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Old 02-05-2009, 05:34 PM posted to rec.gardens,rec.gardens.edible
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Bill wrote:

The original May 1 celebration is a good thing. However I feel it has
been co-opted. Many of my peers in the work place 1990 bragged about
how much overtime they got. In my immediate family I have a brother a
grad of Berkeley School of music that worked 12 hours a day 7 days a
week and after 25 years lost it and no pension. This as a Nursery
Manager. Now he works 6 days a week 12 hours with a 401 K. Yea good
money but what a life.

Bill

Excellent book

"The Poverty Of Affluence" subtitled "A Psychological Portrait of the
American Way of Life". By Paul L. Wachtel

Check out the reviews.


http://www.amazon.com/Poverty-Afflue...rait-American/
dp/0865711518/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241274971&sr=1-1

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

Not all who wander are lost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)


Funny thing, success. Commonly in Europe it is gaged by service to your
family. Here in America, it is gaged by service to your job.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html