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Thread ID: 121745	2011-11-10 17:13:00	Moving Out Of Lotus-Land A Little Easier Now ------	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1242879	2011-11-10 17:13:00	I've seen nonsense and idiocy and bureaucracy and any/all combinations of them in no particular order - but this is just nuts::: Riverside County, California To Charge Prisoners $142 Per Day Of Their Stay In Riverside County California Prison The Huffington Post Jillian Berman First Posted: 11/10/11 10:22 AM ET Updated: 11/10/11 10:22 AM ET Buzz Words: Prison , State Budget Cuts, Video, Business News, Riverside County, Prison-Cuts, Riverside County California Prison, Riverside-County-California, State Prison, The California Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation, Business News share this story In one southern California county, prisoners will soon have to pay for the privilege of staying in jail . Riverside County, California will start charging prisoners $142 . 42 per day of their prison stay, CNNMoney reports . The county's board of supervisors approved the measure on Tuesday as a way to save an estimated $3 to $5 million per year . Not every prisoner will be forced to pay up, however . The county will review each prisoner's case individually to determine if they can afford the fee . The fee comes as the California correctional system continues to struggle with budget woes . Last month, in an effort to save money, the state transferred responsibility for lower-level drug offenders, thieves and other convicts to counties . The "prison realignment" is one of many measures the state has taken in recent years to close its budget gap . The California Supreme Court is considering this week whether the state broke the law when it used re-development funds to close a shortfall a few years ago, according to the Wall Street Journal . But at some prisons, there still may be room for cost cuts . A California prison nurse was paid a salary of $269,810 in 2010 after working thousands of hours in overtime . Indeed, the five highest-paid California state employees all work in the prison system, according to LA Weekly . Didya-ever see such lunacy? The biggest problem is that they don't execute the murders and rapists . That would tend to keep the population a little lower I think if the rule was: "Prisoners check in - but don't check out' . More lunacy - this time in Pennsylvania State University (notice I didn't say: "Pennsylvania State Football Team & University)::: 'Joe Paterno Fired: Penn State Football Coach Removed By Board Of Trustees After Scandal' . OK - a brief cap on this::: A football coach (Sandusky) was raping ten-year old boys for years and never got his acts reported to the police (required by law) by one of the coaches who saw him (Paterno) and then he (Sandusky) got caught and eventually the board of university regents decided the heat was too much and canned him . (NZ= fired) . The firing of Paterno set off student riots and crowds protesting that he wasn't a bad guy, albeit he failed to report multiple children being molested . One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials who also knew the allegations didn't go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower . Paterno says he should have done more . Spanier has said he was not told the details of the attack . Sandusky has denied the charges . Earlier in the day, Paterno said in a statement he was "absolutely devastated" by the case, in which Sandusky, his onetime heir apparent was charged with molesting eight boys in 15 years, with some of the alleged abuse taking place at the Penn State football complex . The tally? Raped kids, a coach gets fired (finally) and an assistant coach gets fired for not reporting it to the police and students riot to protest the tossing of the coaching staff at the university . What about the kids who got raped? Burning cars and breaking windows to protest a pedophile's being fired isn't on the curricula in Penn University - or is it?	SurferJoe46 (51)
1242880	2011-11-10 18:22:00	Presumably prisoners of lower fiscal status will get longer sentences to penalise them for failing to pay the rent. If that doesn't straighten them up, they should be thrown out on the street. Another point of difference between NZ and USA is the lenient treatment given to coaches in your neck of the woods. Here, that level of tolerance is apparently reserved for comedians. Senior coaches are totally incapable of being guilty of anything. However,if their team slips, then they are universally guilty of everything from littering to genocide and may well get a severe slap with a soggy bus ticket.	R2x1 (4628)
1242881	2011-11-10 18:48:00	Sports and the players have taken on godlike qualities and worshipped. That's just sick, as they are paid tremendously inflated amounts of money for in many cases being a freak of nature (height, weight, ability to run or jump) and given all sorts of perks, freebees and houses, cars, aircraft just to play a sport when people are hungry, cops are getting laid-off for lack of funding and yet the beer swilling population cheers their heroes on while the fans slowly starve to death and have their homes foreclosed. The billions of dollars spent each month for professional athletes is astounding. I bet it would qualify as a world power with the money that moves in those tight circles. It's just warped.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1242882	2011-11-10 23:39:00	Sports and the players have taken on godlike qualities and worshipped . That's just sick, as they are paid tremendously inflated amounts of money for in many cases being a freak of nature (height, weight, ability to run or jump) and given all sorts of perks, freebees and houses, cars, aircraft just to play a sport when people are hungry, cops are getting laid-off for lack of funding and yet the beer swilling population cheers their heroes on while the fans slowly starve to death and have their homes foreclosed . The billions of dollars spent each month for professional athletes is astounding . I bet it would qualify as a world power with the money that moves in those tight circles . It's just warped . Quite agree it is sick . You have to remember that most of them have a short career and because they lack a bit up top they need lots of money :D but I bet you by the time coaches etc . have taken their cut that they don't really end up with that much . It is as sick as the amount of money spent on the Presidential elections over there and now the general elections here . What a waste of money because they are all a bunch of tossers .	mikebartnz (21)
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