It's International Workers' Day. The US government can ignore the historic contribution of the labor movement all it wants, but to then ask those same working class people for "loyalty" is a slap in the face. Let's set the record straight: the US government never did anything for working class people without a fight.
2007-04-25 08:09:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
You celebrate what you want. I'll celebrate what I want.
I celebrate America and my loyalty to it on May 1. And every day.
Look at labor conditions in most of the rest of the world and you'll see my point.
2007-04-25 08:15:52 · answer #1 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, silly me......I've never heard of this before.
The working class people of this country have fought long and hard for every scrap that came our way. It angers me now the ones who have benefitted from it have decided to toss the American worker to the wind to go back to the cheap labor and unfair labor practices and use other people to keep their coffers full. Not to mention allowing a massive influx of people who never had decent wages or anything to be allowed to swarm this country and undermine decades and decades of hard work.
2007-04-25 08:58:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
read the question people. he said "without a fight". i agree. people have to fight to get what we want. the government don't just offer us things. our working conditions are good because people before us made it that way. i'm sure the conditions in the US weren't great at the start. if other leaders of governments cared about their countries as much as they care about the money in their pockets, i'm sure their countries would benefit as well. take south america for instance, you have to pay when you leave the country. you think the kids pulling rocks from a river with oxen get any of that money???? prolly not.
2007-04-25 08:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by Tammy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never heard of it. Sorry but unions of the past helped the workers but today's unions are a joke and only work for themselves.
For example, when the grocery stores were on strike, the employees ended up getting only what the stores offered to begin with but they didn't get paid so ultimately they got screwed by the unions.
2007-04-25 08:14:38 · answer #4 · answered by JessicaRabbit 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't the US already honor it's own Labor Day?
But, you're right, it is absurd to ask people to be loyal to thier own country a single day out of the year.
2007-04-25 08:14:22 · answer #5 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Until the US Government is Loyal to it's legal working people, I won't hesitiate to blow it off.
2007-04-25 08:22:29 · answer #6 · answered by Spring loaded horsie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you got that right. but tell me, does an illegal have more rights then an American or a legal immigrant? don't think about the skin color, just think about the status of the person. legal immigrants and american born citizens v illegal.
2007-04-25 08:24:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That isn't true.
Workers vote.
2007-04-25 09:44:45 · answer #8 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.
2007-04-25 08:14:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
agreed
2007-04-25 08:12:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