[lit-ideas] Re: The Lie of the Master Race/Slave Race

  • From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:30:13 -0800

Nice try, Julie, but if you read the line...

> I can't remember the exact numbers, but if you subtract the children, college 
> students, 
> housewives, the elderly, people in prisons...

Note the "housewives" in there.

yrs,
andreas
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:08 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Lie of the Master Race/Slave Race


> Some of the population who "doesn't work"  are day-care workers,  nurses,
> teachers, financial mangers, secretaries, janitors, cooks, launderers,
> chauffeurs, and mediators.  All 24/7.  No vacations, no weekends  off.  We 
> call
> ourselves Mothers/Housewives/Homemakers.  Since the  employer in the sky 
> doesn't drop
> green-backs onto our pillows, I understand that  we "apparently don't do
> anything".  I have worked full time for many years  of my life.  This is a 
> period
> during which hiring a taxi to chauffeur my  children to and from their
> extra-curricular after-school activities would cost  more than I could make 
> after
> paying taxes.  Health care?  The  deductible and payments would be more than 
> my
> childrens' Dr. bills.  C'mon,  Andreas.  There's a fair number of us out here.
> And we're neither  lazy nor invisible.
>
> Julie Krueger
> Housewife who apparently doesn't do anything.


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