Posted on 03/09/2020 6:12:24 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The incarcerated workers typically make 65 cents an hour.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday that the state had found a way to counteract price gouging on hand sanitizer amid the COVID-19 outbreak: by deploying cheap prison labor. Incarcerated people will be producing 100,000 gallons of the disinfectant, branded as “NYS Clean hand sanitizer,” to be distributed to government agencies, prisons, public transportation systems, and schools for free. “This is a superior product to products now on the market,”
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Prisoners can be melted into Manolin.
We used to cheer Little Black Sambo on his victory over the tiger, by melting it down.
But that is now down the memory hole.
Maybe Soylent Green?
My point being is that if it was a Republican Governor, the media would be in their outrage mode screaming that since POC are way over represented in the prison population, that this is RACIST!
POC are way over represented in the prison population, that this is RACIST!
And they are not using union labor!
The Governor is “Sonny” Santino Cuomo - head of the Cuomo Family.
I have a model lobster boat from the Maine State Prison store in Rockport. Inmates produce woodwork to make money to pay reparations they owe.
Or search sucks. I have copy/pasted titles into FR search and they didn’t show up. Now I usually just google the title followed by freerepublic if I want to find it on FR.
There are only Fredos in the Cuomo family.
By giving the prisoners direct access to large volumes of Isopropyl alcohol, it will spare them the effort of smuggling grapes from the dining facility in their ass cracks to ferment in their cell latrines.
The medical costs saved from corona prevention should just about balance out the costs of prisoner alcohol poisoning.
Is he excluding them? That means he won't let PoCs have jobs. RACISS!
Just like the inmates working in the kitchen and cooking the officers food
Kind of a derogatory-sounding term for normal and necessary market forces.
I usually just google the title followed by freerepublic
For a long time, I used the google site search function.
This the new improved search, it usually finds duplicates for me. Today’s event was a different title and source.
site:www.freerepublic.com Farmerbob
And with the magic memory of the mighty google, all I need to do is type the first letters and change Farmerbob to...
Imagine mid January Trump saying, NO ONE returns to US until they do 14 days at an American island quarantine paradise.
When will they start making lard?
NY: “Slave labor is cool when we have prisoners do it!”
It’s time for the unions to unionize prison labor. Even convicts deserve minimum wage.
Gross. Who’s gonna oversee their quality control? Or that they don’t spit, urinate, or ejaculate into their latest batch? I am making my own hand sanitizer.
Clean hand sanitizer? Is that like “hot water heater”?
I thought they would still be busy knocking out license plates for the illegal aliens who just became legal drivers in the República Popular de Nuevo York.
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