Saving Money by NOT Privatizing
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 9th, 2011 4:47 am by HL
Saving Money by NOT Privatizing
New Sheriff Al Neinhuis of Hernando County, Florida is actually saving the county more than a million and a half dollars just this year, compared to what CCA would have charged to operate the facility. And he’ll do it better.
The new Sheriff of Hernando County, Florida, is continuing in the ways of his predecessor. After Sheriff Nugent uncovered widespread neglect of maintenance at his county jail, which had been run for 22 years by CCA, he took over operations and estimated he could save more than $200,000 per year by operating it as part of the department (which should have been operating it all along).
New Sheriff Al Neinhuis went a step further. He is actually saving the county more than a million and a half dollars just this year, compared to what CCA would have charged to operate the facility. And he’ll do it better.
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Pointing and laughing
We amuse the rest of the world, we’re like a clown to them.
Teapartier sign…via Messay Shoakena at flickr.com
Apparently, the rest of the world pays more attention to our politics than we do…without having to suffer through it…or maybe by this time they just point and laugh?
The social network and dating website Badoo.com asked 30,000 people across 15 countries to name both the “funniest,” or best at making people laugh,” and “the least funny” nationality.
Americans took the funniest prize
And all this before our latest round of Weiner jokes and tea-wrestling.
Apparently, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and our newest “target audience” Yemen were not allowed to participate.
