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TheBlackAdder

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9. Conveniently going to prisons, probably their privately owned ones.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Dec 26, 2020, 05:36 AM

Dec 2020

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It's like the NJ lottery saying that the money goes to Higher Education and other institutions, when most of it goes to the prisons. Prisons - The Other Institution.

People buy tickets thinking, well it's helping out colleges. Nope.

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PA misses deadline to spend $108M in rent, mortgage relief from CARES Act (it goes to prisons now) [View all] Celerity Dec 2020 OP

Once again - the Republicans... oh never mind. You know the rest. Marie Marie Dec 2020 #1

This is a fuckup that we own too Amishman Dec 2020 #11

You are right but this is the paragraph that caught my eye: Marie Marie Dec 2020 #12

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They do it because they not only get away with it, but they are rewarded by the Rethug/MAGAt base Celerity Dec 2020 #3

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The Rethugs control both the PA House and the PA Senate with clear majorities. Celerity Dec 2020 #7

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Another example of why direct payments are better MoonlitKnight Dec 2020 #4

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Conveniently going to prisons, probably their privately owned ones. TheBlackAdder Dec 2020 #9

How Republican party is that, to take from the poor, and give to the jailers? Roisin Ni Fiachra Dec 2020 #10

Contacted my Republican state rep about a related DeminPennswoods Dec 2020 #13