Labor day and loser's weekend

It's Labor day and it's back to school time! An all-round celebration of loserdom, if you ask me.

Most of the world celebrates the accomplishments of organized labor on May Day. Here in North America we like to wait a little longer, and I think it's because of the dearth of organized labor's accomplishments here in the Western Hemisphere.

Go to Western Europe, and just about every working schmuck has six weeks holidays and a living wage. Run those concepts by your Wal-Mart manager!

It isn't Wal-Mart's fault, of course. Right back at the beginning of Labor Day, President Grover Cleveland knew he didn't want American workers to be tied into some commie-ass holiday for organized labor. That's got COMMIE writ all over it in big block letters. "Workers of the world unite" and all that shit. Well, we're not gonna have any of that, thank you very much. So he decided it would be safer if we celebrated May day some other time. Hence Labor Day.

So we didn't go down that socialist road. And we haven't. And have a look around. How has that been working out for us?

Organized labor has been up against the ropes for forty years. At least our children still have some hope, and that's really what this week is all about. Happy hopeful children skipping off to school...

OK, I'll admit it; they're not happy and they're not hopeful. And they have reason not to be. In the USA today  the educational system produces results that put the US somewhere in the middle of the also-rans.

In Canada, the results are a little better, but the leadership class, the folks who call the shots, (ya, of course it's a democracy, but there are still the FOLKS WHO CALL THE SHOTS) want us to adopt more of the American model.

This of course is not surprising. Our leaders, Big Steve and company, look around the world and try to figure out who they should ingratiate themselves with. Finland? Singapore? Or the really big dog snoozing just on the other side of the 49th parallel, one open eye on our water and our oil. So of course we aren't going to model our education system after those that work. We're gonna bust the teacher unions and bring in lots of charter schools, because that's what's working so well in the USA!

So the children are back at school. For what? We don't really care, as long as the little shits aren't underfoot 24/7 anymore like they have been the last two months.

 It's a loser's weekend.