Posted on 03/12/2020 3:14:38 AM PDT by grundle
Yesterday, I wrote this blog post, which is called “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.”
Today I have some additional information that Sanders also failed to mention.
The New York Times just reported that this government-manufactured hand-sanitizer
“by law, can only be sold to state and local government agencies, schools, police departments and some nonprofit organizations.”
So it’s not being made available to the general public.
Only people with the right connections will be able to get it.
This is typical of how things worked in the Soviet Union.
This is not the first time that Sanders has spoken out in favor of the government doing things like this.
Sanders once said the following:
“You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers”
Sanders also once said that it was a “good thing” when people have to wait in line for food.
These are Sanders’s exact words:
“It’s funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, cause people are lining up for food. That’s a good thing! In other countries people don’t line up for food: the rich get the food and the poor starve to death.”
You can see and hear Sanders saying those words in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBjjP8WSbc
But in the real world, it’s not a “good thing” when people have to wait in line for food.
In May 2017, the Washington Post reported:
“In a recent survey of 6,500 Venezuelan families by the country’s leading universities, three-quarters of adults said they lost weight in 2016 — an average of 19 pounds… a level of hunger almost unheard-of outside war zones or areas ravaged by hurricane, drought or plague.”
Then in February 2018, Reuters reported:
“Venezuelans reported losing on average 11 kilograms (24 lbs) in body weight last year… according to a new university study…”
That’s 43 pounds in two years.
Here’s a photograph from 2014 of people in Venezuela waiting in line for food: (posted here under fair use from http://www.businessinsider.com/long-food-lines-are-in-venezuela-2014-2 )
You can read all about how this came to be in this blog post that I wrote.
Sanders also said:
“I favor the public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries.”
CNN reported that Sanders was in favor of nationalizing
“the energy industry, public ownership of banks, telephone, electric, and drug companies and of the major means of production such as factories and capital”
So here’s what we know about Sanders, based on his own words:
1) He wants the government to take ownership of major industries.
2) He wants people to have to wait in line for food.
3) He wants people to have fewer choices when it comes to consumer goods.
4) He supports a system where the general population does not have access to certain consumer goods, and only people with the right connections can get them.
5) He supports a system that uses prison labor to manufacture consumer goods.
6) He supports a system that pays these prison workers only 65 cents an hour.
Soviets had a long history of convict labor in their Gulags.
Socialist dreamer a##wipe
I’ll use soap and water: not prison-spit sanitizer.
Communism is all about “having the right connections.”
“sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, cause people are lining up for food. That’s a good thing!”
Yep that’s what a man that’s never held a real job in his life would say. Just like the rest of ‘em...completely out of touch with real Americans.
I wonder if the prisoner sanitizer has the full 60% alcohol the CDC recommends, or if they drank it...
The government has the power to incarcerate. Now government employees have the power to receive benefits from those they incarcerate. Normal citizens cannot receive those benefits. Government employees are a protected class. Can't fire them no matter how poorly they perform.
The government has the power to enslave you. In fact, a good four plus months of your labor per year already goes to government. When will it be 12 months?
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3823812/posts?page=1#1
“The New York Times just reported that this government-manufactured hand-sanitizer
“by law, can only be sold to state and local government agencies, schools, police departments and some nonprofit organizations.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/nyregion/coronavirus-newyork-sanitizer.html
Ping!!!
He’s a communist.
LIBERALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both cows, slaughters them for their own food,
and taxes you to death for worthless social programs, for having
the animals originally.
PROGRESSIVISM
You have 2 cows.
Progs advocate for advancements in science, technology,
economic development and social organization, but they’re so full
of bullshit, nothing ever changes.
You still have 2 cows.
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State forces you to give one to your neighbor, shoots the neighbor
and forces you to milk them both, giving all milk back to the state.
The State gives you a cup of sour milk.
LEFTISM
You have 2 cows.
The State terrrorizes the animals until they can’t produce milk,
beats you and your wife to death, and puts your daughters & sons
into the Pedophile Nation, for the Epsteins, Weiners, Clintons etc.
MARXISM
You have 2 cows.
The government takes both and tosses you into a hog pen, where you’re
devoured and never found.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you nothing.
They shoot your family and put you in a gulag.
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, promises more free cows, lets you vote and gives you sour milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots your wife and kids.
ANARCHISM
You have 2 cows.
The State shoots the cows, you and your family.
CRONY CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
The State takes both, milks, slaughters them, and makes a tidy profit from the sale
of choice meat cuts and fresh milk.
You get some lousy hamburger and a jar of sour milk.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, hires a sub-contractor to milk the other, and then throws the milk away.
CONTEMPORARY WALL STREETISM
You have two cows.
You sell one, bundle the other with a goat, a mule,
and two dry cows.
You pile into the derivatives market, buy a Gulfstream
and when it all comes down around your ears...
You go to the government for a bailout.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
Only state government people will be able to get it and the tax payers will foot the bill.
Good point.
Especially if the prison labor knows this stuff is going to the politicians.
And the po po.
Let me guess...the govt is paying $100 a gallon for this stuff, through distributors with hasty no- bid contracts obtained by connections.
Contracts going to diverse suppliers
like De Blasio’s corrupt wife Chirlaine using some of her $900 million taxpayer funds to buy and resell for a profit
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Comrade Grundle. You have been summarily convicted for crimes against the state for insulting Big Bernie. Report immediately to the People's Reeducational Hand Sanitizer Factory #97.
Fuel ethanol plants make an almost endless supply of 95% or 99+% alcohol. Biodiesel plants make an almost endless supply of glycerine as a byproduct. Probably cost $3 per gallon to make hand sanitizer.
And when demand surges for the new cheaper convict-produced hand sanitizer, well, we’ll just have to get ourselves some more convicts to meet the increased demand.
Ditto.
Heard it's going to be distributed to schools. To me, that is a scary thought.
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