It's Laboring a little on Labor Day Thing

Dear America,

"Let it show on the record 

that when the American people 

cried out for economic help, 

Jimmy Carter took refuge 

behind a dictionary. 

Well if it’s a definition -- 

if it's a definition he wants, 

I’ll give him one.  

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.  

A depression is when you lose yours. 

And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."

Ronald Reagan, Labor Day 1980

whole speech go here --

thank you American Rhetoric.com

It's Labor Day; what a splendid day to look at the labor market:

Here's the final word from Hot Air's Ed Morrisey, posted August 31st, simply titled The McJob Recovery:

"The data shows that even the paltry job creation of the Obama recovery has done little to advance the economy.  Businesses won’t invest in job-creating activities that require more expensive labor until they can reliably calculate future costs, which in this regulatory and tax environment, they cannot do.  That’s why companies are sitting on their capital, and why we won’t get anything but McJobs in significant numbers until those policies change.  The only thing we can get with this job-creation environment is fries with our meal."

and let's get real, we can't even get fries....thanks to Michelle, it comes with apples slices, fries cost extra.

Businesses must be able to form a business plan looking forward, at the very least, five years.  Businesses can't even do this simple simon step because of living in an environment of a sea of unknowns -- or KNOWNS that scare the beegeesus out of them:  health care costs, looming higher taxation, cost of living and commodities skyrocketing, pending market collapse with the dollar going down with it, inflation...


Here are the facts scooped up by Morrisey:

"Today, the Obama administration keeps claiming to have added 4.3 million jobs by choosing to start from February 2010 rather than the start of the recovery in June 2009 or the passage of Barack Obama’s stimulus package in February 2009.  The Obama recovery in full has only added less than 65,000 jobs per month, far below the level needed to keep up with population growth (125K-150K per month), and the civilian population participation rate has fallen to a 30-year low this spring."

This administration fudges with the real jobs numbers just as they play Go Fish with the real Unemployment numbers  -- it's a kid's meal 300 million served.

And yet upon this Labor Day weekend, the chocolate shake runs deeper than that.   For we have a president who continues to chime a message even more troublesome than the hamburglar himself; it's a message tossed into the political fryer claiming "if you're successful, you didn't get there on your own."



It's just dripping with smacks of greasy, envious, class warfare in order to set the new temperature for fundamental transformation in America by attacking anyone of salt-of-the-earth beginnings  -- who happened to ultimately -- with a whole lot of toil, trouble and labor -- amass some kind of wealth.

There have been numerous stories from people who have "made it" claiming to have started at a drive-thru window taking orders for Ray Kroc.  Ray Kroc created the opportunity for MILLIONS of Americans and foreigners alike to get their first job.   Some made a career out of it, while for some, it was just a stepping stone before laboring somewhere else.

Ray didn't start out with billions served and thousands of restaurants; he began in one location with the first customer and it led him down a path no one could ever fully imagine, even for Ray.  A burger empire was created and it made real jobs in the private sector.  Government can't buy -- or borrow -- this kind of success; matter of fact, even if they were to try  to duplicate it, it would cost exponentially more.

So when President Obama also adds remarks to last week's Republican Convention, saying it was so Victorian and all, so "better suited for the last century," perhaps we are seeing the real campaigner-in-chief show his true despise for this great country of ours, let alone the people -- the greatest generation -- that built it.

Gary DeMar of Godfather Politics writes a wonderful expose, President Obama Slams the Greatest Generation, highlighting recent Obama rhetoric:

"It was a rerun. We’d seen it before. You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV. . . If you didn’t DVR it, let me recap it for you. Everything is bad, it’s Obama’s fault, and Gov. Romney is the only one who knows the secret to creating jobs and growing the economy"

The President actually continues saying, "you might as well of seen it on a black and white TV..."   ooooh burn as he helps himself to a little chuckle...

Gary does a fine job returning to the labors of the greatest generation; a generation often characterized by sacrifice, ingenuity, strength, ambition, humility, and grace.  While history proves this generation made America into the industrialized and compassionate nation we see today (or perhaps the one a decade ago), one certainly worthy of the entire world's respect.  [Read his whole piece, if you will, and admire the perspective for just a moment or two.]

Here's a thought, Mr. President, so when you say, "if you're successful, you didn't get there on your own" -- does that mean the converse is also true?  If you're UN-successful, did you get there on your own?"  It's a good question.

So our American president is poking fun at the ideals of yesteryear and clearly highlighted in last week's convention; choosing ridicule rather than running on his own merits.

He never should have skipped Business Advertising 101; or better yet, maybe he should have worked at a McDonald's for awhile [there is rumor he worked at a Baskin Robbins circa 1978; which is weird, as I worked at BR same time frame...so I won't go throwing mud pie in his eye just yet].

But seriously, we don't see McDonald's advertising for their Big Macs by saying outright that 'the King's Whoopers suck.'

Mickey D's has to run on it's own merits, it's own product, it's own special sauce and that's it -- and it all rests in the hands of the people and the Law of Competition and Compensation, with a whole lot of Labor of Love in force.

