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Author: Fred WeissFred Weiss Date: Sep 1, 2008 11:42
On Sep 1, 2:33Â pm, Fred Weiss papertig.com> wrote:
> What we desperately need in this country is not a "Labor Day". It is
> not "labor" which has produced the vast wealth of this country and its
> extraordinary standard of living. We've always had "labor". Men have
> plodded into fields eeking out a subsistence existence down through
> the millenia. It is capitalism which we should be celebrating - which
> has finally liberated men from this kind of existence.
By way of example, during this period from the "Homestead Strike" to
the "Ludlow Massacre" while workers were going on periodic rampages,
destroying property and getting people killed, capitalists were busy
industrializing the country and introducing one innovation after
another, including electricity, the telephone, affordable automobiles,
etc. etc - all of which proved of far, far greater benefit to
"workers" and other ordinary people than anything done by the unions
(or the labor legislation which was supposed to benefit them).
Fred Weiss
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