Give me a break. Worked to death?
Unwinding 1 hour before bed time gets me plenty of rest. No alarm needed.
That didn’t take long. Second post to scoff at people struggling in Obamanation.
While its academic students have been on holiday for 40 years.
With our own business, we certainly work a lot of hours — but there’s a difference between the hours we work and the hours lots of folks in the ‘regular’ world ‘work’.
In the regular world, it seems like ‘work’ includes regularly checking Facebook and Twitter...multiple personal calls in an hour...BS-ing with the cubicle-dweller across the way...extended lunches. In other words, precious little ‘work’ is actually done in all of those hours. When you are working for yourself, however, how much work you do determines how well you live, and if your business (and therefore you) will survive.
My father says that we reward the wrong things in this country. This is just another way that we reward poor work: by giving people something more to claim victim status on, when if the average worker was pinned on how much time they actually spend productively working, it’s not anywhere near even a standard 8 hour day.
We have become a nation of whiners and victims — and they’re all going to be voting for the guy who’ll give them free stuff and make them feel warm and fuzzy.
‘Chasing Material Things?’ God in heaven, GIVE ME STRENGTH. A ‘roof over your head’ ‘food on the table’ and basic gas/electric/waterbills aren’t exactly ‘chasing material things.’
If people were working themselves to the bone to pay for a 50” plasma screen, 900 bucks sneakers a la Moochie O, or I pads for the 5 year old, then yes, that’s stupid.
People are just trying to keep their heads above water and a roof over their head right now.
These threads are always interesting because on the one hand, Obama’s economy sucks and people are working in low paying jobs that hardly give them enough money to live. On the other hand, if the economy was in a true recovery or boom, we would realize that American workers never had it so good from a historical perspective. In a good economy, an article like this would be laughable — perhaps people work 46 hours but it ain’t exactly back-breaking work. Most Americans have nice work environments and plenty of break time. And they goof off in work too. In a recession, that changes. And in an Obama recession that goes on forever, its especially painful.
All BS!
Everyone knows that you cannot work a man to death!!!
They always pass out first!
We work hard. We have to or we'd sink completely. Between taxes and regulations, we are operating on a fraction of our potential.
Imagine a dollar worth an actual dollar, total(city, State, Federal, sales) annual taxation under 10% of your gross income, and no Alphabet Agencies coming at your business from multiple directions with the uniform goal of making it harder for you to stay in business...
Rich? Bet your ass we would be... Instead, yes... We are struggling.
I get sick and tired of this living “paycheck to paycheck” complaint. At least they have a job and most people live that way, it is a good thing, not a bad thing. What we are supposed to have a mil or two socked away so we don’t need a job living paycheck to paycheck?
I know two nurses who work in dialysis clinics. The job is Monday through Friday from 8 to 5 and no weekends or holidays. Ever.
This is the problem.
We are not being worked to death. We are being TAXED TO DEATH. We are TAXED TO DEATH, to pay for people who work for government and to whom this article does not apply. Yes, we are being TAXED TO DEATH so people who work for government can have the good life of high salary, fantastic fantasy level benefits, early retirement and MANY holidays and vacations.
If you are a middle class worker in the private sector your effective tax rate is at or greater than 50% !!!
This means if you work for 40 years of your adult life you spend 20 years of that time working for Government!!
That my friends is NOT FREEDOM, THAT IS SLAVERY. It's time we wake up. We must not reform government, we must replace it with the strictly limited system set out by our constitution. This means that MILLIONS of people who work for government at all levels including city, county, state and federal MUST BE FIRED. Their positions and benefits must be ELIMINATED PERMANENTLY, never to return. When you work in the private sector (real world) and your company goes bankrupt it's the employees who lose their jobs and suffer. Government is BANKRUPT and it's the government workers who are going to have to suffer the loss. We can no longer tolerate a system where freedom only applies to the "public" sector.
September 26, 2012
Brad Parker, the drummer of an American disco group suffered a heart attack and died mid-show during a performance in Brazil over the weekend.
Brad Parker was performing with his band Generation Esmeralda in Uba, some four hours north of Rio, on Saturday night when he suddenly slumped over his kit and then tumbled off his stool.
Video cameras caught the horrifying moment, as the 59-year-old's bandmates initially kept playing, apparently unaware that Parker was in trouble.
Maybe we should do what France does and make it illegal to work more than 35 hours a week!
It’s terrible how George Bush caused all this. /s
We work a lot and take home little. At least 40% of what we earn goes to lazy slackers who vote democrat.
Feel lucky to have a job? Look at deductions and your take home.
The people I know who do this don’t know how to budget to live within their means. They are literally slaves to their vehicle loans, TV and smart phone services, etc. etc. etc.
“Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time? “
Sounds like a definition of “Adult Life”.
Oh, stop. 46 hours at your typical office job is a snooze.
Go back a generation before 1970—let alone, two, three, four five or six—and Americans were really working, whether the land or otherwise.
If the tax slaves work themselves to death in short, empty, meaningless lives, don’t worry. There are plenty more tax slaves where they came from.