Depends on how you define "labor."

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Tom Brosz — 5/4/2005 7:33:20 PM (archived)

If it includes mental factors, like innovation, intelligence, creativity, persistence, and ambition, you'd be right.

Sheer physical work stopped being the underpinnnings of the modern economy a long time ago.

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Question for Tom (and other's)...... - Publius - 5/1/2005 11:43:44 PM
- some speculative answers - phil - 5/2/2005 6:22:45 PM
  - re: some speculative answers - Publius - 5/3/2005 12:58:35 AM
    - Turn it all over to the politicians, then. - Tom Brosz - 5/3/2005 4:36:11 AM
    - re: some speculative answers - p - 5/3/2005 1:41:13 AM
- The fact that there are so few operating refineries probably is the biggest factor. - Scott Evil - 5/2/2005 3:01:33 PM
- A few answers - Tom Brosz - 5/2/2005 1:04:08 AM
  - Thank you, but........ - Publius - 5/2/2005 6:35:11 PM
    - re: Thank you, but........ - gbaikie - 5/2/2005 9:07:44 PM
      - In Tennessee, 40 cents of the price per gallon is tax. - Lee - 5/3/2005 7:45:00 AM
        
        Interesting, would this stop....... - Publius - 5/3/2005 1:31:42 PM
        
        Energy is the life's blood of an economy. - Lee - 5/4/2005 7:32:43 AM
        
        Actually Lee it is labor that is the lifeblood of an economy. - Scott Evil - 5/4/2005 2:59:14 PM
        
        And labor sets idle without raw materials, components, and goods. - Lee - 5/5/2005 3:03:11 AM
        
        Depends on how you define "labor." - Tom Brosz - 5/4/2005 7:33:20 PM

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