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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Sep 2, 2008 05:16
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:33:43 -0700, Fred Weiss wrote:
> What we desperately need in this country is not a "Labor Day".
We do not have a Labor Day. We have a holiday which is called Labor Day.
So, no worry here.
> It is not
> "labor" which has produced the vast wealth of this country and its
> extraordinary standard of living.
It certainly is. you can call it any system you want but it is labor that
underpins all of them. The extraordinary standard of living you speak of
has as more to do with the Union movement, WWI, WWII.. and all wars
since, and of course the system of Debt.
It was WWII that pulled Capitalism out of ruination. It was organized
Labor that was more responsible for what is called the Middle Class of
today. That, and the land itself. Today we can see the results of the
Middle Class deterioration as Labor has lost political influence in no
small part due to the power of The Federal Government and Organized Crime
which now has a near free hand in the Unions.
> We've always had "labor". Men have
> plodded into fields eeking out a subsistence existence down through the
> millenia.
Equated labor with with 'eeking' and 'subsistence living' is forced. I
can just as well equate 'Capitalism', Child Labor, War and slavery.
> It is capitalism which we should be celebrating - which has
> finally liberated men from this kind of existence
No problem there. With all the public money that is being used today,
once again to prop up this system of capitalism, the question really is:
what day isn't it being celebrated?
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