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To: LLCF who wrote (29046)	2/21/2003 8:31:24 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi DAK, <<How many more hours can folks work?>> The hateful French and the never-liked Germans work 35-hours week, and the J6P work 12-hours day. The hated and never-liked ones certainly want to work even less, leaving more time for wine, cheese, sunny holidays, and ski vacations. Therefore, presumably, J6P will have to work more, slogging in hot desert, climbing icy mountains, searching through dark caves, looking for this and that, so as to make sure the Citrons and Mercedes of others are fed, and debt serviced. J6P will work longer hours, for a longer time, that is, if work is available, and not sent on to Sake2Bottles and Wang3Cups. And if so, as in less J6P working longer hours and more J6P drop out of the job market, Greensputin's productivity index goes up, which is good:0/ Otherwise, it is also good:0 The system baffles me. Chugs, Jay

To: LLCF who wrote (29046)	2/21/2003 11:02:33 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Savings on labor were achieve by sacking people who held pseudo-jobs in the companies. The ability for those companies can only have been impaired if they shaved off people who had been doing real jobs. It doesn't mean -as you seem to imply- that companies sacked one guy and doubled up the job of the guys who stayed on.

To: LLCF who wrote (29046)	2/22/2003 11:57:09 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

exactly, note the flat productivity numbers in Dec recently I regard this is the last gasp of the economy use the underutilized equipment a little more get some more overtime out of workers then we hit the wall on productivity we have come to the end of the First Impulse up now it is time for the Double Dip Recession with car sector leading the way this allows for the criminal deception by USGovt in reporting productivity since when does a new Pentium PC do 5x the work as a 1995 PC ??? official reporters assume greater work my guess is they attempt to double count the added work use the multiplier on the sales side measure the production on the output side why is this not complained about by the press & media? / jim