Seems pretty variable from day to day. I'm leaning towards 35 year old autist where I was leaning towards 19 year old freshman the other day.

You worked for a government union, in a government facility. A facility that, assuming the PRIVATELY SOURCED funding could be found, could easily implement reformation programs for convicts. Did I ever ONCE claim that tax payer monies could be diverted to changing even one single prison? Please, did I?

Your knowledge of working in a government union and a government facility is certainly higher than mine. I don't work for the government, and probably wouldn't even if they asked me to. And I'm 100% opposed to government workers unions, because, "I'm going to strike and refuse to do what taxpayers are paying me to do unless they meet my demands" for workers who already receive better benefits than 95% of the private market is just complete bullshit. So don't come at me as some great source of knowledge about unions when you've never worked in a real one.

You've said what you've done. And what you've done has nothing to do with free market unions. What you've done has nothing to do with employer-based trade work or contracting work. You claim knowledge and experience you do not have, and attempt to use it to derail a suggestion that is neither new nor unique, and HAS BEEN PUT IN PRACTICE in a few county prisons, and has been WILDLY successful, with inmates who go through the vocational programs typically being hired to a job immediately PRIOR to being released from their sentence. In many cases, for lighter and even some drug-related sentences, work-releases are even arranged once vocational training is complete, so that the prisoner can start earning, and re-acclimating to productive life while still under a highly-guarded and answerable atmosphere.

The bottom line is you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

i didnt work for a government union.

your rants are just you talking about shit u dont have any clue on while strawmanning me. i never claimed training wont help convicts get jobs, i said from experience that the training that would actually help wont be paid for.

but take another shot and keep knocking down strawmen with zero experience in this field kid. that'll show me.

'4-5 shots fired from a house in st paul'

ye I think they might have started getting too close to the hmong neighborhoods

Do you have anything else to say that's useful? Or just, "prisoners are a problem because the system's fucked and nothing will work"?

This police scanner is wild. A crowd of 100+ planning to take a store, say they don't care what happens to them.

Seems like it's getting more intense, not less.

a better question would be is there anything that i can say that will change your mind? no, you're defensive, likely day drunk, ignorant of a number of topics you speak authoritatively on, and generally just annoying.

i tried to work and change the system for a long time, made some gain, lots of disappointments, so i left. still in contact with plenty of people and i still do volunteering work a few times a year if i can.

you're an angry alcoholic couch potato. i actually get convicts hired at my company by personally vouching for them and training them, mostly unpaid in my free time. ive worked hard to get a reputation good enough in a company that ive gotten 4 excons a job they otherwise wouldnt have even gotten through the application process on. and i hope to do the same for dozens more. i also work with organizations setting up gardening projects in poor communities.

one last thing before i block your belligerent annoying ass, fuck you. drink a whole bottle tonight and do the world a favor you armchair failure of a human.



This post was edited by thesnipa on May 28 2020 12:16pm

I used to live off of Minnehaha Ave E St. Paul aka 7th street going into downtown. Mostly Hmong and Black residents east of 'frog town'. Hwy 94 through Midway area is a hard line between white/black neighborhoods, sometimes 1 or 2 blocks will have HUGE socio-economic contrast. My aunt-n-law lives right on 94 quarter mile from Midway. There is like 1-2 blocks between 'gentrified' white area and black/hmong area north of 94. This is freaky as hell though, normally that area has been home of non-violent crimes as opposed to North Minneapolis.

'male with a crossbow at the busstop at mcdonalds'

Daryl from The Walking Dead finally showed up