Working themselves into an early grave

Working themselves into an early grave

by digby

Here are some statistics on the lazy American worker who could get rich if she only worked as hard as Mitt Romney:

American workers are putting in more and more hours each week, as the supposedly 40-hour workweek has stretched to 47 hours. At the same time, they’re getting very little paid time off of work to recharge:


As you can see, it's going the wrong way. That's the beauty of keeping unemployment high. Makes the workers nice and docile when you take away pay and benefits.


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