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A big group is throwing a Veterans Celebration this weekend. They are renting out the largest park in the city and bringing in big corporate sponsors all to celebrate the American Veteran.
I am all for recognizing, thanking, and celebrating our veterans and our soldiers still in uniform, and even in encouraging young people to take up that honorable call, but this is Labor Day Weekend.
Should I be upset that the celebration of the worker is being covered up by yet another celebration of the soldier.
I mean is this not the reason for Memorial Day? Labor Day? Veteran's Day? Armistice Day? Flag Day? The USMC Birthday?
If we need another celebration does it have to cover up Labor Day?
I can see why it was chosen, with out resulting to anti-Labor paranoia.
Nobody was using the holiday anyway.
In a society where the bosses and owners proudly protest "We DID Do It OURSELVES!" where is there room for the worker? Where is there room for acknowledging their effort, their sweat, their time and toil?
In a world where the fact that Unionized Labor in the public sphere has created better pay and better benefits than that achievable in the private sphere, results not in the call to bring back unions to get those better benefits in the private sphere, but to gut the unions in the public sphere so all workers are equally powerless, where is there room for a labor holiday?
It is time that we spend this Labor Day remembering what Labor is, who the workers are, and how we built this country.
Remember, no Football Team Owner ever won a Football Game. Several have lost them, but none has ever won a game.
No Baseball Team Owner ever hit a grand slam home run. It takes a baseball player to do that.
See, Owners who make mistakes can lose companies, lose profits, and lose jobs. But it takes a worker to make something, to make anything, including a profit.
There is a lot of talk about Job Providers, and how they have to be coddled and bribed to bring jobs to employees.
We are not employees. An employee puts on their list of accomplishments--"I was employed today."
Just like the bosses say they are Investors, they put on their list of accomplishments "I invested today."
We are workers. We put on our list of accomplishments--"I worked." That is all we need to say. That should be enough.
And if there is not a job for us to do? If we are unemployed we suffer. Why? Did we stop working on our own? No, the Investors let us down. The Job Providers decided they didn't want us to work any more.
What is a Job Provider if he no longer provides a job? The same thing as a worker who doesn't work.
Yet the unemployed worker puts on their accomplishment list "I tried to work today."
Does the Job Provider put on their list "I tried to provide a job today?" Or do they put "I invested somewhere else today."
To those business owners who do try to provide jobs, I say thank you.
Company Owners and Managers are like Generals. There are three types. There are the General Jacksons, who lead their employees, who work with them through the sweat and through the toil. There are the General Eisenhowers who sit back in their ward rooms and move around the lives of thousands. Then there are the idiots.
The Republicans love showing the General Jacksons who do much of their building themselves.
The Democrats fear the General Eisenhowers and the Idiots who think they are Eisenhowers, who for short sited gains, and investment profits, sacrifice their troops.
So if we are going to have a veteran's celebration this Labor Day Weekend, lets celebrate the troops, and not the Generals.
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