Unbiased reporting from this Worker's Paradise in the Peoples Republic of California.
Posted on 09/24/2007 8:14:07 AM PDT by SmithL
Pool boys are supposed to conduct torrid affairs with lonely pool owners. James Razsa has passionate feelings about his client, but not the kind likely to turn romantic.
Razsa cleans former President George H.W. Bush's pool, in Kennebunkport, Maine.
An enduring American figure, the pool boy has long stood for one lowly half of the nation's class gulf. When the pool owner happens to have been the most powerful man on the planet, and the pool boy happens to be one of the planet's great despisers of power, the metaphor explodes into 1,000 points of light.
"If every American had to pool-boy for these people for a day, you'd have a revolution on your hands," is how he sees things.
The 23-year-old from rural Maine says he cleans several pools in the area, not just the Bushes', for a large pool-cleaning company. He works about 45 hours a week, and calls it the easiest job he ever had. He's paid $9 an hour -- "pennies thrown at my feet," relative to the wealth all around him, he says.
Maybe his education about "the ignorant rich" is worth a few additional pennies: "I didn't know places like this existed in Maine. Half an hour from the trailer where I live, there are places with multiple Ferraris, and guest houses five times larger than my trailer," he says.
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Unbiased reporting from this Worker's Paradise in the Peoples Republic of California.
Where to start, where to start? I guess I can only say that the worst racists are the libs and the worst class snobs are the libs. “Pool boy”? “Pool boy”?
BTW thread is just crying out for a Looter Guy pic!
We pay $25 per week/cleaning for our lap pool when it was up and running (roof blew off and flooded the room/mold last year).
It takes about 30 to 40 min. to clean/chemical our small lap pool.
If he wasn’t poor lazy and uneducated,he could be an owner.
Apparently this writer does not know the role pool boys play in a certain genre of women’s literature, ahem, and in the electronic media. See Scrubs episode entitled My Dirty Secret. The pool boy a stereotype, the 21st century equivalent of the gamekeeper in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, not exactly an icon for organized labor.
Of all the pathetic hit pieces I’ve read from the sad sacks in the left wing media, this is one of the most pathetic I think I’ve ever seen.
Where to start is right! Sounds like the real jerk is the pool boy. Must be hard to clean that pool with a two-ton chip on his shoulder.
Pool boy you are a L-O-S-E-R.
Apparently this writer does not know the role pool boys play in a certain genre of women’s literature,
you must have missed the first sentence....
Hmmm, torrid affairs AND $9.00 an hour? Wonder if there are any openings for a 50 year old with a few extra inches around the middle but still in decent shape?
Re #10 - Do you all have a pool?
Sorry I did not make myself clear. My point being the pool owners are not exactly lonely. They are promiscuous. You must have missed Desperate Housewives (although the pool boy there was actually the yard boy.)
In July of 1978 I stayed at a home in Biddeford pool (spelling). It was one of those giant, old money homes. My girlfriend at the time was from one ‘old money’, her family owned the house for generations. The back of the house abutts a gold course there.
The family was Democrat, and hardcore leftwing at that. during my week long stay, I had a conversation with the cook, who was married to the garderner/driver. We talked about the local area, weather in Maine that time of year, what was for dinner.
Later that evening, my girlfried - on instructions from her grandmother - explained to me ‘you don’t talk to the help.’
Coming from a Teamster family....I noted to this young woman I had dated throughout highschool ‘I AM the help. My dad’s a Teamster truck driver, remember?’.
It was the first time I ever encountered liberalism, folks.
And I was appalled by it. This family touted all the leftwing causes of that time frame, including Global COOLING was going to kill us all.
The next day, after wandering around the neighborhood (a spectacular monastery type building is in the neighborhood for example, huge red brick building) we had dinner, and after small talk about the house and its amazing collection of antiques...I asked ‘who lives next door?’.
The grand matriarch laughed and said ‘Oh, the former Ambassador to China....they are polite, but not ‘our kind’ of people...’
That neighbor was GHW Bush, folks, and you see the house in the pics.
Bottom line is the ‘townies’ are not given much thought by any of the old money types that live there, and it has nothing to do with politics.
I hate people who pee in their pools....JK
I’d love to know the Kennedys’ pool boy’s opinion of them.
Bush has poor taste in picking workers. I doubt Bush had any say in the matter.
I’m not a GWB basher BTW.
He wants to make movies, which is the first line in the biography of most lifetime busboys.
He is a 50 year old family man, who gets $60 a month - times 160 clients.
Of course he worked his butt off building his own business and HE is it’s only employee...AND it is NOT the easiest job in the world like this dweeb calls his job.
btw, the house I stayed at was called ‘Zipheus’ (phonetically, I don’t know greek, nor the spelling in greek) meaning ‘swordfish’.
The ego of all that live there is unbelievable - by that I mean the entire neighborhood, that comes to this part of Maine for three months, June - August, each year.
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