All fleettwood can do is keep repeating the myth, because he can’t provide any proof that it’s true.

No, I don’t. And you haven’t proven that even ONE Oreo was thrown.

Why do you insist that what seems to be a myth is a fact?

fleettwood loves right-wing myths, and loves to insist things happened even when he cannot prove it.

WTF is racist about Popeyes? It’s just damned good food. Far superior to prison grub, I’d bet.

And look at where he went, drove around Wichita for a bit and to McDonalds or Burger king in a Clearly marked truck lol. Almost screaming COME GET ME.

The thing is, I believe that programs to reduce recidivism is a good thing. You’re wrong on the most. There are some that end up being career criminals. But imagine how full our prisons would be if that were really true.

Most who go in as kids, eventually straighten out.

I’m for anything that reduces recidivism, if that’s a religious program, so be it. However there should be no special priviledges for being in those religious programs- which is the case right now.

As crazy at that may seem to you and me, Ben, it’s a fact. The ones that actually learn from the experience, and have no desire to go back, often get out and go on to live productive valuable lives, even with the big “strike” against them of having been there in the first place. They’re are their own success stories, and don’t need Brownback and cohorts’ platitudes to help them. The others ain’t listening, anyway !

Why he picked Angola prison, I’m not quite sure.

There are some things I like about Sam Brownback, but if he gets in to the White House – that will just give the power right back to the religious zealots and we saw how that worked for us the last time.

I agree with him on the issue – we need to find a way to expedite ‘re-entry’ to reduce recidivism.

Employers have been able to verify Social Security Numbers for a long time now and it’s free as long as it’s for a valid business purpose. Point your browser to http://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnv.htm

If employers don’t exercise due diligence then they are liable to victims of identity theft.

Joe, get off this blog!!

Corporations and small businesses have been asking the government for many years to set up a database check on social security numbers so they can check if an employer is using somebody elses social security number. Unfortantly the government is slow to inact this. With the Democrats back in power, I doubt we will see any light of day of this at all. Just a simple streamline online background check. Businesses don’t want to hire illegals.

But Steve! You’re right! Aligning with Ted Kennedy is a kiss of death for Sam.

Some years back the feds hit some packing plants in Nebraska, but took major flack when the owners contacted their political representatives, crying that their businesses were being torpedoed. (”We can’t make a profit except by using illegal labor.) This is why we haven’t seen action since that debacle.

But stopping identity theft will get a lot of public-support that the capitalist employers won’t be able to defeat. A big question is, will ID theft victims be able to sue employers? Civil class actions could conceivably put a stop to illegal hiring by corporations, and force them to hire Americans at decent wages, because unlike the Mrs. Smiths and Joneses who pay their illegal-immigrant maids and gardeners in unrecorded cash transactions, corporations issue paychecks, and this requires SS numbers. If an illegal corporate worker doesn’t have his/her own SS number, he/she is using somebody else’s. It could be yours or mine.