[lbo-talk] Re: Marketing Dork & Unemployed Pride

[Tom Walker]

Woody Guthrie__ was unemployed and broke in 1941when the Bonneville 
Power Authority offered him the princely sum of $266.66 to write a song 
a day for the soundtrack of a documentary film about the dams on the 
Columbia River. He wrote 26 songs, so I suppose he got Sundays off. 
Works out to about ten bucks and a quarter a song.

One of those $10 songs was Roll On, Columbia, the official state song of 
the state of Washington. But I'm not posting to talk about Washington or 
Woody Guthrie. I'm posting about Whiskeytown and John F. Kennedy.

What did JFK say at Whiskeytown? Part of it was these words here:/ "As 
machines take more and more of the jobs of men, we are going to find the 
workweek reduced, and we are going to find people wondering what they 
should do."/ But for the rest of what he said and a little context to 
it, you'll just have to come visit the Work Less Institute of Technology 
and read "Your power is turning our darkness to dawn.": 
http://worklessparty.org/wlitblog/archives/000664.html

The Sandwichman