A Labor Day Message for Congress - Abolish Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day.

It's really too bad that Labor Day is now only a joke; a joke that the wealthy play on the middle class and the poor in America. Millions in this country are without decent paying jobs and 47 million are without health insurance. Every day more and more American jobs are sent overseas or given to illegal immigrants so that the rich can get even richer. Now, Mexican trucks will endanger our national security while transporting goods around this country, again taking away even more American jobs. What does Congress do about the injustices heaped upon hard working Americans? Congress does NOTHING!

Instead, Congress will once again try to pass laws increasing the fraudulent H1-B programs, giving away even more jobs to the foreign countries that Congress works for. No doubt Congress will again pursue amnesty for illegal aliens and pass laws that will throw our borders open to even more invading illegals from Mexico and other countries. Meanwhile, Congress will pass more tax cuts for the rich while cutting wages and benefits for those few Americans who still have decent jobs. Congress will continue to weaken union representation and gut the last few workers right provisions.

I ask Congress this: why not just admit that the American government is completely against American Labor and that Congress hates the American worker. Why not abolish the Labor Day holiday? After all, even our President can't stand to be in the country on Labor Day. Congress should show a rare bit of honesty and get rid of this meaningless holiday. Think of all the cost savings that corporate America would reap with one less holiday. What a boon this would be to the bottom line. And after all, that's all that really matters, isn't it?

After the Bridge, Can We Repair Our Society?

The simple fact, now obvious to all but the completely blind, is that the wealthy have gutted this country to the point that we can no longer even support our infrastructure. Mindless adoration of greed has left us with a country where no one wants to do any job that will not make them a millionaire in six months. Those who do those jobs get the shaft and then rich people mount disdain upon them. We've created a culture where work is for suckers.

Our economy is crashing under the weight of thieves who steal and then respond that their victims simply should have been more careful. Our laws now provide cover for this thievery and punish those who object to being ripped off. Fixing bridges won't buy anyone a new yacht, so you can bet it will still be a low priority, even after this tragedy.

Insurance companies are some of the worst thieves. No doubt they will respond to this incident by canceling the policies of anyone who has to cross a bridge to get to work. These same companies have already destroyed the health care system. I'm pretty sure we can solve the entire health care "crisis" by simply jailing the lot of them and distributing their bloated wealth to the medical community so they can actually provide MEDICAL services.

The wealthy have demanded and received tax cuts. In return they promised more jobs and better services. None of those things have materialized. Personally, I'm ready to vote for the first candidate that shouts "No New Tax Cuts!" Privatization lines the pockets of the rich but solves no problems. What kind of fool does one have to be to think that a corporate mindset will support the needs of a society? Bridges and roads and health care are not profitable, rather they are necessities. They don't increase stock prices or provide golden parachutes, instead they support a healthy and safe society. No corporation is ever going to solve the day to day problems faced by a democratic society. As has often been said, "A corporation is not a democracy." Why then are we letting them run this one?

We live in a country that creates nothing. Today's new wealth is created by lies and theft, by cutting necessities, and by taking jobs away from people who need them to support their families. Corporate leaders mismanage their companies and then punish workers who had no control over the bungling boardroom. Lives are lost on a daily basis so that the wealthy can buy bigger cars and bigger houses and ravenously devour far more than their fair share of our resources. Believe me, they will continue preying upon us just as long as we fail to defend ourselves.