On 11/18/2010 5:00 PM, Ignoramus5827 wrote:
I visited SK Hand Tool factory in Chicago. It is a surprisingly big
complex of large, old, slightly mysterious, industrial buildings. I
was there to pick up a card cabinet.

What I saw there was forklifts that moved metal crates full of tools
(sockets, socket extensions, wrenches, cabinets etc) and dumped them
in a big metal dumpster. Turns out that the new owner (Ideal
Industries) that bought assets of bankrupt SK tools, does not want
those goods and decided to scrap them. They are declining all
offers to buy that stuff.

The manager of SK tool personally accompanies the dumpster to Gary,
Indiana, to make sure that the tools are all dumped into the scrap
furnace and not pilfered on the way.

Pretty much everyone over there is shocked at this. I was, too. It
reminded of of the Soviet Union, where that sort of waste abounded and
"not giving a ****" was the new religion. The only difference was that
in the Soviet Union, all that stuff would certainly be stolen there,
and here I am sure that everyone honestly played their part and
everything that was supposed to be destroyed, would be destroyed.

i


The anti government people need to learn a lesson from this. This is a
"business" decision. We all hear from the right wing constantly how
great private enterprise is and how inefficient and wasteful the
government is. Well, that is a crock, of course. If you really looked at
business practices around the country and the world you would see that
business is rarely, if ever, better than government at doing things.
Business does a terrible job all the time. You just don't see it because
when business does poorly they go out of business, but before they do
they do whatever they do very badly.

You would think that if a business has a good product they couldn't
screw it up and go bankrupt but it happens all the time. My sister used
to work for the Simmons mattress company. They made the Beauty Rest
mattress that was as good as anything on the market. But they did a
lousy job and they went down. So when you see this kind of idiotic thing
done by a business just remember that it isn't an anomaly. It happens
all the time. But you don't have an anti business group publicizing it
like you do when it's the government doing things badly, which they can
do too.

Hawke