1371 Out Wedding

One of the big items in the gossip news recently was the wedding of Russell Brand and Katy Perry. I wish them the best. Marriages are hard enough; in the pressure cooker of pop culture, even more so.
But what was interesting about their marriage was they chose to have the actual ceremony in India. Amazing, I thought. Are we outsourcing our celebrity weddings now too?
Why there? Are the paparazzi here that much fiercer than India? Did they both have a Maharishi Yogi Beatles fetish? Wasn’t there a local place they could have spent all that money?
Or maybe it was a language issue. He was from England, she was from the United States. Maybe they wanted a neutral English speaking country.
But the whole thing did bring the outsourcing thing back to mind. We are used to outsourcing our manufactured goods. Even our computer troubleshooting services. But our major life experiences?
Here’s some outsourcing maybe we should consider. I was reading an article the other day about communities bidding to get federal prisons. Heads in beds for motels as visitors came. Construction and maintenance jobs for the facility. And most importantly steady high-paid employment for the local folks.
All at taxpayer expense.
Maybe we could cut that cost down. Outsource our federal prisons. The CIA already apparently has a network of secret interview facilities. Perhaps bring those out in the open.
It’s gotta be a lot cheaper to ship a three-times-you’re-outer all the way out. And feed and clothe him or her where our current local prisoner standard of living would be considered the height of luxury.
I hate shipping jobs overseas. But when the overseers work so cheap...
And we do have such a big deficit...
America, ya gotta love it.