Krugman gets to the heart of the matter. Again

[will]

This time following the money while anayzing privatized prisons. Private, for-profit prisons are a spectacularly bad idea and chock full of perverse incentives. Even a cursory glance at the idea makes this perfectly clear. But, when somebody like Chris Christie is a former lobbyist for a private prison operator, then bad ideas have a way of turning into policy. Same thing happens when Texas sherriffs trade prisoners for the purposes of enhancing their parochial budgets. Cupidity and power make for corruption. Who woulda guessed?

www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/opinion/krugman-prisons-privatization-patronage.html?_r=1

[kitkat]

Yeh I saw that...corruption incarnate 4 sure.

[baldrick]

The problem is how to stop it, short of armed insurrection and kangaroo courts, a la Ze French Revolution...

[john]

The for profit prison system is a joke. What we wind up with are companies with unprecedented access to power, bending the rules to make our legal system a predatory gatherer of human cattle. The fact that they can lobby at all is a joke.

[will]

Different subject, same Krugman.

krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/what-you-add-is-what-you-get/

[baldrick]

The Right'll just claim he's a Libgressive Progliberal (thanks, Greg Field!), and dismiss him as a Kommy Suzhulizt... And the morons will buy it, because they think they might be like Romney by "working really hard, and saving."