Actually, now that I look back at your original post, I mis-read the "if you subtract.....you get 20 m who apparently don't do anything".... Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The Lie of the Master Race/Slave Race Date: 1/6/05 6:31:21 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: 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 www.andreas.com ----- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html