BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week

Subject: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 08:43 PM

A headline in Saturday's (10/27) NY Times says that Democrats plan a shorter work week. Specifically, it is referring to the House of Representatives.
Reaction: It can't be short enough to suit me. [drum roll please]

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 08:57 PM

Well, I was hopin' that would be for me but being self employed and working my brains out, ahhhhh, the Dems couldn't care less... Nor the Repubs...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 09:02 PM

You can't get much shorter than what Congress and the President work now and still call it "going to work."

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Amos
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 09:19 PM

Well it's only logical, no matter what party. The complexities and pressures of dealing with our rat's nest of laws is enough to make your brain hurt, and the only remedy is to stop thinking about it all for a bit. As for the Republicans, their solutions cause so many things to get worse that it is a wise move to give them less working hours to cause more trouble.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Peace
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 09:40 PM

I think it would be very nice to go back to the forty hour work week.

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Peace
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 09:42 PM

And this is the time to push for it. The computer clocks don't read the same as the wall clocks. Who'd know?

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:55 AM

Pursuing Rap's comment, I just finished a book mainly about Herbert Hoover, US president before Franklin Roosevelt. (It was interesting on many levels.)

His predecessor was Calvin Coolidge who ascended from vice president to president when William Harding died suddenly. He was the man of whom Alice Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, said that he looked like he was weaned on a pickle.

Coolidge, Gene Smith, the author says, worked very little.   "Coolidge hardly worked at all; he napped in the mornings befoe lunch, dozed a bit after eating, lay down for a few minutes prior to dinner and then, in his formal attire, sat for just a little while before going off to bed."

Of course, it was also under Coolidge that the ground was laid for the stock market crash of 1929. He had been asked whether he was concerned that so many were buying stocks on margin and "opined" that it was not worrisome. In private, asked about it again, he said that he "thought even one dollar borrowed to buy stocks was too much but it wasn't for the president to say so."

So, evidently, a life of ease and rest does not necessarily make a man wise.

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 03:30 AM

Blimey - if the working week in my office gets any shorter, some people won't have time to finish all their chatting.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: GUEST,MarkS
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 04:50 PM

We need to smuggle in illegal politicians from Mexico to do the work American politicians won't do.

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: kendall
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 08:12 AM

In France there is a law that forbids them from working more than 35 hours per week.
Here, we are the most productive of any country and our buying power goes down steadily each year.
Let's all get together and throw some tea overboard, then tar and feather a tax collector or two.

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Art Thieme
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 05:52 PM

Quite a few people died in the USA to secure the 8 hour day. We sure let that get away from us with nary a whimper. Anyone remember a place in Chicago called the Haymarket?
Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Peace
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 06:00 PM

Hear, hear, Art.

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: kendall
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 08:11 AM

Matewan was quite a scene too.

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 08:32 AM

Yeah whether we know it or not we want to be French and the French want to be us. We even both distrust globalization, but we both are getting dragged into it as the French lose their subsidized free time and Americans continue to lose what they never really had since it was all bought on credit anyway.

(reality check) Does anyone understand/get my ascerbic and succinct posts anymore? I'm getting that feeling that Dennis Miller must feel on a daily basis.

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Peace
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 11:22 AM

I read your posts regularly, Don. Always have and always will.

Subject: RE: BS: Democrats Plan Shorter Work Week
From: Peace
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 11:31 AM

What is disgusting is the way in which workers--myself included--have caved in to employers regarding unpaid overtime. The corporate 'do more with less' until eventually one is expected to do everything with nothing. IMO, it is time for a general strike--everyone who is a worker walk off the job or phone in sick. It would take six months to organize something like that in the US, Canadam OZ, NZ, Britain, Ireland, etc. However, there really isn't any other way to let employers and governments know that this shit don't cut it anymore.