“HB 211 is a debt trap. It creates a population of people who are, by definition, unable to pay. And then converts that inability into a labor obligation,” Michael Ryan, a finance expert and founder of MichaelRyanMoney.com, told Newsweek. “The ‘streets to success’ framing is deliberate misdirection. No legitimate treatment program requires the patient to work off their bill under threat of incarceration."
I’m morbidly fascinated by how carefully this article avoids using the obvious term. But slavery. It’s slavery. It is a bill that would literally, legally, enslave a population (of predominantly Black men, fucking surprise) for the “crime” of being poor.
Ah, back to 17hundreds UK, which their forebears escaped from.
Nah the pilgrims were their own brand of shit leaving multiple places they were perfectly welcome (including the UK itself) and allowed to practice their religion but kept leaving anyway because they weren’t allowed to enforce their beliefs on others. This is the US going back to how it was founded.
More like peeling of the layers they tried to hide from everyone else
Four bears have escaped 1700s UK?
Where are they now?
One of them just lost its job at the Parks department
Louisiana is fast tracking classic American slavery
I guess the golden age wasn’t great enough?
Maybe we can uno-reverso this shit, and end up with a bunch of MAGA people picking fruit for free?
Enslave the slavers? No thanks. They must be hanged and fed to the crows. Which is what they should have done with every slave owner or confederate general back then.
Every chance they get, they prove they are NAZIs
this is 18th century english shit
Some fits that.
All of it in context is what the Nazis did:
First the immigrants,
Then, the homeless.
Next, will be the disabled. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-war-on-disability/
After that will be the LGBT community.
This is apart from all of the other action LA that follow including destroying the country and it’s institutions after purging the military and creating his own storm troopers
We’re one potato famine away from losing half our Irish population.
That’s going to be a lot of people considering half of America calls themself “Irish”
No need to look to Europe here. This is the black codes.
You mean the current prison system in the South, but expanded so that anyone without the ability to pay rent is a criminal? Yes, but call it slavery 3.0. The guys doing 20 years on chain gangs for pot possession would be slavery 2.0, which started basically as soon as OG slavery was made illegal. It’s never gone away. Rebranded.
They already do this with teachers lol. Most work 2-3 hours unpaid every day. And no, they pay themselves over the summer and breaks because their check is stipend, they don’t get “free money m” on breaks and summer.
Ohh looky not enough prisons now, remind me, who pays for those?
Oh workhouses are back? Greaaaat
“Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge.
“Plenty of prisons,” said the gentleman.“And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?”
“They are. Still,” returned the gentleman, “I wish I could say they were not.”
“Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.”“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
Who would have thought we would be living in a techno Dickens world. Just without the neon.
Looks like they are bringing slavery back. When do we guillotine these despots? This is pure evil.
Meanwhile, the Republicans can’t figure out why everyone hates them and why a lot of people cheer whenever someone takes a shot at the PedoPrez.
Wow, this is exactly what the British used to do back in the day. Absolutely barbaric.
Louisiana: how can we make slavery even slaverier?
Unpaid labor?
You mean slavery?
No you don’t understand, they are paid in room and board, therefore they are earning a “living wage”. Suck it libs!
/s
If we’re going backwards in history, then I guess the next move is to count each one as only 3/5ths of a person.
Which sounds like a perfectly republican idea for “reducing” the prison population numbers.
Why count them at all?
To get more congressional seats, of course
and to have an other to continually focus the tribal hatred on.
I imagine this is mainly being pushed by the people of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. There’s a bridge near the French Quarter where hundreds of homeless people congregate. People wouldn’t mind, but the panhandling and open crack use looks bad in a city dependent of tourism.
The most interesting aspect of this area-in my opinion-is the army of 10 year olds selling crack on their bicycles. They keep it under their tongue and swallow it if they are robbed or stopped by a police officer.
…this is one of the least offensive aspects of this community. Between the lack of education and widespread acceptance of statutory rape, it’s hard to understand how people could live like this. People from up north don’t understand how bad it is. Forcefully removing these kids from their parents is probably the only way to break the cycle of abuse.
I live in New Orleans. I pass by those homeless encampments all the time. They are largely separated from populated areas. No one I know cares that they are there.
This bill was written by a Republican from two towns over. That’s who cares. New Orleans is the target of state Republican policies over and over. We are a den of sin filled with people of color, never mind that we fund just about everything in this otherwise miserable state
I could see this coming back. Five bucks to sleep on a clothesline, and avoid the workhouse. Looks like a growth business model
UberHang
Given the history of the image, I prefer HangUber
With surge pricing, we can keep piling debt onto the slaves.
Doesn’t the US have more and more failed states?
Louisiana is already the actual worst in a lot of metrics.
Mississippi manages to consistently undercut the rest of the nation, with states like South Dakota, West Virginia, and Alaska running tight behind.
But a lot of that is relative. You can live in a big rich blue state - like New Jersey or California - and still be confined to a miserable ghetto or desolate rural backwater by the racist policies of the ostensibly liberal state leadership. States love to concentrate wealth inside certain high profile urban and wealthy suburban enclaves, then gate these locations off with high rents and transit costs.
What you have in the Gulf Coast is this policy split between states. So Florida and Texas aggregate enormous amounts of wealth. Then they outsource the dirties and most miserable aspects of the shipping/refining industry to the middle states - Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. By contrast, you’ve got cities like Vernon in California and Eugene-Springfield in Oregon and Akron in Ohio that do this kind of dumping in-house.
