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Stinky The Clown

(67,791 posts) Tue Mar 10, 2020, 04:28 PM Mar 2020

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A few ideas for the government in this time of the Covid-19 crisis. Claim them as your own, Donnie.

1. Put the residents of the federal prison system to work making hand sanitizer and give it away free. Let the workers who make earn either commissary credits or a day off their sentences for a day worked.

2. Make it a national emergency law that price gouging is a crime and bust the perps. Give them jail time and have them join the hand sanitizer crew, but with no compensation.

3. Make the price gouging law permanent.

4. Ask China how they built emergency hospitals in a few weeks and do it faster.

5. Let the scientists speak freely.

Please add to this list . . . . .

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A few ideas for the government in this time of the Covid-19 crisis. Claim them as your own, Donnie. (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Mar 2020 OP

I'm not sure I agree with #1 democrattotheend Mar 2020 #1

They already do work. Just sayin' Stinky The Clown Mar 2020 #2

democrattotheend

(11,605 posts)

1. I'm not sure I agree with #1

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 04:37 PM

Mar 2020

I'm not in favor of forced labor, even in a crisis. If you pay the prisoners minimum wage I'd be ok with it.

Stinky The Clown

(67,791 posts)

2. They already do work. Just sayin'

Reply to democrattotheend (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 05:30 PM

Mar 2020

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