<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Marta wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">During World War II when there were less able bodied men in the labor</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">force, the disabled employment rate improved greatly.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The reason for</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that was that there were fewer people in the country to take the jobs</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and so employers would hire disabled people.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>When soldiers returned</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">home many disabled people lost their jobs to the able bodied once</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">again.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We have never regained that level of employment.</blockquote></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Sandwichman has proven that it's a myth that advocates for shorter</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">work hours are believers in the "lump of labor" idea, but the fire of</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a "lump of labor" does burn intensely among those who are weary of</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">immigrants!</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>It is the reserve army of labor at work here. Illegals are part of the reserve army just as unemployed disabled persons are. It just so happens that disabled are less valued for their labor power than able bodied illegals.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The same setback happened to women and gay men and lesbians after</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">World War II -- the setback that was due more to McCarthyism than to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the return of able-bodied "straight" men -- but they have more than</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">made up for that setback and advanced further since then.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We have to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">do the same for the disabled.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>No it had more to do with the idea that MEN support the family and therefore should have the jobs. That, however, did not apply to disabled men.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The US economy, still the biggest in the world, can make jobs for most</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">who want to work and European-level benefits for all who can't work or</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">are unemployed for various reasons, if we had a labor movement as</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">powerful as Europeans'.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>To get there, new Latino immigrants -- a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">significant number of whom learned a thing or two about left-wing</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">organizing at home -- will be indispensable.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>"Can make jobs" and will do are two different things. You know that full employment isn't a goal in this country.</DIV><DIV>Marta<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></BODY></HTML>