May Day Occupiers and Workers of the World, Get Over It!

My husband, God bless him, keeps hoping I will become a Democrat.  Every time I go on a rant about some short sighted, vote losing, lunatic fringe pacifying action taken by the Republicans he gets a hopeful gleam in his eye.  He starts talking in tentative tones about what he sees as the laudable attitudes of his own party.  He forwards me columns from his favorite liberal columnists in the New York Times.  I read the columns, nod and smile during his evangelistic monologues and continue to vote Republican.

One of the biggest reasons I continue as a staunch (if moderate) Republican is watching the idiots in the Occupy (insert demon of choice) crowd.  These people are uniformly spoiled brats who have been given too much and required to do too little.  When I was going to college on a $5/week food budget I didn’t have money to travel to New York, buy a Northface sleeping bag, and eat take-out.  I was either studying during the school year or working at any crap job I could find when we were on break.  Evidently these snots don’t have to go to class and have disposable income available for recreational demonstrating.  So on this May Day, celebrating the socialist fixation on, “workers” of the world it is not surprising to find the great unwashed yelling for more hand outs and less responsibility.  They have been taught that they are due this.  Instead of Rene Descartes, “I think, therefore I am.” they are all over, “I am therefore I deserve.”

 It is sad but true that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, leading to the repression and failed economic experiment called communism, sounds like a good idea to these educationally stunted fools.   The Nanny State is the modern day version of, “bread and circuses.”  It appeals to the basest of human emotions.  Democrats promote this because they like the idea of making enemies of businesses and friends of government.  They want the population to be indebted to a central government so we happily render unto Caesar all of our treasure, assuming that they will take care of us in return.  Sadly, if you tell most people that they should be able to live exactly as they wish, pay for nothing, take what they like and give nothing back, they will nod their heads and say, “Yep, sounds good to me.” 

If these people are really in favor of workers of the world rising up and uniting as an all-powerful force, maybe they need to rethink what a worker is.  I come from a long line of poor immigrant farmers who could read and write, but that was about it.   My father was a dairyman, a skilled worker with an eighth grade education.  I was a school teacher with two master’s degrees.  Each of us used hard work and the best education we could get ahead.  We expected nothing from anyone other than respect for who we were.  The point is, some people work with their hands, others their heads, some with their talent, others with their money.  It doesn’t make any difference.  You work with what you have and are willing to use.  Someone who labors with his brain is no less worthy of our respect and protection than someone who labors with his hands.  Those who risk their money and skill at entrepreneurship are also workers, worthy of respect and protection.

Those who think that physical labor and low wages make them more worthy than those who use mental or entrepreneurial labor, reaping higher rewards, are hypocrites.  They are also wrong.  All workers are important.  But none have the right to interfere with the effort and improvement of their fellow laborers. 

Stop socialism and keep the faith.