Most of us look back to our first jobs with appreciation, a kinship with all those who follow after us, and a strange connection to the whole.  We all have to start somewhere.  Mr. Kroc gave too many to really count an opportunity -- and that is not only the American way -- it is a commodity that is to this day, priceless!

Republicans see an opportunity to get America's labor market back to laboring by driving America's ideals and principles and values all the live long day. 

It's like a drive-thru up in here...one ideal after another...one principle after another...one value after another....

Sure, call it old-fashioned, Mr. President. Go ahead -- and make my labor day.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's To Where America We Belong Thing

"Every opinion reacts on him who utters it." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dear America,

“President Obama, this is your army...

 We are ready to march. 

Let’s take these sons of bitches out 

and take America back 

to an America where we belong."  

Jimmy Hoffa Jr.

And isn't it just peachy that Jimmy Sr. had a son.  And, by the way, that is precisely what he said ..."this is your army...ready to march...let's take these sons of bitches out...to take America back to an America where we belong."  Making clear that "working people" like "a good fight" -- he said.


Hoffa Jr. was the warm up band (of one) before Obama spoke before a delegation of Detroit workers, laborers, countrymen.  And when Obama got up to speak, he said he was awfully proud...appreciating the kind, thoughtful words from every single one of them:

"The president of the Metropolitan Detroit Central Labor Council, our host, Saundra Williams.  (Applause.)  AFL-CIO president, Rich Trumka.  (Applause.)  President of the Michigan AFL-CIO, Mark Gaffney.  (Applause.)  And some proud sons and daughters of Michigan representing working people here and across the country -- SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, UAW President Bob King, Utility Workers President Mike Langford.  (Applause.)  We are proud of them and we're proud of your congressional delegation who are working every single day with your state and local elected officials to create jobs and economic growth and prosperity here in Michigan and all across the country." 

...just a little something something pulled from a post by Kerry Picket, Blogger around the Washington Times Water Cooler (the bold face, above, was all Picket).

So, like I said, he was awfully proud because He Said he was proud. -- over and over again.

Are we not all laborers?


What is so special about these laborers?

Is it their dues?  Is it the filling of the coffers to fuel the perpetuation of a lie?  Is it all about the army against the "sons of bitches" that they make? 

But what about the language in and of itself? Isn't somebody going to say something about this?
 
What about what Emerson gives us, that little something proudly highlighted at the top?

Emerson, in his essay simply titled Compensation, sets it all up:

"Human labor, through all of its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.  Everywhere and always this law is sublime.  The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price, and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get anything without its price, is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all action and reaction of nature."

It may be age old.  It may be old-fashioned. It may be so yesterday; but the truth is, we reap what we sow, people.

In both word and deed, we reap; our every opinion, our every right or wrong action, whatever it is that we do or say comes right back upon us like a boomerang.  It is according to a higher, natural law that no man can put asunder. bam. it is done. just like that. and now, it comes back even faster...thanks to high speed internet.

Our president had a chance to be every man's president, but he didn't take it did he?

Nope.

He chose to be a president for the workers of the world -- not all workers, laborers, countrymen and women of 'America we belong,' mind you -- just a few, the union label proud.  Or like our own vice president reiterated in another Labor Day appearance [addressing the AFL-CIO in Ohio], and evidently perfectly mindful of the workers who carry a certain natural magnificence over and above the rest...

"You are the only folks keeping the barbarians from the gates. You are the only non-governmental power. The only one who has the power and capacity to stop this onslaught."

 ...you know, against the sons of bitches in the Tea Party.
...now you see how we are all connected?

For more on that, you can go here.

"We" are the sons of bitches and barbarians now; "they" are all perfect ladies and gentlemen, by example.

Hoffa says we are at war; Biden says he is dead serious, that this is not a joke; while President Obama is just  plain proud of anybody and everybody who is on his side.  The only thing the rest of us need to do now is bend over and take it -- according to the liberal use of the Law of Compensation, that is.

Me thinks the Left has forgotten how America, the story of us that we belong, was made.

A revolution arose from certain injustices; we labored for each and every one of us to be free.  A fair and balanced course correction within the Law of Compensation grew from our individual self-reliance, a recognition and affirmation of our connectedness to the whole to do our share, to play our part, to labor and reap what we sow through honest-to-goodness work.

Equal Opportunity does not always equate to equal outcome.  While to continue to maneuver and to labor under such a fraud, in high hopes of manipulating such outcome -- including the out-put and out-take, outward and onward --  is the real tragedy.  And it is not the America we belong.

Good thing the Tea Party has grown resilient to the tirades of free radicals.  As a matter of fact, the Tea Party comes with an inherent ability of being prepared for it, and naturally, have learned to profit from scalding hot attacks filled to the brim.  Some might even say we revel in it -- we remarkably have the insane mobility to float, steep, eat, pray, love in such an environment.  For deep down, we appreciate the notion that 'every opinion reacts on him who utters it.'

peace be with you Hoffa, Biden, Obama, and any laborer who seems akin to easily align.

Make it a Good Day, G
really, do it.  this is not a joke.  this is not a joke. this is not an applause line...make it a good day.