America has all the tools to solve its problems, but doesn’t

know how to use them.

For example, factories are built overseas where wages are

lower. Why not build factories in our prisons, where wages

can be just as low as those paid overseas?

Think of it, a factory making toys could be set up in a

prison where one has no problem with getting the workers

to their posts, producing goods which are constantly

subject to safety checks, and where the transportation costs

from factory to warehouse would be far lower.

The prison inmates would offset the cost of their

incarceration, gain a few legal dollars, and more

importantly, skills.

They would learn how to operate in a work setting,

and as they became more adept, could be moved up

to management.

All the reasons why American companies should go overseas

have been dispensed with, all the reasons that the business

should remain have been emphasized.

Agriculture is another area which begs for the utilization

of Prisoners. Instead of having so many unfilled jobs which

provokes illegal immigration, gangs of prisoners could be

brought in, thus solving the food crisis.

The problem is in creative thinking, not in any logistics.

Convict Labor built parts of America; worked on farms,

roads, in mines; the reason this was abandoned was because

citizens needed the jobs.

As citizens of America are not doing these jobs, there can

be no outcry.

Imagine the fields in California being planted and reaped

by prisoners, meaning there were no jobs for Mexican

immigrants. Once there are no jobs, there is no reason

to cross the border.

China has become extremely wealthy by taking jobs from

Americans. The process is simple; have a big American

Company open a manufacturing plant, train local workers,

go on for a few years, then when the Chinese are ready,

dispatch the Americans, take over the factory, slap a

new name on the goods, and sell them cheaper than the

Americans did.

The American company might make a profit for a few years,

but then, once the Chinese take the factory, it will not

merely be loss, it will be put out of business.

Simply put if American Name Brand sells for $1000 and the

Chinese company which took over that American Name Brand

is producing the exact same thing with a Chinese Name and

selling it for $700, which would you buy?

If instead of going to China, the American Name Brand builds

a factory in the Prison, and prisoners are producing the

goods, then one can buy an American Name Brand for $650.

There is no downside.