[lbo-talk] Re: worker freedom of choice

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 08:02:36 PST 2005


On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:37:33 -0500, tully <tully at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 March 2005 05:54 pm, Frank Scott wrote:
> >"The working class always has the choice to avoid working
> >for and purchasing from markets that promote great
> >destruction and instead support less destructive markets"
> >
> >what a fool i've been...
> >
> >do all unions, janitors, maids, production line workers and
> >all, realize this?
> >
> >the revolution is at hand....
>
> Is sarcasm all that can be contributed to this issue? How many people
> on this list have been living years on miminum wage? I bet there
> aren't many. In fact, from what I'm seeing here, it looks like this
> list is plumb loaded with people making so much money that they have
> enough extra to play the money and investment markets and contribute
> even more to the mess we're in.
>
> So what's the difference between liberals and conservatives nowdays?
> Nothing?
>
> --tully

In San Francisco, the last two yrs. I lived there I was making only $9.50 an hr, w/ no health or other benefits, project to project, layoffs between projects sometimes lasting weeks or months. Temping there before ranged from $8.00-$13.00.

Here in Denver, temping making $10.00 an hr. doing data entry at a mutual fund behemoth during tax season rush/crunch.

An anarchist (?) on the list who has the bad habit of posting on marxmail (weird place for an anarchist to post) also, a few months ago, insinuated we are all rich schmucks, as well. Old timers here know that quite a few of us have had and still are laboring for low wages, or unemployed.

-- Michael Pugliese P.S. >...play the money and investment markets and contribute
> even more to the mess we're in...

After my Dad died in Jan. 2003 of mesothlioma (thanks to the U.S. Air Force) my ste-Mom and Sister set up a trust acct w/ Fidelity Investments for my retirement, w/ the portion in my Dad's will, for me. Has a little over 30K in it now, all municipal bonds and safe, conservative stocks. Had about 34K in it, before I tapped 3K out of it last yr, when California unemployment insurance ran out. I don't expect ever to own a house, but, even being a renter in a small studio or one bedroom apt, in twenty yrs. my retirement days, I expect that whatever is left in the acct. then, won't go that far. My Social Security $ right now, if I retired in 2005, would be a little over $300 a month, a kingly sum.



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