INCARCERATION RATES PER 100,000
Netherlands 49
Ireland 62
Finland 65
Denmark 66
Sweden 69
Belgium 71
Germany 80
Italy 80
France 84
Switzerland 85
Austria 88
Spain 90
Australia 91
England 93
Canada 116
USA 519
So why does the U.S. have five to ten times the incarceration rate as the rest of the Industrialized world?
Well, let's look at how we differ from all those scummy other places we're "better" than:
We are the most Christian.
We are the least Agnostic.
We are the most conservative.
We are the least socialist.
We execute the most people.
We have the least gun controls..
We pay the least taxes.
We have the harshest drug laws.
We have the longest sentences.
And we give less of a toejam than just about anywhere.
Conservatives would have us believe that the blame for having the highest crime rate in the industrialized world -- and probably the non-industrialized world as well -- is because of welfare, gun controls, not long enough sentences, too few executions, not enough jails, not smacking our children around hard or often enough and of course, not having enough Jesus shoved down our throats.
Well excuse me! All those awful other countries who suffer far less crime have more welfare, more gun controls, shorter sentences, no executions, less jails, do not hit their children as much as we and have far less God being jammed down their throats.
Every argument conservatives use is a straw man bypassing the basic underlying truth of their entire ideology.
That the selfish callous disregard endemic to both their politics and personalities is the central problem to our moral decay
.Hope all you
"conservatives" have a nice day!
