Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Mxsmanic on 18 Jul 2006 04:46 mrtravel writes: > Have you asked the French what they thought of their system? Yes. They like it, although they tend to abuse it. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Dave Frightens Me on 18 Jul 2006 05:13 On 17 Jul 2006 23:55:38 -0700, "Jordi" <jordi.uso(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >Tchiowa wrote: >> > Still nonsense. You can't put Medical care, socialism and food in a >> > single sentence without looking quite silly. >> >> Of course you can. Socialism has been tried in both medical care and >> food and fails in both. Those who don't want to give up on this failed >> social experiment refuse to understand that. >> > >Repeating your failed statements will not make them any more true. That's about the same response I was thinking of. This idiot seems to me massively deluded. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 18 Jul 2006 06:01 On 17 Jul 2006 19:20:27 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >The Reid wrote: >> Following up to Stan de SD >> >> >> that's part of the mentality that says US must be right because >> >> its "richer" so lets all flog ourselves to death to own three >> >> cars and a load of useless stuff rather than have a good work >> >> life balance. Ultimately your competing with the Chinese with no >> >> leave, are you looking forward to celebrating 2% unemployment and >> >> no days off at all? >> >> >Nobody is forced to work as an employee in the US. People are free to start >> >their own businesses if they think they can do better. >> >> whoosh!!!! > >I think you missed a chunk yourself. > >Note that I can own 3 cars and a lot of stuff that I want (never mind >if *you* or someone else thinks it's useless) while having a great >work/life balance. A couple of months vacation a year. Or more. 40 hour >work weeks generally. More time with my family than at work. I think you've been tugging your weenie a bit too hard. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 18 Jul 2006 06:02 On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:46:24 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >mrtravel writes: > >> Have you asked the French what they thought of their system? > >Yes. They like it, although they tend to abuse it. So no problem then. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Iceman on 18 Jul 2006 10:18
Tchiowa wrote: > Dave Frightens Me wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:24:59 -0700, Go Fig <gofig(a)mac.com> wrote: > > > > >In article <p27kb2t3tpb9gm0tb7ukh2spmp1ce16vg5(a)4ax.com>, Mxsmanic > > ><mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Tchiowa writes: > > >> > > >> > No it can't. Why? Because the very core of Socialism is to ignore the > > >> > basics of human nature. It is also based on providing today's needs > > >> > while ignoring tomorrow's. > > >> > > >> None of this seems relevant to the concept of socialized medicine. > > > > > >So when you think of modern medical advancements, you think of France ? > > > > When you think of quality of life, do you think of the USA? > > I've been in 40 or 50 countries on 5 continents. I've lived and worked > in dozens of countries on 5 continents. When I think of quality of > life, the US is head and shoulders above most of the others. The only > one that comes even close is Australia. Europe doesn't have a country > that's even in the running. There are several Asian countries I would > put above most of Europe. I think the quality of life is higher in many European cities than in most of the US. You can live in the city center instead of in a hideous suburb, you don't need a car and don't need a long commute, and the average person has shorter working hours and more vacation. Just because Americans have bigger houses, cars and televisions than Europeans doesn't make their actual quality of life higher. |