Keith Hudson wrote: > One of the consequences of the wonderful holiday-making, easy-going, short > working-week, family-dominated way of French life that some Americans were > yearning for recently on this list is that there are now 500 unclaimed, > unlabelled bodies in refrigerated food vans in Paris or buried in paupers' > graves with plain slabs of marble above them. > > The recent heat-wave caused 10,000 old people living by themselves or, more > usually, living in local government homes where they had long been dumped > by their families, to die prematurely.
Now I see: Americans who work 50-hour weeks with 2 weeks of holidays/yr (or two jobs with 42-hour weeks each, because the pay of one is too low to make ends meet) clearly care __much better__ for their elderly than Frenchmen who work 35-hour weeks with 5 weeks of holidays/yr. Americans have so much more time for caring for them! America is much better off: In America, old people living in local government homes don't die of heat waves. Because there are no old people living in local government homes anyway. They've died long before of appendicitis (having no health insurance to afford surgery) or of freezing (unable to afford heating) or other perfectly avoidable causes. Lack of a welfare net makes geriatrics so much easier... Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
