{"id":85915,"date":"2023-09-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85915"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:57:02","slug":"labor-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85915","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hope you&#8217;re enjoying your long weekend dedicated to a movement that mistook &#8220;two decades of inflated wages when the US was the world&#8217;s only functional economy, while Japan and Germany and South Korea were bombed flat and India and China were busy with socialist noodling and starving themselves back to the 1800s and unable to manufacture anything more complicated than motor scooters&#8221; for an eternal entitlement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they still do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The backbone of this economy isn\u2019t big corporations and businesses \u2013 it\u2019s workers. \u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Workers who deserve living wages, safe workplaces and the right to organize and form a union.<br>\u00a0<br>Happy Labor Day! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eg9Jrf8Hh5\">https:\/\/t.co\/eg9Jrf8Hh5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tina Smith (@SenTinaSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTinaSmith\/status\/1698701998047035470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator (gag) Smith:  go ahead.  Put a bunch of workers &#8211; with or without union cards &#8211; in an open field.  See if a factory or a workshop or, since you&#8217;re a DFLer and it&#8217;s your only perspective of the private sector, a coffee shop springs up around them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll wait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, tomorrow I&#8217;ll wait. I&#8217;ve got labor day plans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you&#8217;re enjoying your long weekend dedicated to a movement that mistook &#8220;two decades of inflated wages when the US was the world&#8217;s only functional economy, while Japan and Germany and South Korea were bombed flat and India and China were busy with socialist noodling and starving themselves back to the 1800s and unable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85916,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85915\/revisions\/85916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}