Here's another thing to support: fair and equivalent pay for workers in the Third World. A worldwide Bill of Rights enforced by a worldwide coalition of nations! If Third World people weren't being used by the big corporations as virtual slaves, our North American jobs would not be going overseas, would they? LH

My take, exactly. It is not greedy, per se, to want to make a living. It is the exorbitant profits that some pursue that is the problem. And sometimes even that goal doesn't stem from greed, imo. I know a woman who supports her grown sons in expensive trades- one has a helicopter sightseeing business in the Virgin Islands, the other has an automotive shop and garage in Oklahoma. Neither has yet been in the black. The woman finances these things with apartment houses and other real estate, which she is unwilling, or unable, to keep in good repair. She is simply trying to support too many on too little. It is stupidity, maybe, but not greed, necessarily.

The big corporations with their hungry shareholders are doing somewhat the same thing.

I'm one of those who believes that the less time and effort I need to spend just on daily living, whether it's on a job or buying food or tools, the more time and energy I have to spend on my real life. So, no. I don't want to go to the grocers, the produce dealer, the meat market, the t-shirt shop, the - you get the idea. I don't want to get in long lines and spend hours of my day just gathering food and other necessities, or wait three weeks for a small shop to get something into stock that I need NOW. I'm the kind of person for whom super markets were made.

I'm exaggerating a little here, but not by too much.

Ebbie