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Utah’s 1,300-bed complex advances under federal incentives favoring institutionalization and compelled treatment. The campus will establish the first model, with similar facilities to follow across the United States.That sounds about half a step off of a forced labor camp. There were a couple guys in the engineering department, at the company where I worked in the late 70s, who were immigrants from Latvia. During the war they had been in a Nazi forced labor camp.
Here's another great example:
By the 1930s, the USSR declared the abolition of homelessness and every citizen was obliged to have a propiska – a place of permanent residency. Nobody could be stripped of propiska without substitution or refuse it without a confirmed permission (called "order") to register in another place. en.wikipedia.org - Homelessness in RussiaOf course, providing free apartments would be Communistical. Can't have that in Shinyland, where everything must be rationed by ability to pay. If people can't pay cash, I'm sure the value will be extracted from them in other ways.
A congressman from Michigan has talked about when he first immigrated. He worked as a janitor, and lived in his car.
Steve
