Greetings good citizen, Happy Memorial Day! I'd go on a tear about how half of us have no clue what we're supposed to be celebrating (besides this being one of the few holidays that survived the beancounter's axe...if you don't work in hospitality, emergency services or retail!)
If you work in the 24/7 world of healthcare or 'basic services' there is no such thing as a 'Holiday'. You'll get time off alright but it probably won't be 'family time' [depending on where you sit on the totem pole.]
I'm sure I'm not the only one that noticed we have a ton of days dedicated to the 'worship' of our 'Warriors'. Patriot's Day, Flag Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Armed Services Day, Veterans Day (which used to be Armistice Day.)
Today's modern warriors have been deployed more than at any other time in our nation's history...and you can only wonder what the unemployment rate would be if those 90,000 soldiers weren't being 'rotated' through our latest exercise in futility.
Then there is the other, off the books, jobs program...the Alphabet soup of 'government contractors' that offer employment to soldiers facing abject poverty and destitution when they finish their 'hitch'.
Naturally, that's not what the politicians or the Capitalist wants you to 'remember' on Memorial Day. You're supposed to be paying homage to the brave men and women who gave their lives so you could be exploited and victimized with impunity!
In a world where there are not enough jobs [never mind food] for everyone that needs both, China has decided to 'relax' their 'One Child' policy and what are Chinese parents who are a little 'late to the party' doing?
Break out the test tubes baby!
Yup, past your prime? IVF to the rescue... [said the man who half of his neices and nephews came from the same place...]
Not throwing stones good citizen, I understand the 'biological imperative'...I also understand who benefits from a 'slack' labor market, the capitalist buyer of labor! Over population is an imperative for the capitalist.
Between the suspicious fire that burned through the Alberta tar sands region of Canada (now fuel prices are on the rise again, surprise, surprise!) to the failed 'Arab Spring' that led to the failed Occupy what Movement.
What were we supposed to be remembering again?
Seriously good citizen, those in charge prefer the fact that most of you wouldn't remember your own name if your boss didn't keep shouting it at you! [No, you don't remember being named 'idiot' but you sure get called that a lot, don't you? Worse, usually you get called that for stuff HE made YOU do!
But you need to eat and like living indoors, those are the things you're thankful for. Maybe you should marvel for a moment that a whole pile of people that died just so a capitalist would be 'free' to put your nuts in a vise!
Let's run THAT up the flagpole and see who salutes!
Happy Memorial Day good citizen!
Gegner
If you work in the 24/7 world of healthcare or 'basic services' there is no such thing as a 'Holiday'. You'll get time off alright but it probably won't be 'family time' [depending on where you sit on the totem pole.]
I'm sure I'm not the only one that noticed we have a ton of days dedicated to the 'worship' of our 'Warriors'. Patriot's Day, Flag Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Armed Services Day, Veterans Day (which used to be Armistice Day.)
Today's modern warriors have been deployed more than at any other time in our nation's history...and you can only wonder what the unemployment rate would be if those 90,000 soldiers weren't being 'rotated' through our latest exercise in futility.
Then there is the other, off the books, jobs program...the Alphabet soup of 'government contractors' that offer employment to soldiers facing abject poverty and destitution when they finish their 'hitch'.
Naturally, that's not what the politicians or the Capitalist wants you to 'remember' on Memorial Day. You're supposed to be paying homage to the brave men and women who gave their lives so you could be exploited and victimized with impunity!
In a world where there are not enough jobs [never mind food] for everyone that needs both, China has decided to 'relax' their 'One Child' policy and what are Chinese parents who are a little 'late to the party' doing?
Break out the test tubes baby!
Yup, past your prime? IVF to the rescue... [said the man who half of his neices and nephews came from the same place...]
Not throwing stones good citizen, I understand the 'biological imperative'...I also understand who benefits from a 'slack' labor market, the capitalist buyer of labor! Over population is an imperative for the capitalist.
Between the suspicious fire that burned through the Alberta tar sands region of Canada (now fuel prices are on the rise again, surprise, surprise!) to the failed 'Arab Spring' that led to the failed Occupy what Movement.
What were we supposed to be remembering again?
Seriously good citizen, those in charge prefer the fact that most of you wouldn't remember your own name if your boss didn't keep shouting it at you! [No, you don't remember being named 'idiot' but you sure get called that a lot, don't you? Worse, usually you get called that for stuff HE made YOU do!
But you need to eat and like living indoors, those are the things you're thankful for. Maybe you should marvel for a moment that a whole pile of people that died just so a capitalist would be 'free' to put your nuts in a vise!
Let's run THAT up the flagpole and see who salutes!
Happy Memorial Day good citizen!
Gegner
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