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Re: 5-day workweek

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From: George Grapman
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:54
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>> Perhaps we should be happy that they only worked 103 days.  Think of
>> the damage they could do if they worked 260 days like the rest of us. 
>> We might be better off to pay them not to work at all!


    Reminds me of Nebraska where the one house non-partisan legislature 
is limited to alternate year sessions of 60 and 90 days unless 80 
percent of them agree to continue. The thinking is if they can't mess 
things up enough in that short period they do not deserve additional time.


>>
>> Government will only improve when political action begins in local 
>> neighborhood groups (and that is a lot of work on top of our 260 days
>> of work). 
>>
>> Wayne
>> remove "spamthis." toreply
>>
> 
> 
> Yeah, instead of having strong local and state governments, we have a 
> huge, inefficient, power grabbing, and corrupt federal government.  NASA 
> recently announced that they had "lost" the film footage from the Apollo 
> moon missions, and no high quality copies were ever made of it.  The 
> Director of NASA said: "misplacing these films isn't anyone's fault; 
> it's just something that happens in large organizations."  Yeah right!  
> The sheer incompetence of NASA is what caused it.  Those films 
> represented the crowning achievement of NASA and perhaps of mankind, 
> tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, etc., and NASA misplaces them?!?!  
> They should have been locked in a safe behind a locked cage.  Only a 
> federal agency could be that fucking stupid to lose the Moon films.  And 
> why weren't they ever covnerted to high quality (lossless) digital?  I 
> suppose they were misplaced before high quality digital video existed.  
> So all we have is grainy videotaped images taken from the original 
> broadcasts.
> 
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