Thomas Lunde wrote: > > He bought a castle with 500 rooms > > and his wife was caught riding a Harley-Davidson through the extended > > corridors. Sally would give her a BI to pay the gasoline, I guess.
> Yep, I would advocate that she gets the Basic Income to do her thing. A > story. My grandparents where Norwegian and the household was fairly > European. Grampa handled the money. Grandma made the household work. When > they got old, each of them got an Old Age Pension and grampa said to > grandma, give me the money, I am the man of the family. Grandma said, "All > my life, I have never had any money of my own and now the cheque from the > Government of Canada is addressed to me with the cheque made out in my name. > This is my money. > > And she did things with that money that she had been denied from doing for > 45 years of marriage. Maybe the billionare above bought the Harley but > would not buy the gas. I think this example illustrates well how the BI proponents think BI is a cure-all for problems that should be solved in their own right, instead with strange band-aid stuff like BI. If Grandma never had any money of her own, then something was seriously wrong with her marriage (or rather with her husband -- too patriarchal). Now you want the state to "fix" her marriage -- sad, and a questionable band-aid. I mean, if she cannot even get her husband to share money, I don't want to know what she can't get from him either... Next thing you know, she'll ask the state to [Politically incorrect example clipped!] fix the cupboard because hubby refuses to do it ?! The same applies to your strange assumption that "Maybe the billionare above bought the Harley but would not buy the gas." First of all, a Harley without gas makes pretty little sense. Second, if the billionaire doesn't even concede her the gas in a 500-room castle, then I guess your BI of ~$800 per month wouldn't save her marriage either. Anyway, your Grandma example is obsolete, because these days, women tend to have their own work i.e. income. But even if they don't, a modern husband will share his income with his wife on an equal basis. At least that's what my parents have been doing, although they are older than you. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
