My response to that would be...
"What do you think about a 7-day weekend"?
What do you think about a 7-day work week?
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lurx: the soda jerk 2012/05/03 23:47:21
When I'm not earning a salary I'm often working overtime. When I'm not working overtime or earning a salary I get to do free work, like mowing the lawn, cleaning the garage, sweeping the leaves out of the street (or off the lawn),
My off days are work days too.
- I ABSOLUTELY love whatever it is I'm getting paid to do
- We're talking about spending half a fortnight at work and half for fun
Otherwise, you're going to have a lot more cases of this:
other than parolees and probationers must be really angry at those indeviduals to
want to torture them in such a way. No family time? No worship services? No R
and R? Positively NO fun, NO leasure, and NO recreation of any kind whatsoever?
Absolutely NOTHING but serve and serve and serve nonstop? NO WAY! Very few,
if any, human beings out there are deserving of such horrendous treatment. Most
people can make a fair and proper contribution to society with 40 hours a week and
four to five days a week. And very few owe society more than 60 hours a week and
five to six days a week. An indevidual would have to be a really rotten to the core
person to deserve to be required to put in long hours with absolutely no days off.
Maybe the 24 year old could baby sit the 8 year old for a time?
Think of the millions of women, always at the service of their husbands, children and other family members, working 7 days a week, assigned to all the chore and repetitive tasks, without salary and without holidays.
There is so little consideration for women, even today. You know, if throughout the world, women were paid a decent salary for all their work, suffering and sacrifices, there would be very few rich men.
I hope that you have a loving family who recognises all you have done for them.
There is a song by Marie Laforêt telling the story of a boy who gave his mother having to struggle in life an invoice on a piece of paper for the little tasks he did to help his mother. And remembering past times, she wrote for the boy all she did for him and went through and instead of amounts marked "gift". Then the little boy told his mother that he loved her and marked in big letters "gift". Unfortunately, there is no English version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It is dedicated to all the devoterd mothers.
I am sending you a big hug.
The whole education system is sick-minded, as feudal, wasting and consuming systems support rather heavy patriarchal hierarchy and slaving methods than natural evolution.
Till the late 60ies / early 70ies, discrimination against women, strangers, poor people, non-standardised looks or ideas, was frequent in a predominantly right wing society, and that was spread in schools. Then, the ideas of more tolerance, freedom and consumerism took over and created lots of illusions among the working people, and the immigration policy opened the doors for cheap labour force from abroad, for the industries. And schools followed new education programmes. Professional improvement, further trainings, additional qualifications, etc. certainly improved professional skills, but the series of economic crises lead to increased unemployment and pauperisation figures. A growing number of working poor and known cases about child abuse, sexual harassment, and bullying (in earlier times, such themes were also frequent but kept secret).
I just looked into a documentary about certain right-wing parties promoting campaigns against illegal immigration, Islamism, discrimination of women, unemployment, etc. and trying to awake patriotism and gain more political power. Sure that we must figh...
Till the late 60ies / early 70ies, discrimination against women, strangers, poor people, non-standardised looks or ideas, was frequent in a predominantly right wing society, and that was spread in schools. Then, the ideas of more tolerance, freedom and consumerism took over and created lots of illusions among the working people, and the immigration policy opened the doors for cheap labour force from abroad, for the industries. And schools followed new education programmes. Professional improvement, further trainings, additional qualifications, etc. certainly improved professional skills, but the series of economic crises lead to increased unemployment and pauperisation figures. A growing number of working poor and known cases about child abuse, sexual harassment, and bullying (in earlier times, such themes were also frequent but kept secret).
I just looked into a documentary about certain right-wing parties promoting campaigns against illegal immigration, Islamism, discrimination of women, unemployment, etc. and trying to awake patriotism and gain more political power. Sure that we must fight against crime, overpopulation, intolerance and religious fanatism. But this leads to extremism and does not allow the change of mentalities toward equal rights for women or sustainability regarding economy, employment and environment. And there is still a drastic lack of respect toward other people. And that comprises the recognition of women.
The present degradation of the society is a recurrence of former feudal and patriarchal systems.
Women must speak up and remind the politicians of their economic value. You might have heard about the Belgian protest campaigns because of the politic, economic and linguistic crisis in a state without government in 2010 - 2011, namely with the sex strike of the women and the men's non-shaving protests ...
I had lately an exchange of messages about female genital mutilations here in Europe in the immigration milieu. It is very difficult to convince the victims to speak up. I am still waiting for more details about the cases allowing to contact either the local authorities or the Red Cross.
Did you also follow the different Walk Free campaigns?
There are currently campaigns and petitions over Facebook and Twitter.
You can also spread ideas over http://www.facebook.com/causes
There are many international organisations whom you can contact to report about abuse or ask for information about how to get active:
http://www.terredeshommes.org/ (child health care and protection)
USA: http://www.doctorswithoutbord... (International Organisation: http://www.msf.org/)
Human rights: http://www.amnesty.org/
Women's rights: http://www.equalitynow.org/ac...
(information: http://www.rainbo.org/discrim... - discrimination)
Red Cross: http://www.icrc.org/eng/ and http://www.redcross.org/ - read http://www.icrc.org/eng/asset...
or the Salvation Army
http://www.salvationarmyusa.o...
http://www.care-international...
Solidarity (homeless): http://emmaus-international.o... - information http://emmaus-international.o...
List of US organisations: https://www.childwelfare.gov/...
For older people:
http://www.helpage.org/
Also environmental and wildlife protection organisations propose social issues and sustainability.
There are currently campaigns and petitions over Facebook and Twitter.
You can also spread ideas over http://www.facebook.com/causes
There are many international organisations whom you can contact to report about abuse or ask for information about how to get active:
http://www.terredeshommes.org/ (child health care and protection)
USA: http://www.doctorswithoutbord... (International Organisation: http://www.msf.org/)
Human rights: http://www.amnesty.org/
Women's rights: http://www.equalitynow.org/ac...
(information: http://www.rainbo.org/discrim... - discrimination)
Red Cross: http://www.icrc.org/eng/ and http://www.redcross.org/ - read http://www.icrc.org/eng/asset...
or the Salvation Army
http://www.salvationarmyusa.o...
http://www.care-international...
Solidarity (homeless): http://emmaus-international.o... - information http://emmaus-international.o...
List of US organisations: https://www.childwelfare.gov/...
For older people:
http://www.helpage.org/
Also environmental and wildlife protection organisations propose social issues and sustainability.
I was indeed involved with the organisation of environmental congresses on a broad international level, which were linked with social, economic and humanitarian issues and joint action and sustainability projects, including industrial and financially weaker countries. And I was always concerned about human and animal rights and keeping myself informed and took action according to my possibilities.