Labor Day

The irony of this holiday in this particular point in history did not escape this wonder woman. No, in fact it hit her like a jackknife to the chest.

We take aside one Monday in the year to celebrate the greatness of our own workforce. What it takes to run one of the world's largest economic powers is a workforce that doesn't mind that they get less vacation time than other nations, or that their prices are significantly higher, or their lives are literally bought and sold to insurance companies, conglomerates, and/or their place of work. No, they trudge on. They literally buy into the system that keeps some in the lowest of the low, and others in the highest of the high. Now more than ever.

As of today, this wonder woman's state unemployment is at 11.9%. A little more than a tenth of the population is trying desperately to find work, and to no success. We are the working horse of our own economy and reaping no rewards for it. Grossly over qualified citizens are applying for jobs that used to only require a high school diploma. Now they require a masters.

So I feel as though a small rant on the day in which we celebrate our own toil, industry, drudgery, effort and menial work when we are denied as much seemed appropriate. For many of us this is not a day off, simply one more day without a paycheck.

Unemployed, WW