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I do not like people who mooch off the government, which in turn means they are mooching off my hard work.
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The biggest "moochers" off of your hard work are not those on welfare:
http://www.newyouth.com/archives/wor...k_reminder.asp
Samuel Lynbrook
August 15, 2001
Recently, I recieved a raise in pay, a grand fifty cents which brought my hourly wage up from $6.00 to $6.25. Working in a photo lab in a Florida Eckerds, (a drug store chain owned by JC Pennies) what do you expect? Of course, this is where being a Marxist always gets you in trouble. I expect the capitalist class which leeches off of humanity to be overthrown.
I have always been aware that I was and still am being grossly exploited by the capitalists, but never before had I done the math! (Of course the following numbers are approximations in many cases, such as hourly wages of co-workers and so on.) Opening a binder in the back of the photo lab labled "finance" I found many statistics dealing with the profit and expenses of the lab. Namely the Gross profit.
Gross profit for April: $16,200.00, and a few lines down the word "usage" with $4500.00 written to the left of it. I am assuming that is the cost for that month to keep the lab running; (the cost of chemicals for the machines, paper for printing photos, etc.). At that time I made $6.00 an hour, and worked 20 hours a week, as did two other employees. The manager of the lab makes $17.50 and works 50 hours a week.
If you do the math Eckerds pays out $5,000 a month in wages to the photo workers; $500 for myself and two other employees and $3,500 to the manager, leaving them with a nice profit of $6700 a month, which is just one lab of well over one thousdand locations.
Now, if you were to add up the total hours worked by all employees (including the manager) and divide the Gross profit, minus the cost of running the lab, you will find the amount of wealth produced by a worker in an hour. In this case the formula looks like this: $16,200.00 - $4500.00 = 11,700.00/440 = $26.60. The wealth we create every hour is worth $26.00, yet I was being paid $6.00. Every hour I was being robbed of $20.60. Just a friendly reminder of why those capitalists have such nice fancy cars and houses.
Samuel Lynbrook,
August 2001
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