At 11:06 AM 11/22/00 -0500, you wrote:
>The New York Times profiles a family on page A22 that it describes as "an
>average American family in nearly every way, according to the Bureau of
>Labor Statistics". There are two children, both parents work, and they
>earned about $40,000 combined last year, slightly more than the year before.
>The television set is new, and the miles are their cars are piling up. They
>have no health insurance and do not own a house. The biggest difference
>between them and millions of other working families is their occupation.
>"Trapeze artists," their tax forms read.
aren't all working people trapeze artists, in a way?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
