Well…this little thought popped into my head earlier today and I thought I’d put it down here before I forget it…if this year is anything like every year, Labor day will bring another walk by the governor across the Mackinac bridge here in Michigan…and with that, you will hear him lie and say that labor is the thing that built our country and is the most important thing that will get it moving again…just don’t believe a word of it coming from Snyder…he does not believe a word of it no matter if it’s true…this idiot is responsible for the biggest attack on organized labor in the history of the state; the right to work for less law that was rammed through the legislature in a lame duck session, and one that Snyder said during his election campaign that he did not support…just more and more lies that come out of the repubs here in Michigan…then we have the transfer of wealth from retired workers to the CEO’s of the major corporations with the huge tax cuts for them while taxes are raised on us, the workers…so, whenever you hear Snyder or any other repub talking about their respect for labor…you can tell it’s a lie if their lips are moving….geez…
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A short comment on Labor Day…
Well…since it is Labor Day, I think it’s appropriate that I comment on the role of labor in our society and what I see as the demonization of labor, and the active, organized program of the right to destroy the unions and put the worker “back in their place”. One of the assertions that is always made by the new robber barons is the reason for moving jobs offshore is that American labor just costs too much; all the while the compensation gap between the CEOs and general labor is at it’s highest point in history and the real cost of labor is the same that it was 30 years ago. So, who is it that costs too much? The question that I always ask when discussing this problem is “how much is enough?” If the CEOs would halve their pay, saving the company millions, then how many workers could be retained? Is the man (or woman) at the top worth hundreds of workers?
I think we are now seeing the true cost of the hollowing out of the middle class and the elevation of the CEO and banker to godlike status….and the scapegoating of labor for all of the ills in the economy…it is time for us to stand up and say enough…without the American worker and consumers there would be no economy for the right to distort; there would be no money for business to steal, and this wouldn’t be the great country that it is. Let’s hope there is still a reason to have a Labor Day next year….