BREAKING: Baucus Bill to institute debtor's prisons for those unable to pay insurance premiums

[ddeclue]

or medical bills.

Those unable to pay will be leased to the Prison Corporation of America to work in their factories until such time as their debt has been worked off* at special sub-minimum wage prison labor rates.

*Room, board, clothing and laundry expenses will be deducted from wages earned while incarcerated.

:sarcasm:

Maybe not - but how long until they include THIS provision in order to win over Republican Senate votes in the name of "compromise"?

:eyes:

[The Magistrate]

1. Do Not Go Giving Them Ideas, Sir....

Satire has become a very dangerous pursuit; you can not anymore say something so outrageous you can count on not seeing it in tomorrow's headlines.

[ddeclue]

2. No doubt true...

:cry:

[Bicoastal]

3. Delete

delete

[The Magistrate]

10. Long Forgotten, Sir: No Worries

[anonymous171]

8. Agreed.

These are crazy times we live in. A hundred years ago the workers dreamt of a workers paradise. Now the masters are busy implementing their own paradise, right here on our front steps.

[sakabatou]

4. Holy fuck...

Congress must not let this pass.

[grahamhgreen]

12. Now we're forced to fight our own party!

[sakabatou]

15. Baccus is in to deep in the insurance industry

[earcandle]

5. They are already arresting people for nothing to get that cheap labor for years now.

But to make people go there because they have no money to pay
for insurance is duplicious and stupid.

Don't you know they are cutting budgets in prisons, mr bacchus
bill?...... are you not paying attention? 

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. Bacchus is a GOP representative from Florida. n/t

[ddeclue]

9. and Baucus is apparently the Republican Senator from Montana..

given how he acts - it's no wonder I confused the spelling...

[Libertas1776]

7. I always

knew Rethugs had a hard on for bleak, Dickensian English societal structure. Hell, I figured it was there blueprint.

[grahamhgreen]

11. Great idea - WE GET HEALTH CARE IN PRISON!

:sarcasm:

[ddeclue]

13. that will get added to your sentence..

:rofl:

[grahamhgreen]

14. ROFL!!!!!

[excess_3]

16. felony or misdemeaner? .nt

[ddeclue]

18. Inpatient or outpatient?

:rofl:

[mzmolly]

17. Perhaps we can bring back indentured servitude?

:think:

[obliviously]

19. You don't get insurance

you pay a fine . You can't pay the fine the IRS comes after you. Prison a joke? I don't think so!

[cutlassmama]

21. Obviously. n/t

[SoCalDem]

20. BUT.. while incarcerated, they will have "free" medical & dental

and can attend college classes free, as well

:rofl: