Happy BDay Sis

Happy birthday, Sis!
This sister ate spiders and led riots as a child, which explains a lot.

I don’t claim to be any big time economist or politician or anything like that, but I think that if I were trying to get unemployment to go down and re-energize the country, I’d do the following three things:
1. Standard work week of 32 hours, overtime afterwards;
2. Four weeks standard vacation for everyone; and,
3. Apply child labor laws to fast food chains, requiring their employees to be at least 18 years of age.
Since the 40 hour week was instituted, American workers have become many many times more productive, but haven’t shared in the cash — at least give them liesure and it will create some new jobs. Not only that, but think of all the poor schmucks who already have 32 hour part time jobs that will instantly be eligible for the benefits of health insurance, etc., that they’ve deserved all along.
The French — most Europeans — have the month of August off. The Russians have a month off. We work more hours per week and more weeks per year than all the other industrialized nations.
Fast food joints would be required to pay better if they hired only adults, among other reasons.
How much would this cost the taxpayer? I’ll get back to you, but I’m not sure it would cost a nickle.
When you have no social life, you think about these things.
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