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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Celebrate Labor Day By Celebrating the Worker -- 2010

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND.


DON'T FORGET TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO HONOR THE WORKER.

These are the people who fix our roofs, repair our leaks, put out our fires, save our lives, build our shelters,  teach our children (so far as school boards allow them to), build our roads and bridges, grow and harvest our food, stock our shelves, keep our streets safe, maintain our parks. The list goes on and on.

These are the people who run America and keep it running.












I want his job.

19 comments:

  1. Leslie, not only do I agree, but let me tale it one step further and also honor the clerks, the secretaries, and all the other people who are not always thought of as 'labor' types. And lets also honor Leslie. who labors daily, out of the goodness of her heart, to find and share the truth.

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  2. Just don't call an IT office looking for help on your PC, it definitely will not be an American worker :-)

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  3. I agree totally, TC. I just couldn't list them all. In the top pic there is a clerical looking type in the bottom left image. :-) And you're too sweet with the compliments. This is a labor of love, pure and simple. And you have no room to talk with that thankless and valuable analysis of the Constitution.

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  4. boomer: That's because they're in India. I thought of that which is why I didn't include "American worker."

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  5. We have the greatest workers on earth! God Bless the American worker! (and bring our jobs back!)

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  6. Wish I the pics were large enough to read. What is the slogan on the 4th one?

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  7. Sorry dmarks. Got these off of Google images under various headings. I enlarged them before putting them up thinking readers could left click to enlarge but no go.

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  8. Great Holiday posting Leslie!

    So true, So true, So true indeed Grrrlll!!

    I dont know how many time's I had to stress that to folk's in daily life ... like constantly! From teen's to the elder's ... I alway's hear from folk's ... what this corporation or that politician or their church or the mega bank is going to do ... to them or accepting them,their app's, their approval is alway's sought out, etc ... etc ... ad nauseum. Then these whining f'n politician's telling us were going to Hell in a handbasket if we dont bail out all the investment banker's of the global community, etc. I NEVER SEEN so much pathetic ass kissing in my year's as the 21st century ... it just make's me want to slap the shit out of some folk's seeing their passiveness .... and saying "Wake the Hell up man!!" NONE of these goddamn mega instiutution's do a goddamn thing for us ... and WITHOUT US ... they have no empire's!!Their not even creative for Pete's Sake!! They buy all their idea's, create nothing ... do nothing ...etc ... and we call them "elitist's"? Believe me ... I know what a true "elitist" is ... and I see more elite percentage wise in our working and professional sector's ... than in their whole upper management ... themselves and their whole f'n inbred familia's! All we do is let them all dictate to us, which in turn make's us dumber, and more frail, and more dependent. Mark my word here ... the day will come, and sooner than we think ... when people are going to wake up, and abandon them. Elitist's? .... my ASS!! HAIL AMERICA!!

    Excellent Post!!

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  9. RC: True. I wonder who people call when their plumbing backs up or their roof caves in? A major corporation? Banker? Oil company? Fox?

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  10. tn: just curious. I assumed that one is migrant workers or something like that.

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  11. dmarks: The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan Latino organization affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the Change to Win ...

    You can relax now.

    TC: Is your face red? ; )

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  12. Dmarks,

    The LCLAA believes that the minimum wage keeps corporations from creating jobs....

    That is what her shirt says..."Give Me A Job Not Minimum Wage!" :)

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  13. I'm all for keeping a good thought for endangered species.

    Seriously, I think we all tend to take working people and what they do for granted. We shouldn't. Much necessary work is neither exciting nor particularly satisfying, yet if it wasn't being done life in America would be greatly diminished.

    When I was in AF basic training, our training instructor told us we were to show respect for people working on the base, civilian and military alike; that the guys doing lawn and road work, or cutting hair, for example, were our employers and part of the reason we have a military. And besides, he said, anyone doing an honest day's work, whatever that work is, deserves respect as a matter of common decency.

    I had never quite heard that take on things, but it made sense. So many years later and after a lot of life experience, it makes even more sense.

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  14. SW - "And besides, he said, anyone doing an honest day's work, whatever that work is, deserves respect as a matter of common decency."

    Most people don't even think think that way these days. And I'm not sure your training instructor wasn't a little unusual even then. We live in a cold rude world these days.

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  15. Tao: If you insist :)

    I was really wondering what the shirt did say (having an interest in learning more about migrant workers.etc)

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  16. Looks like LIUNAI, which comes up zero on Google.

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  17. dmarks! As half blind as I am and in dire need of cataract surgery, even I can see it's LCLAA. Try that one and you'll have more success I think. There is plenty on migrant workers and their labor movement. Try Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers as well. Hope this helps.

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