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To: greenspirit who wrote (48842)	7/18/2013 12:10:26 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 85487

Part-Time Workers Say Schedules Getting More Erratic... Snip: Government data support Graham's impressions of workplace conditions. The ranks of people working part time because they can't find full-time jobs have roughly doubled since the summer of 2007, from about 4.3 million to 8.2 million. "There has been a surge in part-time work," says Aparna Mathur, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute. The change reflects business owners' reluctance to hire full-time workers while they still have so many worries about the strength of the recovery and the cost of the Affordable Care Act, Mathur says. "You want to maintain flexibility so you can respond to the economy" without having to carry the costs of hiring and firing full-time employees, she says.

To: greenspirit who wrote (48842)

7/18/2013 2:29:25 PM

From: koan

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Bush and pubs appoint right wing people, but you don't think Obama and dems should appoint ledft wing people?

I grew up in a town that is over half black. I know their culture well.

We have a very large native population up here.

80% of scientists lean democratic and 51% are liberal, so how bad can liberals be?

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Then Obama should show some leadership and stop offering up radically left wing liberal appointments. Obama is always a poor helpless victim to you isn't he Koan? As you live in the 95% white state of Alaska as a wealthy top 7% wage earner, pretending to better understand the needs of black Americans. What a cliche'! LOL

To: greenspirit who wrote (48842)

7/18/2013 2:39:54 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 85487

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

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Stockholm syndrome, or capture–bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. [1] [2] The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome. [3]

Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes “strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other.” [4] One commonly used hypothesis to explain the effect of Stockholm syndrome is based on Freudian theory. It suggests that the bonding is the individual’s response to trauma in becoming a victim. Identifying with the aggressor is one way that the ego defends itself. When a victim believes the same values as the aggressor, they cease to be a threat. [5]

Battered-person syndrome is an example of activating the capture–bonding psychological mechanism, as are military basic training and fraternity bonding by hazing[ dubious – discuss]. [6] [7] [8]

Stockholm syndrome is sometimes erroneously referred to as Helsinki syndrome. [9] [10]