George W. Bush salutes innovators of labor on Labor Day

[yurbud]

My fellow Americans, today is the day we have traditionally celebrated those who have helped make our country great through innovations in the use of labor, which means workers.

We salute those who invented the temp agency, so offices could hire an endless stream of temporary employees, thereby avoiding costly seniority based raises.

We salute companies like Walmart, who have blazed a trail in avoiding providing benefits by by scheduling employees for less hours than the minimum for providing benefits--then making them work off the clock to make up the difference.

We salute the farmers and Beverly Hills housewives who realized that they could avoid Social Security taxes and pay lower wages if had illegal immigrants pick their berries, clean their houses, and raise their children.

Most of all, we salute those who realized that not only manufacturing jobs but customer service can be outsourced to India, China, and Bangladesh and done for a fraction of the wages. The savings are well worth the occasional complaint that no one can understand the Bengali accented English of those who answer your customer service line.

With innovations like these, we have made great progress in reducing workers' expectations of a living wage, employer provided health care, and upward mobility. We have also protected the backbone of America, those individuals with family fortunes of over $250 million, from paying more in taxes than they do for green fees and cigars.

Without such innovations, we would be in danger of a growing middle class that would not only demand good education for their children and health care for their families, but would actually expect to have a voice in how our country is run.

In the book of Genesis, God curses man to make his living by the sweat of his brow and to toil all his days. The innovators in the use of labor have helped make that vision a reality.

[soup]

1. Imagine how much better off would we all be if his mother hadn't

gone into labor.

[Tyranny_R_US]

2. *snip* *chop* *chop* *waaaaa*....

59 years later.... :)

[durablend]

4. We would've been even better off...

If they'd invented CONDOMS (and daddy had used one)

[Mr_Spock]

3. lol

It is what he'd like to say. :D