and with a grin he says, “Prisoner labor - it’s not just license plates anymore!”
-Mammoth
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Thanks for the comment Iconoclast421.
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Thanks for sharing that dark humor with us Mammoth. Sounds like everyone’s concerned about the inmates. But hey, how about their handlers?
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