Posted on 06/17/2021 9:25:13 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Today @POTUS will sign the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, establishing June 19th as a federal holiday. As the 19th falls on a Saturday, most federal employees will observe the holiday tomorrow, June 18th.
It may be comical to film people trying to go to the bank on a Friday afternoon at 3pm for weekend stuff and see their reactions
If I had urgent banking to take care of on a Friday afternoon and they were closed for something I never heard about I would be pissed...
“National Independence Day”??
By law, banks may only be closed for two days in a row.
Full time government employee:
“Hey, stop grumbling about the day off. Nobody here I know was actually working hard anyway. Chill.”
This is why they can close early on Friday without violating the law!
I think many people would be surprised to find the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in those states in rebellion against the United State.
Commemorating when the Republicans freed the slaves of the Democrats.
We may need a booster shot.
Transcript of the Proclamation
January 1, 1863
A Transcription
By the President of the United States of America:
A Proclamation.
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:
“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
“That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States.”
Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
I think many people would be surprised to find the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in those states in rebellion against the United State.
I’m sure someone along the way has done calculations as to how much one federal holiday cost the working American taxpayer. I imagine it’s a pretty tidy sum of money.
Gee, and just yesterday my wife was asking “Will we get mail on that day?”
Government employees would celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday if it meant a day off with pay.
Is this new “holiday” for everyone or just for slaves who were never slaves but behave as if they were victims of slavery? Seems to me to be a legitimate question.
All because Trump originally scheduled a rally on it last year.
How long before we “celebrate” Mao’s birthday?
Fake holiday for fake workers
The same Federal Freeloaders who have been getting paid for doing nothing for 15 months?
Blacks have two holidays, Hispanics have none.
Perverts don’t have any holidays to honor them.
This lefty clusterf*&^ is just getting started...
I believe we save money when vainglorious and power mad bureaucrats are idle.
Actually, with all those millions of federal “workers” at home, that is one less day for mischief and theft of our money. I’d be happy to pay them to stay home 365 days every year. It would be FAR, FAR cheaper than having them “work” to destroy our lives and freedoms.
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