It got me thinking

With the US celebration (if you want to call it that) of Labor Day yesterday, it got me thinking about some random thoughts on labor and this country's trends in regard to the subject. While the original holiday was rushed through Congress in a mere 6 days in 1894 to attempt to reconcile with labor unions after the Pullman Strike.

So while so many consider it the end of the summer or the celebration of the American work ethic, it is in reality just another holiday created to appease a specific group. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good cookout or the last chance to swim at the club, but the thought of this being a great holiday of significance is wrong.

I started to think about what is going so wrong in this country of ours. Certainly the destruction of the traditional family is high on my list. I by no means am attempting to alienate any group of people, particularly those families that find it necessary to have both parents working. But we must think about what this does to our families as time goes on. We collectively let others raise our own children. And the worst part is that our government not only condones it, but supports it with our lousy tax structure.

Yes, there are tax breaks for day care of our children, but none for those parents that sacrifice (yes a strong but accurate term) in order to raise their own children. If our political system was what our fore fathers had truly envisioned, I think I would have to throw my hat in one of the rings. Everyday, we struggle with air pollution from too many vehicles on the road, high unemployment numbers and the like. But what if we had someone that was gutsy enough to lay out a plan to reward families where one spouse stayed home (yes, I'm not even advocating which spouse) so that a tighter family unit could exist. What would this mean?

Maybe I am living in a bubble, but I think this would mean less traffic nightmares at rush hour (after all wouldn't we eliminate a good portion of the number of vehicles on the road), and unemployment would be much lower if not nonexistent because the number of workers vying for jobs would be less. 

Again, just some random thoughts as we celebrated another Labor Day here in the states.

May God bless you and the United States of America.