Labor Day

Here is a description of Labor Day that I downloaded from the US Department of Labor website:


"Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country."

It is an articulate little description, but let us break it down. It is a tribute to the working movement who built this country. I am radically pro-capitalist, pro-indiviudalism and for individual initiative.

I am also a blue collar worker and intellectual that has worked with his hands since 1968. I would be deeply honored to be remembered as the blue collar philosopher representing the baby boomer generation, following in the brilliant, decent, agnostic foot steps of that mentor that I never met, Eric Hoffer.

A close friend wanted to drive me to San Francisco in 1975 to meet Hoffer, but I declined. Instinctively, I have always known that my caliber and brand of great loneliness and great-souled lonerism would affront some great, kindred  spirit who would resist me, and play hostiles games.

Forty years later, I have found that most of my early intuitions about people and movements have, for the most part, proven accurate.

Labor Day celebrates the social and economic achievements of the American workers, and so it does. We need not be lachrymose and patronizing about those millions of laborers that get it done, and keep the country running every day.

I would like to reach out to all workers, regardless of the color of their shirts, to treat those in the organization below you in your organization if education, compensation, and organizational esteem, with dignity, respect, courtesy and gratitude.

I would encourage all blue collar workers to join the Tea Party, join the Republican Party, join the NAGR, vote for Trump, but push Cruz on him through Senate action to move him away from the RINO Establishment, self-realize, become supercitizens, etc. These social and political achievements would prove lasting and worthy.

Getting back to the Department of Labor quote, they write that Labor Day constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

Our workers have contributed mightily to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our nation. This is why the Obamaist recession, and paltry recovery, is so socially and economically crippling with 94 millions Americans not working, not prosperous, not adding to the well-being of our nation. This cycle of unemployment and dependency of huge, centralized government handouts must end.