Posted on 09/07/2015 9:23:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan
To all our American readers, Happy Labor Day! And to all our Canadian readers, Happy Labour Day!
That's what the day used to be about: putting the "u" in Labor. You can't spell labour without you, and without you and your labour this planet would be a primitive state of nature, red in tooth and claw. Consider the words of Peter J McGuire, General Secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, proposing the very first Labor Day a mere century-and-a-third ago. The new day would be an occasion, he said, to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold".
What a crazy! All the grandeur we behold comes from man and his work? What fossil fuel is he inhaling? Today, rude nature is the state we aspire to, and you can't even delve and carve a Keystone pipeline underneath it, out of sight. Labor itself, in the sense Mr McGuire used the term, is morally dubious among our elites, and, down at the other end, simply unknown. A statistic from my book After America, personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available from the SteynOnline bookstore and which help support my campaign against Nobel fraud Michael Mann's rude nature, into which I hope to be carving a hearty "up yours"...
Whoops, sorry. Where was I? Ah, yes. A quote from After America:
One fifth of British children are raised in homes in which no adult works. Just under 900,000 people have been off sick for over a decade, claiming "sick benefits", week in, week out for ten years and counting.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The Constitution should be taught in schools. It used to be, we need to teach it again.
Yes. But in order to teach the Constitution, you pretty much have to teach the reasons for its provisions. And to do that, you have to teach a whole lot of history. IMHO.
Not to mention such peripheral subjects as Reading.
Love this...
“What a crazy! All the grandeur we behold comes from man and his work? What fossil fuel is he inhaling? Today, rude nature is the state we aspire to, and you can’t even delve and carve a Keystone pipeline underneath it, out of sight.”
Just so true.
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