On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:17 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:42 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > >> He does have time on his hands, most of the year. > > He has time on his hands all year long! > > He exploits thousands of vertically challenged workers, knowing he can > pay them slave-wages because they're otherwise unemployable due to > their disability (er, challenge). These poor suckers are virtually > imprisoned in dorms located in one of the most isolated places in the > world, so that even if they escaped they'd freeze to death getting to > civilization. > > Due to the fact that he's located on an international ice floe, there > are no labour laws to protect these pathetic hoards. > > They work in drafty workshops with no machines or other automation; > so low are their wages that capital investment would be a money-losing > proposition. They sleep in mangers with red-nosed ungulates with whom > they compete for both food and straw beds. > > Since Santa gives his toys away for free, it's assumed that he makes > nothing from his yearly venture, but in fact he's paid well by the > world's largest toymakers - for every x-box and Nintendo Wii he gives > away, some little chump will use his Walmart wages to buy ten times > the worth of the unit in games. That's where the real money is, in > games. > > Then he has the nerve to dress in red, trying to look like a Commie, > when in fact he's an uber-capitalist to the nth degree. > > Shame on the Jolly Olde Elf!
Thats what I said.:-) Dave > > cheers, > frank, who's celebrating Hannukah this year > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
