gwbush.com: Why do you give so much to political campaigns?
cs: Although we are a private corporation, all of our income comes from federal and local governments. Our corporate structure is technically the exact logical opposite of a tax paying citizen. We are in the business of locking people up. And since right now governments are the only organizations with the power to legally decide who gets locked up and how many people are going to get locked up, we have to make sure we have good communications with the governments.

gwbush.com: Do you find that giving to campaigns meets your business needs?
cs: We feel the current system of elections and campaign financing is pretty clumsy and inefficient. But it's the only one we got, so we make due. It is bothersome that we can only give money to the candidates before the election. In many other countries it is much more logical: you are allowed to give money to the leaders after the election and once they are in office. That is often called a bribe. In America there are sometimes two candidates who have a plausible chance to win the election. In these cases, we must give to both candidates. So that after the election, we can be sure we will have paid the one that wins. This means we have to spend a lot of money on which we see no return ever.

gwbush.com: So you're not happy with the current system?
cs: Although we would favor reform to this system, it has allowed us a tremendous amount of access so far. Our industry helped to write the mandatory sentencing laws that have been responsible for allowing governments to lock up over 1.7 million of our citizens--and plenty of other countries citizens too!

gwbush.com: Wow, that's a lot of people! Does your business model include any other ways of making money off your prisoners? Selling advertising or providing financial services?
cs: We do have one source of non-tax income as well. That is profit on prison labor. Our prison labor industry is larger than Chinas, and we're working hard to make sure they don't catch up. Companies such as TWA, Microsoft, and hundreds of others produce huge amounts of goods in our prisons. This may sound like slavery, as the prisoners get paid only pennies an hour and they really have no choice about working. It sounds like slavery, and it is! One of the most interesting little secrets about the constitution is that it has a special clause on slavery in prisons.

gwbush.com: In this age of globalization are you branching out into other markets?
cs: Frankly, even we were surprised by the number of people the elected officials in the US were willing to lock up. We don't think any other market would be as favorable to our industry so we have remained primarily domestic. The numbers have far surpassed our wildest expectations. We'd also like to thank the Left, the Labor Movement, and other social movements and organizations for failing to organize effectively against all this stuff.