tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post114694915367647046..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: It's not the 1930's or the 1940's anymoreambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1147011837426373792006-05-07T08:23:00.000-06:002006-05-07T08:23:00.000-06:00chuck:Nursing is like that.I worked 7 days a week ...chuck:<BR/><BR/>Nursing is like that.<BR/><BR/>I worked 7 days a week for years. One time I went 3 years without more than a day off the farm. Me, the cows, and the flies.<BR/><BR/>That explains why I am a little, you know, eccentric.<BR/><BR/>But the labor movement gave people something they had not had before: rights. And that was translated into labor laws which gave people certain basic protections from exploitation.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1146977544073386502006-05-06T22:52:00.000-06:002006-05-06T22:52:00.000-06:00Three 11 hour days would be as productive and allo...<I>Three 11 hour days would be as productive and allow for a richer life.</I><BR/><BR/>Well, the only manual labor jobs I've had ran 10 and 12 hours respectively. The first had working hours 6 to 5 with two 15 min breaks and 1/2 hour for lunch, the other just ran four hours overtime every darn day -- and when the milk comes in 365 days a year you can't just shut down and walk away. Ask Terrye. Those jobs they weren't any of those three days a week jobs either. I wonder how many jobs really are that?chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15164145672293455823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1146970513652618092006-05-06T20:55:00.000-06:002006-05-06T20:55:00.000-06:00Terrye,Some of those things aren't the most health...Terrye,<BR/><BR/>Some of those things aren't the most healthful for the economy though. I agree 100% with your central premise but the 8 hour day is tied to manual labor. Three 11 hour days would be as productive and allow for a richer life.<BR/><BR/>The Dems are tied to a static analysis economic model and are anything but 'progressive'. They really do need to examine that paper carefully if they are to have a future. I don't believe current leadership to be capable of doing so. There is still too much money and power located in the Blue Castles.Rick Ballardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082425215912372067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1146967562466993002006-05-06T20:06:00.000-06:002006-05-06T20:06:00.000-06:00Rick:In some respects the Democrats are victims of...Rick:<BR/><BR/>In some respects the Democrats are victims of their own success. By that I mean that people are not worried about labor rights and a safety net because those things have been provided for them...and the rest don't need them.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1146964186095861502006-05-06T19:09:00.000-06:002006-05-06T19:09:00.000-06:00The paper about which Barone is writing is very in...The <A HREF="http://www.ppionline.org/documents/Class-Interest_Populism_042606.pdf" REL="nofollow">paper</A> about which Barone is writing is very intresting. The DLC is trying to promulgate a "reality based" view of the actual economic status of people who theoretically should be drawn to the class envy tactics of the Dems. By taking a 15 year view rather than a 1 year view they come to the less than startling conclusion that only 23% of the voting popuplation should be concerned about envy issues. The author neglects, however, to accurately describe the location and propensity to vote of the 23%. We're talking Blue Castle moat dwellers for the most part.<BR/><BR/>The paper does an excellent job of describing the shift in employment both in compensation and in type. If the lefties were intelligent enough to understand what this fellow is saying they might sit down and shut up for a while so that some sort of platform that conforms to reality might be fashioned.<BR/><BR/>The other thing that I find puzzling is that the Dems never note that their programs have been in place for 70 years and are unlikely to be overturned.Rick Ballardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082425215912372067noreply@blogger.com