Labor-less Day

We celebrate Labor Day today...but with the unemployment rates sky high and jobs exported faster than "made in China" is printed on all products at Wal-Mart, well, what is the celebration about? I mean I was happy to get off, but more than ecstatic to get back on Tuesday. The President is taking a whipping for the economy-job losses-and the like but he cannot do much about it. He is just one man and actually he cannot even pass legislation-that is Congress' job. The problem with some of our Congressmen is that they are more concerned with re-election than doing what is right...at least that is in my opinion.

A change in party wont change the rules of this game. If the corporations truly wield the power, and let's just call them Labor, which drives both the wages and use of the worker, than Labor day is no more than a day to celebrate the corporation and its inherent control over the people...or the workers of the world. Now before I begin to get off on a Marxist tangent, there has to be a relationship between business, government and the people in any society...most specifically one that is driven by capital. However, in this relationship here in America, the power is held by business-more or less regulated by government and the people, well, their say is limited to a representative who has nothing in common with the average man (woman). As stated the rules of the game have nothing to do with a party-they will exist regardless of what you name the factions folks fall into.

The major problem is that the people are ignorant-in part because they wish to be and in part because the system is so complicated that it cannot be explained in layman's terms, and thus, most being laymen, they will never know the true nature of the system we dwell within. Even as unemployment is discussed, the fact that many businesses have taken their manufacturing arm to foreign countries because of the cost of labor has not been discussed. People speak of it in an anecdotal way, but not with numbers and graphs and charts like they do everything else.

Then we have the Wal-Marts of the world...where Americans choose to buy their goods. Most of the merchandise is not created here in America-so the dollar goes to Wal-Mart then leaves the American economy almost in an instant...but the people cry for jobs and spend their unemployment compensation on goods made in China. Ignorance is always held as a negative term, and it incites anger. Shame that truth does not give rise to the same emotions, for if the truth is that the ignorance of America will lead to her demise then why are we lying to the people? Acting as if pouring money into Wall Street will save the guy on Main Street...Wall Street is concerned with capital, not humanity. Labor is pre-occupied with the same, yet we celebrate it as if the worker should lay praise to the machine.

The greatest trick the devil ever played was to make you think he did not exist.