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To: TobagoJack who wrote (75519)	6/22/2011 10:51:34 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217669

Live in help obviously pricier here :o) or we are not wealthy enough :O) I quite enjoy a lot of those things :O) The car.. just a thing... service guy dies that..

To: TobagoJack who wrote (75519)	6/23/2011 3:18:30 AM
From: marcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217669

yep, hell on earth. what's on the tube? =g?-

To: TobagoJack who wrote (75519)	6/23/2011 3:42:50 PM
From: Amelia Carhartt	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217669

I used to have a maid, caregiver and gardener. I couldn't wait to get a smaller place and get rid of the help, nothing but management problems and drama. As for live in, I would rather do it myself than give up my privacy.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (75519)	6/23/2011 5:09:56 PM
From: dan6	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217669

Live-In Help? No thanks. I've never felt comfortable having people dote on me. Except Mom of course. But I hear some people kind of like it... More seriously, The Mother Jones article is worth looking at: >> Overworked America: 12 Charts that Will Make Your Blood Boil << [url]http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speedup-americans-working-harder-charts[/url]

To: TobagoJack who wrote (75519)	6/23/2011 11:13:40 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 217669

You forgot to include childbirth on your list.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (75519)	6/24/2011 12:20:11 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 217669

WE did invent the refrigerator, washing machine , dishwasher, electric oven & leading up to the incredible RoomBa , to help free up Mom from house chores . After all these previous marvelous inventions & appliances for the manic "American Liberation Front" led to the i flowering of the Great American Dream , human kind had never witnessed such inventiveness of gadgetry ever before ....linking science , science fiction with reality . And now much later the new "iFlowering" of the Apple ecosystem of appliances which the Chinese will soon replace of their own devices . ( Chinese scholars must even to this day be amazed by our achievements & have a soft spot in their hearts for US...BIDU has now begun to replace Google in China ) The post WWII experience was a marvel as the sciences merged with the technological skills & machinery of mass production leading to the creation of appliances for the enjoyment more & more "liesure time" which in many minds was the right & the the bounty of Democracy & a free society . Housing boomed , hydroelectric dams were built teeming cities rose up & built in deserts and appliances of conveniences were created & marketed to fill them. Appliances who's value did liberate, free up the individual and cannot ever be fully discounted how much impact these advances in technology were to have on the modernizing of global markets thru the 20th century . America became the shining star of innovation and all other examples of trade & free market places pale , for who could boast more for the creation of liesure & wealth for her masses ? The Greatest Invention of the late 20th Century This was followed and one can think of no other invention with a more profound impact on any society from the dawn of history , which also came from US as far back in late 1940's in Pennsylvania and was to later recieve full national brand recognition by Swanson & Sons in 1953 ...and the GREAT "TV Dinner" was created and marketed to 10's of millions loc.gov Microwave Oven the Ultimate Liberator from Raytheon * Just a few years earlier in 1946 over at Raytheon Corp, Dr Percy Spencer was accidentally exploding eggs with microwaves generated by radar magnetron tubes and later the Microwave Oven was born showing the value of Military R&D transfered over into the common good ...unfortunately the first units were 6ft tall & weighed 750 lbs so recieved little acceptance and to very mixed reviews ;o) smecc.org