End Labor Day, says Profit Council
by Tom Gallagher
September 5, 2011
The American Council on Profit today called upon federal and state governments to remove Labor Day from the nation’s list of official holidays. .... the Council’s Vice-President for Job Creation said, “As we all know, America’s need for increased productivity and job creation will require sacrifices from us all. To that end, we are today calling upon the President, Congress and the governors and legislatures of the fifty states to embark upon a process of reforming a tradition of excessive paid holidays that business leaders have identified as a roadblock to maintaining America’s preeminent position in an increasingly competitive global economy.
Calling the current list of ten paid federal holidays “an entitlement program that is simply out of step with current realities,” the Council unveiled a new report entitled “Job Killer: The Three Day Weekend,” the result of a year long study conducted by business and civic leaders “dedicated to the preservation of traditional American values.”
The group reached its conclusion as to which holiday should be the first to be eliminated only after the “most careful deliberation as to each holiday’s role in maintaining the nation’s job-creation ethos,” according to Gould. Calling the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays “essential reminders of the Judeo-Christian tradition and work ethic that has made America the economic engine that is the envy of the world,” he added that Washington’s Birthday or Presidents’ Day, Columbus Day and Thanksgiving Day are also “necessary reminders of the nation’s foundation and the generosity of the Native American population in providing the land that has made America a profit center unprecedented in world history.”
The report notes that the U.S. economy no longer finds its primary competitors in Europe, which it referred to as a “sclerotic, bureaucratic, entitlement-clogged continent of the past,” but rather in “the dynamic emerging economies of China, India and other countries not hamstrung by anti-growth regulation.” In that context, it reported that “we have identified unpaid holidays as an absolute job killer.”
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/05-4(The above article is satire, really good satire)
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