[lbo-talk] meanwhile, the US working class......

snit snat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Sat Dec 18 17:28:18 PST 2004


At 07:17 PM 12/18/2004, John Thornton wrote:


>The fast food quickies has me intrigued though. I never thought of Taco
>Bell as an aphrodisiac.

I was tallking to my neighbor about the Vioxx recall--her mother had been taking it. While we were talking about prescriptions, she confided that she'd had some experience with viagra. I couldn't believe it, but the _wife_ went to the doctor, mentioned that her husband was having a difficult time getting erections. So, the doctor prescribed viagra for _her_ to give to her husband. She couldn't get him to the doctor's himself, but the doctor said she could just slip it in his coffee. Since it has no taste, her husband would never notice.

My neighbor said she's been mortified for about two weeks now. She did what the doctor said and slipped it into her husband's coffee. Apparently, he swept everthing off the table, threw her on top and made wild passionate love to her.

I laughed and asked, "So, what's so bad about that?"

My neighbor blushed and said: "I'll never be able to show my face in McDonald's again."

Anyway, John, apologies for not making clear that I was responding to Eugene's comments in the part about how much things costs and living "beyond your means." My only response to you was that I'll bet you she doesn't really think she's exploiting anyone. She'll probably want to pay herself an reasonable salary, pay overhead, and that's it. She probably doesn't even think of it in terms of profiting off other people's poor wages. Like a lot of people, she probably figures that most people are lucky to get any job and if she weren't running the business, someone else would be running the business. She may also assume that most temps are people temping for asecond income, just like her.

Also, does anyone know the numbers of desire for small business ownership? When I was growing up, I knew of no one who wanted to own their own business. In fact, the lore was that owning your own business was harder work than if you got a decent government or factory job or a military career. Owning a small business wasn't seen as desirable and most people had stories of someone they knew who worked 70-80 hrs. a week and sometimes more until they closed up shop and got a job because owning a business was too difficult.

Kelley

"We live under the Confederacy. We're a podunk bunch of swaggering pious hicks."

--Bruce Sterling



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