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babylonsister

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Mon Aug 18, 2014, 07:37 PM Aug 2014

Widespread Support for Sending Politicians to Prison for Ninety-Nine Years


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Widespread Support for Sending Politicians to Prison for Ninety-Nine Years


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AUSTIN—Last week’s indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry has sparked widespread bipartisan support for the concept of sending politicians to prison for ninety-nine years.

While Americans are divided about the merits of the specific charges levelled against Perry, there is near-unanimous agreement that imprisoning politicians for ninety-nine years is an idea worth exploring further, a poll released on Monday indicates.

According to the poll, eighty-seven per cent of voters from both parties agreed that sending politicians to prison for such a lengthy period would “solve a lot of problems” and “make the country safer.”

Additionally, when asked to name one politician they would like to see incarcerated for ninety-nine years, voters easily rattled off a dozen or more such candidates, with some voters naming as many as fifty.


Finally, when informed that imprisoning politicians for ninety-nine years might lead to overcrowding that would require the construction of costly new prisons, eighty-three per cent agreed with the statement, “Money is no object.”




















By Andy Borowitz
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/widespread-support-sending-politicians-prison-ninety-nine-years
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Widespread Support for Sending Politicians to Prison for Ninety-Nine Years (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2014 OP
Yeah, but what about the ones with really good genes who might live longer... randys1 Aug 2014 #1
The only way to make this economically feasible Jackpine Radical Aug 2014 #2

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
2. The only way to make this economically feasible
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 07:40 PM
Aug 2014

would be to release all the victimless drug offenders.

Hey, that works for me.

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