Happy Labor Day

[bae]

Hope y'all had a good holiday.

[lizii]

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I think that Obama had sincere intentions of running the USA in complete honesty in returning your country to its' former profitable status, but how can he possibly get it done when Republicans fight him every step of the way?

He couldn't even get your health care sorted out thanks to the Republicans. Why did the Republicans not want good health care?

Yes, he did fail, but at least he tried.

[SteveinMN]

I hope everyone who believes unions are corrupt wastes of time, energy, and money was working yesterday...

[Gregg]

This greedy, profit seeking, reptilian sociopathic of a capitalist had a great day partying with some other American Brahmans. New recipe resulted in the best potato salad I've ever made. Who needs unions when you have bacon?

[peggy]

Well, this liberal, who apparently blames everything on the poor, misunderstood billionaires (who are, evidently, the only really good guys in this little drama, nudge-nudge wink-wink) spent the evening listening to some old school rock and eating fried fish. Who needs a stinking union when you are independently wealthy! Party on!

[LDAHL]

See what you get, Bae, for posting such an inflammatory statement?

[ApatheticNoMore]

I hope everyone who believes unions are corrupt wastes of time, energy, and money was working yesterday...

I don't believe so, I try not to shop on holidays out of what do you think? Protest and solidarity . While some work is critical (drug stores perhaps, hospitals of course), I believe most more than deserve their break from crazy workaholic culture. Though personally, I did end up having to do some work yesterday yes.

[catherine]

I thought the cartoon was funny.. and a little too true.

[CathyA]

"Who needs unions when you have bacon?" LOL Gregg!

[SteveinMN]

While some work is critical (drug stores perhaps, hospitals of course), I believe most more than deserve their break from crazy workaholic culture. Though personally, I did end up having to do some work yesterday yes.

Actually, I long ago decided that, if I was shopping at a store on Holiday X for their big Holiday X Sale, someone was working on the holiday to serve me as a shopper. That seemed contrary to purpose for me, so I only buy what I must on holidays. Yesterday I was on the road, so I ended up purchasing a quickie-mart sandwich and a bottle of water and that's it.

But the point in posting my comment was that Labor Day is widely enjoyed as a vacation day for most Americans when, in fact, it was created by union members to honor the working (wo)man. I would think consistency would demand that anyone who finds unions useless in the scheme of work (their names are legion) would find it no more appropriate to observe Labor Day than it would be for a Muslim to observe Easter or an American to observe Bolivian Independence Day. It's really easy to accept the benefits unions have brought to our workplace. It seems to be a little more difficult in our current political environment to admit that maybe -- just maybe -- there absolutely is some worker exploitation going on.

By the way, bae, I thought the cartoon was dead on. Thank you for posting it!