Labor Day

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

What? No comments from the right?

Dave

I cooked some chicken after working all day. I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day. I'm celebrating because it's the last holiday of the summer and represents the coming of my favorite time of year, namely, winter. I know you lefties are getting excited over your Democratic Convention. I will only be watching Pelosi and Biden, but will read Obama's transcript.

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Before any one forgets, when the government bailed out GM and Chryssler the union took a significant cut. When the government bailed out Wall Street the bankers gave themselves big bonuses.

Didn't the GM creditors also take a significant cut, but without the future guarantees given the unions? I think that the standard bankruptcy procedures should have occurred. What was done for GM cost somebody somewhere and was a terrible precedent to set.

[BlueStreak]

BH,

A friend informed me that Labor Day "...was created by appreciative employers. It has nothing to do with unions." I know where he got that; I own a radio too. That garbage came from Limbaugh and the crew at EIB, as most absurd rightwing lies do. (And I'm certain they got it from one of the Koch funded think tanks.).

I buried him under the same pile of links that I posted here. He hasn't responded since Friday. I'm pretty sure it's because he now knows that what he was told is a lie. One of many.

That was the point of this thread.

Dave

[ebacon]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

A friend informed me that Labor Day "...was created by appreciative employers. It has nothing to do with unions." . . .

Until recently I was under the same impression but arrived at it on my own. That's what happens when I think.