<<<<<<I don't agree with you. My father drove a cab, and my mother stayed home. They were buying the house we lived in. 1950's, let's see a cabby do that today. It now takes two members working to not quite make ends meet. Of course it's called equality, not slavery. ho ho ho
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RR, perhaps things are different in our town vs the u.s. of a. , but what you report is definitely true. Used to be in toronto that a factory worker could pick up a two bedroom home somewhere, wife would be a home maker and they'd have their two tots. Can't be done now. And those that do have plant jobs are driven mad with paperwork and computers that they don't really understand but are required to operate. And with just in time manufacturing and such, the down time that occurs due to bottlenecks that a factory worker really needs to get a few extra minutes of rest do not occur any more. They work their guts out now. And when you mention the two workers, sometimes its more. Many students work way too many hours. Some of this is to buy stuff, but sometimes they are doing the sorts of jobs that their parentals might have done 40 years ago to support their family. The families sometimes really need the money. And, when a person here is in a union type job, like the posties or the transit commish, the public seems to view these people as 'arseholes', as if organizing themselves to make a liveable wage enough to actually live somewhere decent ON STREET LEVEL is a crime against them !
But these poor people are really at fault, right, shouldn't they should have known to have bought nortel and sold a month ago ? <ng> |
