Monday, March 30, 2015
Gracing Work
With All Due Speed
Many prevailed on Senator Harley Eps
to introduce the bill asking, as a Social
Good, for the Non-Working Class to
work an hour a week. It passed.
The particular task ordained was to
schedule the off-time of the Working
Class. Thus making such leisure richer
and more fulfilling.
Not arduous, since computer programs
existed to do just that.
So the new job consisted in pressing a
button or so.
But, some of the NWs came in contact with
workers, and requested a sort of hazard pay.
The flat fee for NWs was 500 an hour.
Virulently anti-union, of course, they formed
one, and their contract was to be larded
with clauses begatting clauses as to family
leave, holidays, sick time etc.
Their first demand was a doubling of the
flat fee. So, 1000 to work an hour a week.
Eps and colleagues had enough at that point,
and legislation cancelling the law sailed through.
And, farsighted on this rare occasion, putting
aside up to two hundred million for the expected
lawsuits.
Labels: American Aristocrats, anti-labor, chutzpa, demands of labor, labor contract, lawsuit, social engineering, Union, work
Saturday, February 14, 2015
The Good Republican
Lies?
Rhetorical exaggerations I admit to.
And flourishes. Old-School there, I’m afraid.
You point especially to my Labor Day speech.
And scathingly see me as Republican, of course,
thus avowed enemy of the working person.
Some are, and very clearly. Ask them, they’ll
tell you. They love to! Wallow in their own
poisonous spit!
And you claim that we’ve destroyed unions?
Lots of factors have militated against unions,
though we’ve been the most important.
But I’m, individually, very Pro-Labor. I believe the
present dynamic is sick, and toxic to the country.
I believe, mostly, in a strong safety net.
The billionaire supplies his own, hedging his bets.
The worker bets his labor, and must be allowed to
hedge also.
Why haven’t you heard this before?
A hand clamps my mouth, known as Party.
If they turn off the cash spigot, I lose.
And, as the wilfully naive Supreme Court has
allowed obscene amounts, I can’t fall behind.
Hey! Everybody’s job contains terrible contradictions
and anomalies. Why should mine be different?
They’ll smear me RINO?
They can do much worse!
“Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.” ?
And some horrible, dreadful, degrading things they are!
Why don’t you hear more from me? Why don’t I take
more of a stand?
Politics is incremental. And the parties have even blatantly
switched in history. If we live long enough, we’ll see
Republicans as the liberal party, and Democrats as the
stick-in-the-mud, and thoroughly despicable, Conservatives.
When I can fight, I will. When I can’t, I’ll talk the crap they wish.
A sort of partial and quite unsatisfactory answer?
That’s me. And you. And everybody.
Hey! They hanged Nathan Hale! “My only regret is that I have
but one life to give to my country.” Tremendous!
But he wasn’t always that Nathan Hale.
Labels: anti-labor, Conservative, Democrat, Emerson, Labor, Labor Day, liberal, realpolitic, Republican, Safety Net
Friday, February 18, 2011
Legislators On the Ground
-How odd!
-That from the furthest edge of weird!
-Proudly! I mean that teachers are demonstrating.
-Why can’t they learn their place and relax enough
to enjoy being sodomized?
-Governor might call National Guard.
-A few corpses'd be good, but not martyrs.
-Some cops and firemen could picket in sympathy.
-Adding to the list of former Americans? The shame!
-Don't look anywhere for patriotism today.
-Blessedly, though, Labor is finished in this state!
-It's God's way.
-Well, we’ve destroyed enough lives for now.
Let's leave a few on the table.
-Agreed! I need ice cream.
-How odd!
-That from the furthest edge of weird!
-Proudly! I mean that teachers are demonstrating.
-Why can’t they learn their place and relax enough
to enjoy being sodomized?
-Governor might call National Guard.
-A few corpses'd be good, but not martyrs.
-Some cops and firemen could picket in sympathy.
-Adding to the list of former Americans? The shame!
-Don't look anywhere for patriotism today.
-Blessedly, though, Labor is finished in this state!
-It's God's way.
-Well, we’ve destroyed enough lives for now.
Let's leave a few on the table.
-Agreed! I need ice cream.
Labels: anti-labor, Republican, Wisconsin
