This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars’ worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece.
But what makes those eye-popping sums even more shocking is that some of the workers manufacturing parts for those Patriot missiles are prisoners, earning as little as 23 cents an hour.
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Make 'em pick up trash on the highway, clean the local parks, shit like that. To take this type of work away from Americans who could make a living wage at it is ridiculous.
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Patriot assemblers Raytheon and Lockheed Martin aren’t the only defense contractors relying on prison help. As Rohrlich notes, Unicor "inmates also make cable assemblies for the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F-15, the General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin F-16, Bell/Textron’s Cobra helicopter, as well as electro-optical equipment for the BAE Systems Bradley Fighting Vehicle’s laser rangefinder."
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How in hell are people supposed to compete when the government encourages using cheap labor in our own country to take away American jobs? If we had 3% unemployment I could understand it but with so many skilled people out of work, this is just a slap in the face.
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