The Holiday Weekend And A Rant

Labor Day Weekend

The labor unions will march this Labor Day as they always do.  Many persons in the USA are members of a labor union.....our family is certainly not excluded.  Without the protection of Labor Unions, many jobs would be lost and wages would most likely be lower than what would be expected for the particular job.  Some persons don't like labor unions, while others do.  But if a person has never had any exposure or ever been a member of a labor union, it is not exactly a good respresentation when the person says a labor union is not good.  It's an opinion only and it can be controversial.  Members of labor unions are proud people and take their jobs seriously.

Just stop to consider these things.  If you are a management person you most likely aren't a member of a labor union and might not even like labor unions at your business.....you sit in a concrete building on a chair at a desk.  Who pored the concrete in your building .... most likely a laborer who was a member of a labor union.  Who made your desk and chair.....it could have been in China, but probably at an USA factory with labor union workers.  You drive home on a highway which has a new surface....who did that surface?  Most likely a company which hires labor union workers. 

On Labor Day, you will see many cars on the road going here and there.  Chances are the majority of them might be from factories which hire labor union workers.  You stop at a classic car showing of 1960 and older cars.....no doubt these were made by labor union workers.

You stop at the local grocery store to pick up bread and milk and canned goods.  Who do you suppose made those, or packaged those grocery items.....most likely labor union workers.

It's hard to not like labor unions, because they are a defined part of our everyday lives.  Love them or hate them....it doesn't matter, you will still have contact with something handled or made or built by a labor union worker. 

In their parades, they will wear their T-Shirts proudly and will walk with dignity, all the while whooping and making happy noise, laughing and waving and even throwing candy to the kids.....because they have kids of their own who depend on the living from a labor union job.  They are proud they do manual work.

Esprit de corps......they are banded together as a group in the labor parade.  The common spirit exists in this group of persons because they have a lot in common and the morale runs true.  They are the "Majority" in the work place.  A proud labeling. 

This may have been the most controversial subject I have ever written about in this blog, but it needed to be said.....I am a common folk, married to a labor union worker with a son-in-law who also is a labor union worker.....our family livihoods depend on labor union wages.  WE ARE PROUD FOLKS and not ashamed of manual labor. 

Celebrate, have fun, cook out, watch parades, go swimming for the last time, eat hardy, party but don't be a naysayer.....

Thoughts For The Today And The Weekend

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest

 but the blessing of earth is toil.

--Henry van Dyke

God sells all things at the price of labor.

--Leonardo de Vinci

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

--John Locke

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity -

Posterity has done nothing for us.

--Abraham Lincoln

Today as a grandmother, my heart is breaking.  Yesterday my granddaughter was diagnosed with spina bifada.  She is age 13 and has apparently had the condition but was undiagnosed even after spending many days in the hospital at various times.   No one suspected and no one did the x-rays needed for diagnosis.   She has continually suffered from the symptoms... severe pain, bowel problems and others but continued her life. Her pain had become terrible while playing her favorite sports.....she was a star softball player, and was on several local all star teams.  Normally she played on the Riverton team.  Last spring she was selected as a cheerleader.  Now that will most likely not be possible unless the doctors can control the increasing pain.  She wants to continue sports if she can.

She is the daughter of a Desert Storm veteran who came back with rashes and many other medical conditions from the shots which were given prior to going as well as the exposure to severe conditions in the Desert Storm/Gulf War.  There are documented cases that many children of these Veterans are suffering from severe disabilities and medical conditions, but the government just can't seem to admit fault and the affected children are ignored. 

As a grandmother my heart breaks.  Lerin, my beautiful granddaughter, didn't do anything to deserve this.    But, she must suffer the consequences of war and the pain of being told her life is not what she thought it would be when she grows up. She cried all of yesterday.  Unfair.  Rant over!  But the heavy heart continues.


I most likely will not be posting until next Tuesday.  Thanks for reading the blog.  Comments are welcome.