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From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 09:20 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > > >I know you meant long term planning, but earning minimum wage does not lend > >itself to that kind of living. People have to eat. They have to pay bills. > >They have to be able to save for a deposit. They have to live somewhere > >while they are waiting to buy their house. Etc. > > You don't have to borrow. The Portuguese around here make it a > family affair. Everybody in the extended family works, and then > they buy a house for cash. No borrowing. Now the family has > a house to live in and they begin to save for the next house. > Eventually everybody has their own house. And if you don't have a large extended family ( most ppl don't ) what then ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 09:22 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >T Wake wrote: > > >> You > >> claim to have lived on $2 a month as an example of how people should be so > >> happy to live on $200 per week. I say not only are you living in a mystical > >> past of fifty years ago, but living on a wage of $200 per week in this day > >> and age is far from easy. > > > >I wonder how she got health cover on $2 a month ! > > I didn't have it. Exacttly. So what happened if you got ill ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 09:23 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> > >> >And you like to imply things that just aren't true. You weren't living on > >> >"$2/day". > >> > >> Right. It was $2/month. > > > >And you can also clean a whole house in 15 mins ? > > When I was well, I could clean mine in 15 minutes. That couldn't have beena very thorough cleaning. Adequate for day-to-day but not over an extended period. Graham
From: unsettled on 15 Nov 2006 09:23 Don Bowey wrote: > On 11/14/06 9:02 PM, in article > Rbx6h.6426$Sw1.3046(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com, "lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net" > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >>"krw" <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote in message >>news:MPG.1fc459ba145f0210989b5d(a)news.individual.net... >> >>>In article <Lzv6h.6398$Sw1.5307(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, >>>lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net says... >>> >>>>"krw" <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote in message >>>>news:MPG.1fc3cb5179e833c9989b43(a)news.individual.net... >>>> >>>>>(of course I don't have a phone line, >>>>>so...). >>>> >>>>Well, that latter would be the real issue then, not the distance to a >>>>hub. >>> >>>No, you ditz! I choose not to have a phone line (too expensive), >> >>Actually, the phone company will run a line to your house for free. There's >>nothing saying you have to get phone service using the line. >> >>Eric Lucas >> >> > > > Very interesting - who is your Telco? > > Among the ex-Bells and Verizon, a phone line will not be run to a residence > unless someone pays for it. That can be be the house's building contractor. > Otherwise the Telco requires a Service Order, and there are costs involved. > > Nothing for free. If you pay attention you'll see that Lucas makes up stuff to suit his arguments or yank someone's chain.
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 09:25
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> I'm waiting until India and China figure out how to run clean rooms. > > > >No problem in China for sure. > > I haven't been there in a long time, but they probably still have > a lot of ramping up to do w.r.t. training. They're pretty good at manufacturing now. > >India, well......... > > Do not underestimate these people. They've already figured out > how acquire the equivalent of computer paper-pushing work. I know the Indians reasonably well having spent some time over there. They're a curious bunch. Let me put it this way.... I'd rather 'play' with them than rely on them. Graham |