Sounding Circle: Two People To Do All The Work

 Two People To Do All The Work2 comments
28 Jun 2003 @ 17:10, by Raymond Powers

My friend Warren sent me this.

-For a couple years I've been blaming it on lack of sleep, too much pressure from my job, earwax buildup, poor blood, but now I found out the real reason: We're tired because we're overworked. Here's why: The population of this country is 273 million; 140 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do the work. There are 85 million in school. This leaves 48 million to do the work. Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government. Leaving 19 million to do the work. 2.8 million are in the armed forces.
This leaves 16.2 million to do the work. Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for state and city governments. That leaves 1.4 million to do the work. At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, Leaving 1,212,000 to do the work. Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. That leaves just two people to do all the work... You and me ... And you're sitting on your ass, at your computer, reading jokes.

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1 Jul 2003 @ 14:34 by sharie : being tired....
when you run a marathon, it's common sense that you need to rest...

when you run a mental marathon - when you're on the go day in and day out, dealing with a difficult boss, deadlines, office gossip, out of control finances, overtime hours, a crumbling relationship, debilitating health, aging parents, and dependent children... it should be common sense that you need a rest...

BUT psychiatrists need to pay their $7,000 a month mortgage so the diagnosis is "depression" and you're prescribed a psycho-tropic.

Common sense anyone?  



9 Aug 2003 @ 15:18 by sevenlamb : we must actively save each other
This is our only real hope. Whatever aids this, aids us – and anything not actively aiding us to become alive and awake for and with each other...is acting directly against our persons, peoples and world in every domain. There is no middle ground in this polarity. Passivity is active oppression in any fundamentally unified game.

We must live communal sense, not think or speak it. Now, how will we join hands to effect such a change? No - better yet. Join hands. Let's effect such a change together...

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