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Homemade peanut butter
marika wrote
> Rod Speed > wrote
>> marika wrote
>>> Rod Speed > wrote
>>>> Vic Smith wrote
>>>>> (Gary Heston) wrote
>>>>>> tmclone > wrote: [ ... ]
>>>>>>> I'm self-employed and I work at home, so I am ALWAYS at work.I work
>>>>>>> about 12-14 hours a day 7 days a week and haven't taken a vacation
>>>>>>> in 8 years. Couldn't possibly afford it. The crappy economy has
>>>>>>> pretty much destroyed what little free time I had, so yes, for me,
>>>>>>> time IS money. As long as I am working non-stop, the bills get
>>>>>>> paid. I am either working, doing those domestic chores which must
>>>>>>> be performed (laundry, litter boxes, cleaning the bathroom, etc.)
>>>>>>> or sleeping.
>>>>>> Out of curiosity, what type of work do you do that requires this workload?
>>>>>>> ****ing away an hour to make peanut butter to save a buck is SO not
>>>>>>> going to happen. I'm glad the economy is treating all of you so well
>>>>>>> that you actually have free time. I remember free time fondly, like
>>>>>>> I remember the economic bounty this country had under Clinton. Come
>>>>>>> to think of it, the Clinton Administration was the last time I had
>>>>>>> free time. Or money. Or health insurance. Or, well, pretty much
>>>>>>> anything besides work.
>>>>>> Thank Reagan, he got it going; Clinton just rode the wave, and the interns.
>>>>> Reagan was no picnic, but the jobs started flowing offshore with a vengeance under Clinton and Bush II.
>>>> Plenty had been doing that long before that, most obviously with japan.
>>>> And lets not forget that unemployment bottomed at 4.x% with an
>>>> immense legal and illegal immigration rate just before the clowns
>>>> completely imploded the entire world financial system, AGAIN.
>>>>> The Reign of Wall Street.
>>>> Nothing to do with Wall St, everything to do with the chinese getting
>>>> their act into gear and tossing communism in the bin where it belongs.
>>> I don't know about that. I just listened to a commentator on a news show (it was either Buchanan or Brzezinski or
>>> someone like that) who said that communism there is hardly gone.
>> More fool whoever it was.
>> Its gone completely now, they just have much more of
>> a command economy/centrally planned economy than
>> most of the rest of the world now. Thats not communism.
> awesome, though I'd argue that from the strictest sense it wasn't communism, but more like a vast national prison
> system
Its nothing even remotely resembling anything like a prison system.
They are free to work for whoever they like and there arent any real
restrictions on who can move from rural areas to the citys anymore.
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