Labor Day 2010: Obama and Democrats spending like a child in a candy store

By Oscar Y. Harward

Labor Day 2010 is here. Labor Day is a federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September of each year. Labor Day is usually celebrated as the end of summer for working men and women. This year may be different with much higher than normal unemployed Americans.

This year, President Obama and the majority Democrat Party on Capitol Hill passed ObamaCare, although Americans said ‘NO’ to this legislation. President Obama and the majority Democrat Party merely decided to dispel all political polls and “cram ObamaCare down (y)our throats”. Many issues which Americans challenged the Democrat Party with on ObamaCare legislation, but denied by Democrat Party leaders, are now determined to be incorporated within this law.

Last year, President Obama and the majority Capitol Hill Democrat Party wrote and passed an $870 Billion “Stimulus” bill to “save or create jobs”; reversing unemployment. The results are that unemployment went up and many of the recipients were Labor Unions and/or many undefined fraudulent job creations. Under Obama and the Democrat Party plans as legislated, Labor Unions win while the taxpayers lose. Now, America is in deeper financial despair with no promising economic improvements to our national wealth.

Unemployment numbers of American rose to 9.6% in August 2010 as there is more labor availability than jobs’. Over the last four (4) decades, organized labor has been demanding and receiving higher wages and more benefits. These expansions of rising demands have reached a point in time where many American employers have become unable to compete in the world market economy. With the more and increasing demands, employers have been required to relocate to other areas across America, or perhaps another country, where less demands are required. In lieu of these transfers, employers have been forced to close the businesses, leaving the employees without a job. Manufacturing jobs are evaporating from our economy and it appears labor union leaders do not even care.

As Thomas Jefferson said,"[A] wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."