Jails and Nursing Homes, Prisoners and
Senior Citizens,
Or,
HOW CRAZY IS IT
On a sick humorous note, here's the
way it could be. Suppose today we reversed things, and put all our
senior citizens in jail, and all the
criminals in nursing homes.
At first this sounds like a horrible idea and a terrible thing to say, but look
what happens in today’s upside-down world of very-real
progressive-political-insanity.
All of our Seniors would immediately have access to free room
and board, showers, hobbies and walks.
They would receive unlimited
free prescriptions for medicine and treatments, dental and surgical, wheel
chairs, etc. They would receive money instead of having
to pay it out. They would have constant video monitoring,
so they would be helped instantly if they fell or needed assistance. Bedding
would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be washed, ironed and
returned to them. A nurse-maid (guard) would check on them
every 20 minutes and all
meals and snacks would be brought to them in their rooms. They would have
family visits in a suite built for just that purpose for them.
They would have
access to magazine prescriptions, a library, weight room, fitness equipment,
spiritual counseling, a pool, and equivalency or on-going adult education
services, and free admission to in-house concerts by nationally recognized
entertainment artists. Simple
clothing – i.e., shoes, slippers, pj's - and legal aid would be
free, upon request. There would be private, secure rooms
provided for all with an outdoor exercise yard complete with gardens. Each senior would have a P.C., T.V., phone
and radio in their room at no cost.
If they wanted one, they would all be given “jobs”. They
would receive daily phone calls. There would be a board of directors to hear
any complaints, and the ACLU would fight for their rights and protection. The guards would have a code of conduct to be
strictly adhered to, with attorneys available, at no charge to them, to protect
the seniors and their families from abuse or neglect.
As for
the criminals in the nursing homes:
They would receive cold cheap food served at irregular hours.
They would be left alone and
unsupervised, locked in a small room without
windows, tied to their beds for hours at a time, especially at night.
They would sleep in their own urine and feces, unless someone happened to
show up at three in the morning to let them up.
They would receive (cold?) pressure-less showers once a week.
They would live in tiny rooms, for
which they would have to pay $5,000 per month, and share with an insane person
who stole their stuff.
They would have little or no chance,
or even hope, of ever getting out alive.
And they would remain forgotten and
uncared for till the day they died!
Now, if that “Sounds like justice” to you, you might just be a conservative, or at
least a Tea-Party Libertarian,
after all!
So,
HOW
CRAZY IS IT GETTING