by David Safier
Unlike the windy bloggers here at BfA, Tedski over at Rum, Romanism and Rebellion is often a man of few, well chosen words. This post is a gem, quoted here in full:
Hat tip to Talking Points Memo for finding this labor day gem on Eric Cantor’s Twitter feed:
Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.
I guess it’s up to each individual American to find their own meaning in our national holidays, but thinking Labor Day is about celebrating business owners is a little like saying that the Fourth of July is about honoring the British.
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Laughable to anyone with sense, no? It seems almost incredible to me, but then I haven’t been back in Arizona since early June, and in New York you just don’t hear anything like that.
But anti-labor sentiment seems rampant in Arizona. In May when I went to Walgreen’s near my house in Pinal County and was harangued by an anti-union diatribe by the cashier. (I made an innocuous comment about something once being useful to me and now wasn’t, and she began, “Just like unions. They started out to help people and now they are just ruining our country” and went on from there until I was able to leave.
It so annoyed me and got my day off to a bad start. I should have been able just to pass it out of my mind, but I kept going back to it and becoming more and more ticked off, and so when I did get to a computer, I went to the Walgreens site and wrote a calm, reasonable complaint saying that I didn’t want to be talked to about labor unions or any political issues (even if the employee had said something I agree with, a Walgreens cash register isn’t the place for that, either, and it must annoy conservatives). The next day, to my shock, I got a call from the store manager, highly apologetic, saying I wasn’t the first person who had complained about a person — he was pretty sure who it was — and the employee would be instructed not to discuss unions again. I thanked him and said I hoped the employee would not be punished. She probably needs a union, even though she doesn’t know it.