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• Monday, December 31, 2007 09:32 AM

  He had me fooled for second or two

  When I read that article in Broadsheet on his juvenile workplace environment where his employees act like it's third grade and they're at recess bullying the class geek and teasing the girls, that was it for Bloomberg.

  What a sense of privilege -- to be open about enjoying marijuana and then support the WOD.

  And Bloomberg can count. He knows how to count money. He should realize the WOD is a giant money-sucking hole in our economy.

  In Calfornia now the prisoners are catching some deadly fungus in the Central Valley soil. The prisoners don't grow up breathing Valley dust, so they have zero immunity and they get very, very sick and it costs the state millions of dollars to send them to decent hospitals where they can be treated.

  If we have a recession -- how in the hell are we going to afford to take care of all those prisoners?

  It's really expensive when a prisoner gets sick.

  You'd think someone with math ability like Bloomberg could do that math.

  We have too many prisoners to take care of, and the WOD is to blame for that.

  When we have a recession, and governments starts getting desperate for money, choices will have to be made.

  In California it's already pretty bad. The prison budget is growing, growing, growing and the state budget is shrinking, shrinking, shrinking.

  You'd think someone like Bloomberg would be able to do that math.

  Arnold can do the math. The column adds up to this: we're going to have to start being a lot more lenient with nonviolent offenders.

  —Silenced Read Silenced's other letters
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