Why do the poor have more free time?
 

If you think it's OK to redistribute income but repellent to redistribute leisure, you might want to ask yourself what—if anything—is the fundamental difference.

http://www.slate.com/id/2161309/nav/tap1/

Well, here in the EU there are minimum amounts of holidays that employers must give and limits on the amount of hours employers can put people to work for so this is almost a non-issue.

Which is why your economies are always at the edge of disaster.

:rotfl: WHAT?

Seriously! Where do you come up with such ridicously broad statements like that!? :doh:

The living of many American workers is as well.

BTW, Germany currently is booming, while Alan Greenspan warned some days ago that the Us is close to a recession.
And the US still is world record holder in financial debts and state deficits.

All the Western economies are living on tick.

I have a bad word ready to fly off my keyboard which I'd like to type but will not.

There are lazy poor people. Many lazy poor people. But never, NEVER, ever, make such @#%^#$@mn @#@#%^ed generalizations please. I take very personal offence at the generalized suggestion this thread makes, having grown up in a family that spent my entire lifetime and then some clawing their way out of poverty and still clawing away. And this is not a rare case. Likewise, I've seen far too many idle rich people to even begin to make an argument like that.

I told him the same like CCIP just days ago, but it seems WG was not interested to think over how many people he necessarily offend by such generalizations and cynically scratch off the list.

The 'European Union' is all about attempts to remain economically solvent. If your respective economies' were not in jeapordy why establish the Orwell 1984 block?

Haven't seen a headline like this coming from Europe.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=107132

Haven't considered some of the replies either.

Well, we know where this thread will lead to.
I'm out.

*loud profanities*

:doh: Your seriously nuts waste gate! Europe contains sevral of the worlds strongest enonomys.

Anyhow, I'm with SkyBird:
I'm out of this one!

That's what they tell ya. Yet, the EU and the Euro was formed.
You make me laugh:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

What happened to the Franc, Deutch Mark, Lera, etc., etc.

And some of the worst, excluding Africa. Look east.

Um, a new currency was formed to make trading easier and remove speculators. Good idea, too.

So, you would need new currency because your trade was so poor? Doesn't that just point to a bad economy, all to geather?

No.

Trading with who? The EU, and specutalors still exist. Currency is exchanged by speculators gambling on highs and lows every day of the week. I think they call it arbritage.

Internal trading within the Union. It removes exchange rate costs, which can be a real pain if you're doing cross-border business. It's also wonderful for traveling, holidays and the like. The change I get from a fiver in Dublin can buy me a newspaper in Koln. I love that.
I know what currency speculating is. And I know that currency speculators still operate. But no longer do they bet on Eurozone currencies, because my golly there's only one. I thought that was obvious.

If everyone uses the euro you are not really trading, you are purchasing.

Yous aid in one post that it stops speculating and in the next that you know it goes on. Make up yur mind and realize that you have given away your sovereignty for the Orwellian lifestyle you claim to dislike so much. 'You are the Eastern Block'.

Explain the difference. Actually, explain the whole post. Maybe I'm thick, but I don't follow.

Waste gate, read this next part very slowly.

Post 1: a new currency was formed to make trading easier and remove speculators.
Post 2: currency speculators still operate. But no longer do they bet on Eurozone currencies