I agree with the writing of a die-hard Democratic judge I’ve read, who believes (correctly) that much of the US public would love to see rural work camps for convicted felons, where they’d have to raise their own food and even make their own shelter and clothing, or suffer the consequences.

We have yet to see any real “prison reform,” but once the money crunch hits in the next 10-20 years, just wait and see then. There probably will be changes made in many cases that are intended primarily to reduce costs, nothing else.

According to income tax information released by the White House on Friday, the Cheneys’ adjusted gross income in 2005 was $8,819,006.

The sum was largely the result of Mr. Cheney’s stock options from Halliburton

Right…. So in 2005 most of Cheney’s income was from Halliburton stock options which he claimed in 2001 he no longer had.

In other words, his largess to charity would appear to have come mostly from the US Treasury.

It’s tough to be civilized when there are people being killed in your name, with your money overseas.

And you should behave civilized nonetheless.

Corporate-fascist by Cindy Sheehan’s or Chris’s perspective, though.

Not every post has to elicit substantive debate.

You’re right. Actually, very few even try any more. There is no point, since the empowered lefties around here will just twist everything you say and/or turn it all into snark anyway.

http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=575

In one of the largest sums ever donated to charity by a U.S. public official, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne gave away nearly $7 million last year to help the poor and to medical research.

According to income tax information released by the White House on Friday, the Cheneys’ adjusted gross income in 2005 was $8,819,006.

OK, that 80% of AGI. Care to post your own tax return % ?

It is, in short, a matter of legitimate substantive debate.

Is this like the “global-warming debate?”

The situation for the poor has gotten worse since the trickle down economics of Reagan were introduced. Combine that with reduced social spending as a result from the tax-cuts and you have the recipe for what we are seeing today.

And what are we seeing? Increased inequality, depressed wages, more and more uninsured, massive rates of obesity for the poor.

I think its a hoot! Cheney is the archtypical modern-day Ebeneezer Scrooge, and you know it. He doesn’t have a philanthropic bone in his body- and he and Bush have allowed corporate vultures to pick the bones of the American taxpayer. Corporate welfare has replaced the welfare state.

I don’t think there is any evidence to support Robert’s contention that Dick Cheney thinks that poverty is what the underclass “deserves”. His post is a cheap shot and, as such, is counterproductive.

What makes you think I was talking to you?

Where is your evidence that I am “on the right”?

Where is your evidence that I have posted anything similar to what Robert posted to make it “turnabout”?

Oh, wait. I keep forgetting. Everyone who criticizes a leftist position is, by definition, “on the right”. And anyone who is “on the right” is fair game for everything because they are bad, bad people “on the right” and its just “turnabout” to nail them.