I Am Not A “Worker”

The Houston Conservative/MND ^ | Friday, February 03, 2006 | Will Malven

[ChadGore]

Great post. Interesting read so far.

[Lazamataz]

Perhaps.

But are you a comrade?

[darkwing104]

I don't care about what I am called as long as I get paid for doing a day's work.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Nasty McPhilthy]

I don't care what you call me, just don't call me late for dinner!

[sheana]

Ahhh but the point is.......to our government we are nothing but workers. We are nothing but a source of revenue, votes, and power to them. I don't think the average politician gives a crap about we the workers. They haven't in a very long time.

[untenured]

I've thought this for years. An associate lawyer or a medical intern, or for that matter a small-business owner, working 80-hour weeks is every bit as much a "working person" as a factory worker.

And for that matter "capitalism" itself is, I assume, a term Marx coined.

"And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as 'meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government.' Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me--the free man and woman of this country--as 'the masses.' This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America.

- Ronald Reagan, "A Time for Choosing."

[Ostlandr]

Given the number of people in this country who have never done the proverbial 'honest day's work' in their entire lives, I'm proud to be called a worker. I actually like that better than "cube rat."

But I understand the author's point; we need to get past the demagoguery that brought us both Communism and such terrorist organizations as the Molly MacGuires.

"Workers of the world, unite, and join the Revolution! You have nothing to lose but your chains."
Yeah, right. I work for a living, and you don't see shackle scars on my wrists or ankles.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

That was brilliant.

[Reeses]

foment anger and resentment

The correct word for this is envy, the evil force behind leftism.

[raybbr]

It is time for those of us on the Right to choose a new vocabulary.

I am tired using the vocabulary of the Left. I am especially talking about the ubiquitous use of the term “workers,” which is a Marxist term. It has been selected consciously by the press and the Left because of that origin and the connotations it carries with it.

I have never considered myself as a “worker.” Ants are workers, drones are workers, people are employees, or if they have a trade they are artisans, craftsmen, or tradesmen.

The true synonyms for “worker” are proletarian (or “prol” for short), serf, or slave. The Left needs these associated meanings to promulgate the implications that current labor laws and conditions of employment are inherently unfair to those who are not in management.

And then this:

...Perhaps we should spend less time worrying about what to call someone or some group and more time trying to decide how best to help them.

A bit of schizophrenia there.

What better term could there be? We all work.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

I work at being a Millwright.

[operation clinton cleanup]

"Working Families" always bothers me...

[frithguild]

Marx has defined "capitalism" in terms of every "failure" of a free market, so there is no way to argue in favor of capitalism. Dialectics 101 - define your enemy's terms.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

one of the truly nefarious costs holding General Motors (and all the other domestic manufacturers) back is the UAW's job banks. Created in the mid-1980s, the Job Opportunity Bank Security system pays eligible workers as much as 95% of their salary plus all health and pension benefits until they are eligible to retire.” 5,000 of the UAW members in the Jobs Bank are GM employees and Delphi Corporation has 4,000

NPR had a story on the GM job banks just the other day.

They made it a point to talk to community groups where the 'job banks' people spend time helping with maintenance repairs, setting up stage props, etc.

The message seemed to be that it would really hurt these communities if they lost all the 'free' time donated by Job Bank people.

Nice socialist slant. Can't figure out why NPR doesn't also pay a few thousand people to do nothing for NPR.

/sarcasm

[Wiseghy]

I used to work with SEIU reps who constantly referred to their members as "the workers". They are paleolithic socialists, who still have tremendous political power.

[Racehorse]

I have never considered myself as a “worker.” Ants are workers, drones are workers, people are employees, or if they have a trade they are artisans, craftsmen, or tradesmen.

Remember a newly assigned lieutenant who annoyingly referred to her enlisted people as "worker bees."

The wing commander put an end to it the afternoon he introduced her to his staff. 

"This is Lieutenant Knowsnothing.  She works for Chief Brownshoe.  If she listens and applies herself, the Chief just might make something of her."

She did and he did.

[USS Alaska]

The first leaders {and their philosophy} of the modern demonRAT party.
The demonRAT plank is taken from these two communist's losers views.
Don't take my word, google communist manifesto and read it for yourself.
Then review the demonRAT's socialists writings and compare.

[Ostlandr]

Hey, no arguement from me. I have read the Manifesto (along with Mein Kampf and many other "forbidden" works.)

Communism is a failed experiment, despite the whining of the Left that "It just hasn't been done correctly yet."
Only a modern capitalist society could have produced such a surplus of goods and services that these two idiots would have had the leisure to sit around and dream up such unmitigated nonsense.
Your average Liberal has never had to live under a Communist society, and so has no idea what they're embracing. Just as "he who has never known fear, has never known courage" those who have never known oppression can never truly savor freedom.

My favorite quote from Marx is "Never trust a Russian; once a Russian gets his hand in, everything turns to (expletive deleted.)"
If he only knew. . .