Good grief, now we have proposed redistribution of work hours.
Why not come out and just say, "we're too bloody lazy to contribute to society."
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To: Professional Engineer
“We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.”
2 posted on
02/05/2013 4:02:23 PM PST by
dfwgator
To: Professional Engineer
At least none of us will have Obamacare.
To: Professional Engineer
Oh, sheesh....the younger you are, the more hours you should work. I would like to see high school ended around age 14/15...and then work or advanced education. People should work the most during their most productive years.....especially from 15 - 50. I worked many a 60 hour work week in my 30’s and 40’s. Won’t kill ya! Will make you stronger, or at least help you prioritize better!
4 posted on
02/05/2013 4:05:38 PM PST by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
To: Professional Engineer
How about everyone go onto 30 hour weeks- 3, 10-hour days.
You would not get paid a lot but hey! I would shovel ditches if I could have 4 days a week off every single week.
One half the poplulation works the first 3 days, the other half the next three days, and we all have Sunday off to THANK GOD FOR ENDLESS 4 DAY WEEKENDS!!!
I would love to go to 4, 10-hour days already- i have too much I want to do at home with jy children. With all that extra time I could plant a garden to make up for the food money i would lose... get my garage cleaned and KEEP IT CLEAN! go swimming and stay healthy - not spend every weekend beat-down and dragging for some more energy to start another week...
WOO HOO!
5 posted on
02/05/2013 4:06:52 PM PST by
Mr. K
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
To: Professional Engineer
I think it makes sense. When you think of government workers I’m sure a lot of them (not all mind you) could complete their primary tasks in 25 hours per week. That’d be a nice savings for the taxpayer.
6 posted on
02/05/2013 4:07:52 PM PST by
MeganC
(“Free Men Need Not Ask Permission!”)
To: Professional Engineer
They should just make the economy so that all women can stay home with their kids, all day.
Should mommies HAVE to work...? I think not.
7 posted on
02/05/2013 4:08:09 PM PST by
gaijin
To: Professional Engineer
Cool, we can spend the rest of the time on FreeRepublic.
8 posted on
02/05/2013 4:09:40 PM PST by
Track9
(hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
To: Professional Engineer
40 hours isn’t enough!!!
I averaged over 12 hours a day 6 days a week for over 40 years and sometimes that wasn’t enough.
10 posted on
02/05/2013 4:11:41 PM PST by
dalereed
To: Professional Engineer
There was a guy on Cavuto today urging for a shorter work week and mandatory vacations like in Europe.
The cuts in work would produce cuts in energy used resulting in cuts in greenhouse gasses and the cost savings over a hundred years would be in the trillions. There would be real climate change
I thought the interviewer (not Neil) was going to burst out laughing.
11 posted on
02/05/2013 4:12:40 PM PST by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
To: Professional Engineer
I am retired and could not work that much even if I wanted to.
12 posted on
02/05/2013 4:12:55 PM PST by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Professional Engineer
Okay, let’s drill down a bit... shall we?
The labor force today is 160m, with 140m employed and 20m unemployed.
Is the proposal on the table for, say, 240m to work a 25-hour week? Didn’t they try this for 50 years behind the Iron Curtain a few years back?
Or, just as likely, is the proposal for the aforementioned 140m employed to work 25 hrs, and the other 20m+80m taking from the system, and for that 140m to pay 60% higher taxes so that the govt collects the same amount?
15 posted on
02/05/2013 4:24:43 PM PST by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: Professional Engineer
sure, as they starve to death while freezing in the dark cause they are broke
16 posted on
02/05/2013 4:26:37 PM PST by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Professional Engineer
I think Norway is close to this model.
17 posted on
02/05/2013 4:28:42 PM PST by
Chickensoup
(200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
To: Professional Engineer
A proposal worth analyzing in some depth. I'm surprised at the mindlesss kneejerk reactions here. The 40 hour work week is a norm of fairly recent origin and not at all a universal norm, so why is it considered a sacrosanct minimum?
To: Professional Engineer
sheesh things are already running at the speed of cold molasses, this would make it worse
19 posted on
02/05/2013 4:36:06 PM PST by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Professional Engineer
I thought this was going to be a proposal for instituting job-sharing as a way to get more people back to work. I think something like this was mandated in Australia back in the 1980s.
Today, it would fall under the current fad of "fairness," arguing that it's not fair for someone to hoard a well-paying job all their lives, and so they must give up some of it so that someone less fortunate also has a chance to earn a decent living.
-PJ
22 posted on
02/05/2013 4:53:25 PM PST by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Professional Engineer
Tripe like this is why I don’t read Inc.
24 posted on
02/05/2013 4:56:57 PM PST by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
("I'm not anti-anything, I just wanna be free." - Mike Muir)
To: Professional Engineer
How about people negotiate their work-week with their employer and come to a free market agreement? Involving government is stupid and statist.
/johnny
To: Professional Engineer
I stopped reading at Denmark. Isn’t that the country where dope is on a menu? Enough said.
28 posted on
02/05/2013 5:31:43 PM PST by
Cyclone59
(Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)
To: Professional Engineer
I normally plan for 4 x 10 hrs. It usually turns into 4 x 12. What pansies can afford to work only 25 hrs? That's hardly two good days of work.
29 posted on
02/05/2013 7:20:37 PM PST by
Myrddin
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