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Labor Day: A Capitalist Holiday
Frontpagemag.com ^ | September 5, 2016 | Mathew Vadum

Posted on 09/05/2016 3:56:07 AM PDT by Biggirl

Almost no one pays tribute to the American labor movement on Labor Day nowadays because America, despite its leftward drift in recent years, is not a nation that exalts brawn over brains or socialism over capitalism. Americans don’t care about President Obama’s final Labor Day message, a mixture of facts and well-worn leftist propaganda. “For generations, every time the economy changed, hardworking Americans marched and organized and joined unions to demand not simply a bigger paycheck for themselves, but better conditions and more security for the folks working next to them, too,” Obama said in his weekly address.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitalist; laborday; left

1 posted on 09/05/2016 3:56:07 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

The man can’t even be human and deliver an inspiring message without dropping socialist verbiage and ideology into it can he?


2 posted on 09/05/2016 4:05:09 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Biggirl

“...hardworking Americans...bigger paycheck...for the folks”

It particularly galls me when this man patronizes Americans with this lunch-bucket drivel. 6th grade level platitudes...


3 posted on 09/05/2016 4:24:41 AM PDT by SeƱor Presidente
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To: Biggirl

Capitalist? No.

Labor = communist

As shown by every “labor” party worldwide.


4 posted on 09/05/2016 7:12:22 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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