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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (76325)	2/20/2000 6:33:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 132070

After dealing with some hardworking independent contractors in the last year, I agree with you completely. There are people milking cows (dairying is so godawful that I guess you just have to naturally love it), painting houses, pouring cement, raising chickens, and doing all the more menial things like the janitor's graveyard shift, while guys (mostly guys, I bet) are hunched over computers manipulating figures with clicks of a mouse. Greenspan has done a lot to help bring this situation about. And it won't last. The woman who empties the wastebasket in my office gets up at 3 a.m. because she has a 25-mile commute to where she is supposed to start work at 5 a.m. She goes about her work with no rancor, envy, or resentment. But some time or other the real workers are going to catch on to this giant scam that lets a small percentage of the population skim off the cream. As a person who grows a pretty large fraction of his own vegetables himself, does all his own plumbing and electrical work, and even reconstructs roofs on his house, I feel entitled to take a moderately righteous tone, even though it's true that other people's taxes provide most of my income.