Monday, September 2, 2013

Labor Day

Ah, yes. The day we rest and take time out to reflect on the social and economic achievements of American workers. Let's take a look at a few of them.

Unions have priced themselves out of a job and want to blame everybody but THEM. Pension packages can't be sustained, trade for their products is down because the bottom line is so high, and cities like Detroit look like Baghdad after 'shock and awe'.

Fast food joints are under fire because their CEO's went to college, got a degree, worked their way up the ladder and now make squillions of dollars. Their workers have low paying jobs that were never meant to be family sustaining or career oriented, yet they want to be paid where a hamburger and fries will cost as much as a meal in a sit-down restaurant.

American workers are being forced to pay for those who won't, and for some reason the government thinks every lazy sycophant in this country needs to be taken care of on our backs. We have to pay for their housing, their food, their clothes, their pre-natal and post-natal care as they pop kid after kid into the world. We have to pay for everybody's medical care and dental care and eye care and anal care. And don't ever be so racist as to mention that before anyone gets welfare they have to take a drug test!

Millions of Americans live in economically depressed cities and instead of taking on the American pioneer mentality and pulling up stakes to build a new life where it's not so bad, they would rather march and protest and call on the government to take care of them. People are so ensconced into their comfort zone they don't think they should ever have to leave it. I'm glad the first settlers here didn't think like that. I'm sure the Indians wish they had.

What is your lot in the American workforce? Are you even IN the American work force? When you look at your paycheck, does it make you want to celebrate your economic achievements? If not, then do something about it and don't wait on the government. All we are to them is cattle to feed on by extracting more and more from the rewards we earn by the sweat of our brow.

Instead of whining about racial inequality, economic disparity and social indifference...pick yourself up, put on your work boots and strive for what you want and believe you deserve. This is still the land of opportunity for those who will work for it. For those who lay around waiting for it to come to them, they are the arsenic in the pie who suck the juice from the fruit of our labor. We are spiraling, in flames, down to the pit of becoming a nanny state. Yet, there are people out there who still poo-poo that things are bad or will get worse. They live in a bubble of contentment that will soon be burst by the very ones they trust in.

So, have fun today at your bar-b-que and beach party. You should, if you earned it. If you got the meat through food stamps? You're welcome.

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