Homeless Depot: A Moral Alternative



The suit seeks unspecified damages on behalf of seven homeless people, some of them of color, squatting in an abandoned building next to the Home Depot parking lot in the Coney Island area of New York.




The ACLU dismissed the offer, saying that such project might get them bogged down with lowly business matters, distracting from the noble cause of supervising an even redistribution of wealth. "But we like the idea," Nadine Strossen declared. "The ACLU will make sure the Court orders the company to build a nation-wide chain of Homeless Depot stores and to pay the homeless to hang out, er, scratch that... work in them."




The Gulag Depot? (where you punch your one-way ticket)
The Dacha Depot?
Just a thought........



Eminent Domain on behalf of the oppressed!
I think there's a place in Malibu that is under-utilised.
Time to move in.




UB

Union Boss,
I used to work for Lowe's, and Hechingers back in the day, and I knew many people at Home Depot. No, they're not unionized. The clostest thing that I know of that is unionized is Costco, which is unionized by the Teamsters.
neat factoid. your average Costco forklift driver makes 40 grand a year after 5 years employment. the same guy at Sam's Club might make 18 to 23 grand. Costco's labor costs are lower per store than Sam's. How? Productivity is higher and turn over is next to nil.




Alva Goldbook
Funny picture.Union Boss,
I used to work for Lowe's, and Hechingers back in the day, and I knew many people at Home Depot. No, they're not unionized. The clostest thing that I know of that is unionized is Costco, which is unionized by the Teamsters.
neat factoid. your average Costco forklift driver makes 40 grand a year after 5 years employment. the same guy at Sam's Club might make 18 to 23 grand. Costco's labor costs are lower per store than Sam's. How? Productivity is higher and turn over is next to nil.
That's what I always thought - Unions increase labor productivity. That's why the Soviet economy was booming - it was all one huge unionized shop. Another proof of this is the Pittsburgh steel industry. There used to be dozens of steel mills, but thanks to the Unions there's only a couple left. Apparently their productivity has skyrocketed to such an extent that there's simply no need for more mills in the area. Accordingly, the workers' salaries are so high that any new raise will surely break the productivity barrier, eliminating the need in even those few remaining mills. In result, 0 mills will be producing as much steel as the currently operating ones. It can only match the fabulous success of the glorious Soviet labor statistics. Why can't we do it everywhere? I have to write a letter about it to Paul Kurgman right away! Why can't we be more like the Soviet Union? Go Unions!

Actually one of the first things the Bolseviks did was dismantle all the unions.


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Comrade Red,Actually one of the first things the Bolseviks did was dismantle all the unions.
What part of Union in Soviet Union don't you understand? One.....Big......Union.
Unions do not compete! There should only be one!
Laika


Alva Goldbook
Comrade Red,Actually one of the first things the Bolseviks did was dismantle all the unions.
Are you by any chance getting your info from Professor Kurgman's column? Please back up your future statements with links to sources, especially when dealing with progressive revisionist history.
Lenin called unions "the school of communism." I could, perhaps, believe that the Bolsheviks may have temporarily suspended unions for a short while in the days of "military communism" (if that ever happened at all) - but at all other times they heavily relied on the unions and strongly encouraged union membership. Later union membership became automatic and mandatory. If you worked for a state-run company (there were no others) you were a member of that union. The government made it all easier for everybody by taking away that choice.
There's a great story of how in the 1930 the Party manipulated the unions in its big scam to steal from Western concession owners who were stupid enough to deal with the Workers' State (it was Bukharin's idea and the entire Politburo had a big laugh out of it). I'll tell it some other time when I'm not as busy with other propaganda.
Although we, as anyone in the progressive movement, strive on historical revisionism for the masses, you shouldn't say things like this in the exclusive company of Party comrades who know the difference. It's disrespectful.

people who suffer their problem. and im the one of them who read and share the inspirational story.
try to visit the full volume of story and feel free to download:
http://www.thankgodforebooks.com/index. ... &sobi2Id=2
http://www.thankgodforebooks.com/homeless.html







scarsacred
try to read this ebook. some of all people that have a problem change their live and they share a story for thepeople who suffer their problem. and im the one of them who read and share the inspirational story.
try to visit the full volume of story and feel free to download:
"Try" is an apt term in this case. Check out the blurb that should "try" to induce me to buy the book:
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[justify]Then mysteriously something happened. Each time I was about to give up, a strange synchronicity showed up in my life, allowing me to go on. I didn’t know why these things kept happening, nor did I realize that one of the most powerful laws in the universe revealed itself — the law of surrender. In other words, as I let go and trusted my life’s process, I drew into my space more and more hidden blessings that allowed me to continue on my journey.[/justify][justify]In this ebook you will know the story behind of all the obstacles he encountered,for being thankful without a home.Now you may surprise,startle,delight and not only that,you may also accept and move unto being gratitude.[/justify]
After reading that as well as scarscared's post, I can't help thinking he's also the one who tried to write the book.
As for ANRGWinkler, I wouldn't worry about him anymore. As you can see by his post, he got whacked with a shovel mid-sentence.


Premier Betty
Once the masses have been educated correctly, they won't be able to read, and therefore these things won't happenAs usual, Comrade Betty is able to distill a complicated and difficult issue into its most essential form and by reframing it, express the most simple and elegant solution.


Red Square
Comrades, it seems we have two thoughtcriminals on our hands in one day. A re-education is in order. Should we send them directly to the Commissar of Housekeeping - or try a softer approach at the Commissariat of Mental Health. A more radical comrade may suggest that this is the job for the Commissar of Unanimous Compassion ad Impaling for the Common Good. Let the collective decide.My Glorious Roseate Hexahedron,
I am honoured that you would think of me for such an important mission, especially one that also involves etiquette, but as re-education would certainly involve English lesson - their posts are barely comprehensible - and I write Kanadistanjian English, I may not be the best re-educator for the job... On the other hand, they will certainly both smell better when I'm done with them.
I await your judgement on the matter with bated blowhole, working my whetstone and having young Aki and Chicken Sushi watch "Dexter" on DVD, as they do not have much practice on live proxies... or rather, with starting with live proxies... Aki is beside himself with such youthful excitement that I have sent him to wash the limos to help him work off some of that excess energy, lest he run amok with the Sawzall, which we "liberated" from a non-unionized Home Despot, by the way...
Oh... an interesting point.. up here in the wilds of Kanadistan, the venerable International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees: IATSE Local 873 Picture Studio Production Technicians, Toronto, is the only IA local to have a transportation department that is not controlled or staffed or in any way affiliated with Teamsters. We are very proud of this fact, because Teamsters are mean and bury people in weird public places encapsulated in concrete... And we are just not those kinds of filmmakers... we are gentle filmmakers... (AKI! For Laika's sake, stop chasing that cat with that reciprocating saw!!!)
I'm sorry... where was I? Oh yes... Comrade Director Red... just let me know if you'd like me to pick the fucktards up and and make them disappear... or not...
Right now, I gotta go and save the cat from an overexcited sociopathic adolescent dolphin...
SMO






Colonel 7.62
Ok, but what do we do with the concrete already mixed? (Inner Comrade #3, thinks we should start building the Glorious People's Cube is The Path to True Socialism as Inspired by the Revolution of 1917 Highway.)Fuck Inner Comrade #3. Dolphins have dibs on the concrete!!! Yours is not to know the reason why.


Mmmmph. Finally make the Inner Circle(TM) and there are STILL secrets. Damnit.







The possibilities are growing.

