Private Prison Profiteering
(ALEC secretly lobbying and buying state legislators)

Did you get what you voted for? Probably not.
Did your candidate hint that he's part of a plan
To implement ALEC's far right agenda
That is far more extreme than an Afghan Taliban.

It's as dictatorial about what you can't do.
You'll find ALEC pro-business and anti-consumer.
They play to wherever they get the most funding,
Like from private prisons - And you thought baby boomer?

Corporations now own and run what once were state prisons,
But only make money when they're chock-a-block full.
Why'd Arizona's immigration law pass?
ALEC did a lot more than just shoot the bull.

The Corrections Corporation paid thousands to ALEC
To help draft Arizona's bill to detain
And fill its private prisons with illegal immigrants
So taxpayer mony could fund corporate gain.

ALEC's "sentencing" bills have meant longer jail terms
And even more millions for huge CCA.
But Paul Ryan's vouchers for Medicare scare them.
Reducing cell co-pays with vouchers? Can lifers pay?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
On Twitter @PBoondoggles
5/24/11

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5/24/11