Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 20 Jul 2006 07:11 Mxsmanic a mis l'ide suivante : > Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > >> Well that's for sure : you said that there were infinite sources of >> money, which can't be if it's a material thing. > > That is logical. > >> However you suggested afterwards that a print would suffice as an >> infinite source of money. > > A print? A banknote printing plate. -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: erilar on 20 Jul 2006 13:50 In article <1153360366.190217.24550(a)m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Again, simply not true. Workers in the US on the job more than a few > years get a month vacation every year just like in Europe. Not very many that's true of outside of teaching or very highly-paid jobs(which teaching isn't). -- Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar), philologist, biblioholic medievalist http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 20 Jul 2006 13:52 In article <rf5sb2tfcg7l3qobs7omp3vjh9vchtnnft(a)4ax.com>, deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu wrote: > On 19 Jul 2006 01:46:00 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Quality of life is not just about possessions. But it is also wrong to > >ignore financial success when considering quality of life. I can afford > >to eat as often as I want whenever I want. > > Obesity is a collosal problem in the US. Are you fat by any chance? 8-) I almost replied to that in a similar vein. If I ate as often as I wanted whenever I wanted, I'd soon be too fat to enjoy anything the least bit active, as is true for far too many of my countrymen. -- Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar), philologist, biblioholic medievalist http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo
From: Dave Frightens Me on 20 Jul 2006 16:25 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:48:58 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Tchiowa writes: > >> I wonder if France will demonstrate its vaunted medical care system and >> the high quality of life again this summer when hundreds or thousands >> die because of the heat and the hospitals can't cope with treating >> them. > >The health care system isn't the part that has to change. The country >needs to start installing air conditioning. They need education, not air-con. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Richard on 20 Jul 2006 16:34
"Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1153099807.233778.280220(a)i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > I saw a very interesting "debate" on one of the news shows a couple of > years ago (seems like it was Hard Talk but I'm not sure). The debate > was about Socialized Medicine as it relates to drugs. Canada tightly > controls drug prices to keep their Socialized Medicine system afloat. > There was a Canadian government leader defending that. On the other > side was a drug company exec. The drug exec said that the price > controls in Canada had stopped innovation. No new drugs are being > developed in Canada. The government official refuted that. He pointed > out that in the last decade *3*(!!) new drugs had been developed in > Canada. That's right. 3!!!!!! Proving what the drug exec said. In the > same period of time probably 3,000 had been developed in the US. When the government runs things, the goal - as you said a could posts ago - is public interest rather than profit. The opposite tends to happen when you leave things in the hands of private enterprise. I'd rather 3 good medications than 3000 questionable ones, out of which 500 are probably hair loss treatments that cause dryness of mouth and difficulty to control one's bowel movements. But hey, if you're impressed with big numbers.... Richard |