Pat Winstanley wrote:
> In article <bg7fl7$kt3g0$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>,
> kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com says...
>>> Unearned income, dear, unearned! ;-))
>> 
>> How is it unearned?
>> 
> 
> You didn't earn it... 

Yes, I did.

> other people did the work that earned (produced)
> the money. Or you might say your capital earned it by working for you.

Or, I might say that those people were working for me. I earned the money.

> You did not earn it because you did no work at all to get it.

No, I earned it.

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"His final words to me were: 'This time I think the Americans are
serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end.' " 
 - Ala'a Makki, the former director of Uday Hussein's television
station, on the Ace of Hearts