Even if I've always felt a special kinship to the boy from Oklahoma for reasons I've never figured out, today I got hit with a notion and when I stopped tapping the keys this was what showed up. I'll openly admit that what spewed forth was greatly influenced by reading, "Bound for Glory" and "Seeds of Man" over 30 some years ago. Here it is for what it's worth.
"Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country."
That's the skinny from the grub'ment of the U-S of A. Right, out there in the ether fur ever one of us to see. That's what them in the know call O-fishy-al, the straight truth, the real deal, just how it is. Not much in the way o' history or background, purt near the bare basics, enough to pass on the general idea.
Whut, whut, whut? you might say. How can somethin' so dang important be reduced, boiled down, render in da 3 dozen and a dime of words and not much more impressive if ya do out the a-rith-mo-tic and figur up the letters.
I have heard jingles with more words and we know how important they are. As the off spring of sons and daughters of hard livin' and the grandson of a hardworkin' grocer and a man with barely 8 years a schoolin' who supported his family of 5 by walkin' the pipeline up toward Bowie one week and out near Ranger the next I have always thought I knew the value of hard work, nose to the grindstone and all such as that.
They may a not been Union folks but they sure as hell wurnt scabs neither. My own in-tie-lect-ual mother taught me early that folks what did the work deserved equal and fair pay. She often wondered out loud if our society needs both doctors and garbagemen to survive maybe the notion of a little less difference in the do-ray-me they each take to home at the end o' the day might not otter be such a gi-huge-ic difference. Might just be something to it. I knowed in my life I seen the trash man go without a doctor lots longer than I ever seen a doctor go without someone to a haul off his garbage which he can barely stand to admit he is responsible for.
Sadly, when you look around they's lots more have-nots these days than haves and ain't no way in H-E double hockey sticks is you goint to convince me and most other hard workers that those haves done more or worked harder for what they got, that I just barely have.
My point ends up being that there is many of us that works more and takes home less than any kind a people around. Ain't splittin' it up 99% to 1% I am just sayin' don't take a rocket scientist to figger out just who is doing the real work. Those that work mostly make for those with the coin.
If we had no workers, tradesman, teachers, public workers, your fireman, your law, soldiers (LABORERS) wouldn't nuthin' much would git done and when the bankers and politicians had to dump there own trash cans and chamber pots they might just do some figgering and see IT TAKES ALL OF US TO MAKE THIS THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS AND TO GET THE JOB DONE.
So, a tip a the hat to anybody does an honest daze work, no matter how, nor where, be they banker, boot maker, baker, bar keep or preacher, The worker makes the world go round and round.
Let's sing a song of celebration and here is one of them links to a place with some good songs for the workers of the world......
the list might just be a relic in the days of instant news( compiled last year ) but it is a better list a songs that my tired brain coulda come up with.
http://www.cliffviewpilot.com/good-life/55-in-tune/2756-top-20-labor-day-songs
