Category Archives: Labor Day

Complicated questions

Posted on 5 August 2008 by dlhitzeman

The worker’s union at the Tyson Foods plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee recently convinced the management at that plant to trade the paid holiday of Labor Day for the paid holiday of Eid al-Fitr. […] Continue reading →

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20060904 It Should Be Capitalism Day

Posted on 4 September 2006 by dlhitzeman

Today is the day that the United States celebrates labor, focusing on the contributions of the worker to the economy and the wellbeing of this nation. Yet, it seems that such a celebration, while laudable, somehow misses the point of the greater celebration that the United States should participate in, which is the celebration of a free market economy and republican democratic government that allows every American to achieve whatever status he is willing to work for- in other words, the celebration of capitalism. Continue reading →

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