Danny Westneat, Seattle Times - Just when it seemed the right wing couldn’t get any more divorced from reality around here, a local conservative group has launched a protest against what it sees as a pernicious cultural touchstone.
Yes, bittersweet old Labor Day — the first Monday in September, the holiday that’s been around for generations and is known to most non-ideologically blinkered Americans as an end-of-summer free day honoring all the hard work you put in the rest of the year.
But to the Freedom Foundation, a business-backed Olympia think tank, the day is evidence of the power of unions, which to members equals the decline of America. Rather than stoop to taking a union-backed day off, they plan to fight the power by ... working all day Monday instead!
“I can’t think of a problem in society that can’t be traced in some way back to the abuses of organized labor, so it would be hypocritical of us to take a day off on its behalf,” said Freedom Foundation CEO Tom McCabe, in announcing the “work-in.”
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Good ol' Tom McCabe. The drinking man's thinker at work.
"In a state of nature, the ones who work hardest have the most things to enjoy, but in our society, the ones who work the hardest have the fewest enjoyments, and those who have the most enjoyments work not at all. What a ridiculous and unhealthy situation." (Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish Tory legislator) (paraphrased)
Why is it that these outfits who call themselves "think tanks" don't seem to have a whole lot of thinking going on?
Mind you, they are tanks.
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