[german71]

Originally Posted by djacques

This is exactly right. One piece of the puzzle that doesn't get talked about nearly enough is crime policy. Our corrections budget is incredibly bloated thanks to "tough on crime" policies that are popular with the easily frightened public but which don't make much sense...non-violent offenders ought to be released on tether, not incarcerated. It's common sense, but when people are afraid of some right-wing douchebag, Dirty Harry wannabe claiming they are soft on crime, common sense becomes pretty uncommon.

Great job! Agree 100 percent do not forget the us has 25 percent of the wordls prison population or in other words 1in 4 people incarcerated in the world is right here in the us.
Oh and by the way the whole country is going broke but do agree mi is at the top of the list.