HAPPY LABOR DAY

I remember when Labor Day meant something. I was born during the depth of the depression and witnessed the rise of the Working Class. The unions were successful in gaining humane working conditions and decent wages for their workers. For the first time in history an ordinary working man could aspire to a middle class life style. They could send their kids to college and the next generation could become truly middle class.

The cabal fought it, of course. They first demonized union bosses. They were always pictured with scowls on their faces, and quoted to make them sound militant and uncooperative. Their suggestions were always interpreted as demands, even when asking, only, for cost of living increases.

Then they went after union members themselves. They hinted that they were being coddled and over payed. They attacked the railroads, for so called, featherbedding; keeping on workers who had lost their function due to improvements in technology. Sure there was some of that. However, the anti union forces made it sound like this was common union practice and they did nothing to help the unions deal with this dilemma. All through the fifties, sixties and seventies the anti union propaganda continued; by the eighties the unions were successfully castrated.

The sixties revolution scared the cabal. These hippie kids were mostly middle class. They could see the hypocrisy of the world and that chasing material success would not make you happy. The working class kids were still chasing the carrot on the stick and thought that new car, or whatever would bring them contentment. The kids, in the revolution, demanded freedom. The cabal could not have any of that. Middle class people have an opportunity "to see"; that's way to dangerous to the people in power.

The cabal had to find a way to put the middle class in a vise and limit access to it from the working class. In the name of freedom and equality, working class women were seduced into working. It always started out as a temporary thing; so they could buy that new boat or put a down payment on a lake cabin. Inflation trapped them in their jobs; they couldn't quit.
In a very short time, in took two wage earners to support a family and they had a lower standard of living. Do you suppose that is an accident?

To make sure that there would be no more easy access to the middle class; college tuition escalated to the point where only the rich could afford to send their kids to college. Working class and lower middle class college aspirants had to mortgage their future with huge indebtedness. Do you suppose that is an accident?

Whether it is an individual or country, debt in one of the cabals favorite means of control. In this world, we a born into debt and really never get out of it. Think of the taxes and insurance you are forced to buy, even if you have no other debt.

So when you celebrate Labor Day truly honor those whose toil brings you the things you have. All the people who handle the food you eat; the people who made your grill; the ones who molded the glasses you drink from; the folks who made the chairs you sit on; the folks who installed your electricity, plumbing and keep it going. Look around you. Every material thing you have was made with someones labor. They deserve to be honored. They deserve a dignified life.

Also know that the cabal has lost its grip. They themselves are the ones who are circling the drain. Soon working people will be truly free.

Can you imagine, it is as easy as, loving one another.

Love and Peace,  Gregg