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Bernie Sanders praises the government of New York for making its own hand sanitizer, which is made by prison inmates who get paid 65 cents an hour
Wordpress ^ | March 11, 2020 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 03/11/2020 2:33:59 AM PDT by grundle

Bernie Sanders praises the government of New York for making its own hand sanitizer, which is made by prison inmates who get paid 65 cents an hour

Bernie Sanders just said the following:

“I just learned a few moments ago that in New York State the government is doing the right thing. They are manufacturing disinfectant, for hand washing, to make sure that everybody will be able to get the Purell or whatever they need.”

“What they’re saying is, they are telling the manufacturers today to stop the price-gouging. And they’re manufacturing it. And we are prepared to say that to the pharmaceutical industry: stop ripping off the American people.”

Slate just reported the following:

“New York Will Use Prison Labor to Make Hand Sanitizer”

“The incarcerated workers typically make 65 cents an hour”

Bernie Sanders is in favor of using prison labor that makes 65 cents an hour.

This is not the first time that Sanders has praised prison labor that makes horribly low wages. The prison known as “Cuba” makes it illegal for its 11 million inmates to move out of the country, and it pays its doctors only $40 a month. The condition that Cuba forces these doctor-inmates to live under is so horrible that their homes get running water for only one hour per day. Sanders thinks such a system should be a role model for the U.S.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19
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1 posted on 03/11/2020 2:33:59 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Insane, I don’t even want to think what they put into this “sanitizer”.


2 posted on 03/11/2020 2:36:53 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: grundle

Another use for our jailed Illegals problem.


3 posted on 03/11/2020 2:41:05 AM PDT by Does so (...Democrats believe in democracy only when they win the election...)
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To: grundle

The broken clock effect.


4 posted on 03/11/2020 2:42:21 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: grundle

Bloomberg could show these inmates how to farm and make their own bread so Sanders could stand in line for that as well.


5 posted on 03/11/2020 2:47:06 AM PDT by Bernard ("I don't know if that's true:" Schiff said.)
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To: grundle

“Hand sanitizer is a human right!” This will, essentially, be the pay and working model if he ever got power over health care workers from whom their services, he says, are a “basic human right” due everyone else in the world. However, thankfully, this finger wagger will soon be gone from our lives forever.


6 posted on 03/11/2020 2:49:39 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: grundle

Workers in the Soviet Union would get paid a loaf of bread for a whole day’s work at one of their factories.


7 posted on 03/11/2020 2:55:35 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: grundle

effectively “slave labor”...


8 posted on 03/11/2020 3:17:02 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: Telepathic Intruder

That’s absolutely genius!
The sanitizer workers would be paid a loaf of bread for the week and the bread makers will be paid a bottle of sanitizer for their work week!
Why didn’t anybody ever think of this?


9 posted on 03/11/2020 3:35:36 AM PDT by mowowie ( day)
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To: grundle
Two beers apiece for my co-workers.


10 posted on 03/11/2020 3:36:46 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: mowowie

Whatever keeps a worker alive and still working.


11 posted on 03/11/2020 3:39:09 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Veggie Todd
I’m seeing a picture evolve; I’ve noticed that the good governor Cuomo is taking a very visible presence in the Corona Virus problem. Making sanitizer, activating National Guard, etc. Sooo, let’s peel the onion a little bit. The Dems have a problem; it’s obvious the country is not ready for Bernie the Socialist and it’s obvious that Sleepy Joe is no longer ready for prime time if he ever was. So, what’s the Dems to do? Maybe draft a more acceptable candidate? Do I see Cuomo standing over there with his hand up? Lol, I believe I do 🤣😂!!!
12 posted on 03/11/2020 3:49:32 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: snoringbear

Yeah, I can see that, too.


13 posted on 03/11/2020 3:55:05 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: grundle

Is this satire?

I checked to see if it was the Babylon Bee.

It wasn’t.


14 posted on 03/11/2020 4:13:05 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Insane, I don’t even want to think what they put into this “sanitizer”.

I don't SEE MEN doing anything bad here, do you?
15 posted on 03/11/2020 4:14:08 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: snoringbear

What a surprise.


16 posted on 03/11/2020 4:14:26 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Karma_Sherab

LOL! Yep.


17 posted on 03/11/2020 5:02:16 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: grundle

In a jail system the inmates work in the kitchen and cook the food the officers eat, there ya go!


18 posted on 03/11/2020 5:02:27 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: grundle

Under Bernie, EVERYONE would make 65 cents an hour, except for, you know, the really smart important people.


19 posted on 03/11/2020 5:13:10 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: grundle

He dreams of gulags full of slaves!


20 posted on 03/11/2020 5:41:13 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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