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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (15535)	9/3/2001 10:05:15 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Hi Charleymane; Well, May Day is definitely a Communist holiday, I think of Labor day as being our "immunization shot" against communism. About that Barbara Ehrenreich article book. I think she wrote an article for either Harpers or Atlantic Monthly where she recounted her experience doing minimum wage work down in Florida. Being an upper class liberal of course, she had extreme difficulty understanding how anyone could get by on so little money. When she tried it, she had to take a second job to pay her rent. Then she complained that she was overworked. If she wanted to get by, all she had to do was imitate what was done by her coworkers. There are millions of people who get by on minimum wage. In some parts of the country, minimum wage is a pretty decent living, in others it's hard to get by on. Her primary error was insisting that she not have to share housing. I know, when you grow up with a silver spoon in your mouth the concept of being an adult but having to share your refrigerator with a stranger is hard to understand. But that's what all those other poor people were doing. And it's hardly some new inconvenience we've foisted on the working poor. It's always been that way. In fact, the conditions now are much easier than they were in the past. My father used to tell me how he worked in a munitions plant during the War. Even though he was making what he thought were good wages, he still had to "hot bunk". Hot bunking means that in addition to having to share a house, you also have to share your bed. More precisely, the bed in the one room apartment got used twice each 24 hours. He and the other guy were on different shifts. Such are the facts of life for the majority of the humans on this planet. My admiration is for the many many people who live happy and full lives under these circumstances. My contempt is for the upper class snobs who seem to believe that any life less leisured and refined than their own isn't worth living. -- Carl